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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      Rhodes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, most famous for his most excellent book The Making Of The Atomic Bomb.

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      I asked if he needed any slides prepared (outside of a title slide I made) and first he said no, not really – but then he changed his mind.pic.twitter.com/mNvuLWdQ6a

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      He asked me to take a map of Google campus area, and overlay two precise circles on top: one 7.2 miles in diameter, the other 9.2 miles.

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      He said nothing else, and of course I kind of knew where this was going…

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      …although I wasn’t quite prepared where during his talk he just went, “This is the blast epicenter of a 300 kiloton-weapon…

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      …burst 1,500 feet directly above us.”pic.twitter.com/FlRiWB1g1F

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      “Everything within this circle would be totally destroyed, except heavily-reinforced concrete buildings,” of which Google campus had none.

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      The second circle, at 9.2 miles of diameter? “Fire damage. The *worst* fire damage. Everything organic in this area would be burned to ash.”pic.twitter.com/CQwFmzpUib

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      “The winds at the edge of the fire would be blowing at about 400 or 500 miles per hour, and the air would be many degrees of boiling point.”

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    10. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      So, yeah… not very often you get to made a slide that depicts all of your co-workers being killed in a blast of a nuclear explosion. :·/

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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      (If you’re somewhat morbidly curious to see more, that whole talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYS1_7jgHaI …)

      10:00 PM - 4 Jul 2017
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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 4 Jul 2017
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          …and there was also this one slide where my computer just gave up and fell off a podium, but that’s a whole different story. :·)

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          I wish I could like twice the tweet about the image glitch showing up on screen - I feel sorry for the AV guy.

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