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Sometimes, you gotta stick to theory if you dont want a resonance cascade in your hands. (lemmy.world)

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[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only the G-Man (and arguably Breen) understood what was about to happen. The rest of the scientists were doing the research they were told to. Freeman just happened to be on lab duty that day. One of the guards says "looks like you're in the barrel today,” which is a reference to a dirty old sailor’s joke, implying people in the lab take turns doing grunt work in the HEV suit.

If Freeman was the fall guy, it wasn't by other scientists trying to place blame on him, it was the G-Man manipulating events so that the cascade would happen on Freeman's day in the suit.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

Only the G-Man (and arguably Breen) understood what was about to happen.

I agree that G-Man knew what was going to happen, but I don't agree that all the scientists were naive. At least a couple of them knew the risks.

I'm pretty sure there is a sound file where a scientist says something like:

"If it goes wrong then this could happen. ... But it's highly unlikely."

it wasn’t by other scientists trying to place blame on him,

Totally. I don't think any of the other scientists were malicious.