What if you close it really hard like a diesel piston? Surely that’s deserving of a bang!
Comment on what really happened to the Titanic
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 weeks agoYes.
Also, this wouldn’t produce an explosion. There is a MASSIVE difference between supercritical and bomb levels of prompt critical.
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You’d have to use enough energy to compress it a lot. The kinds of energy where you wouldn’t even need the core there to utterly obliterate something the size of the Titanic.
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You greatly underestimate my strength. *smashes fingertips between Demon Core halves*
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What about the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Sorry Marvin, but nuclear armament is a far cry from Earth shattering!
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You forgot about Project Sundial
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Ideas are not the same as possibilities.
Also, the Earth takes hits bigger than that. Even the Tonga eruption was about 10 megatons of energy.
The Chicxulub impact is estimated to be around 100 trillion tons of tnt equivalent. 10000x bigger than Sundial was even proposed.
Chicxulub did not shatter the Earth.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That was a fusion device though
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re not thinking big enough. ;)
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Nah, there’s literally not enough nukes or even fissile material to make an Earth-shattering bomb. It takes a lot of energy to shatter something the size of Earth.
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 weeks ago
Maybe it was in a Vegetable Glycerin reference.
Napster153@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The reactor didn’t have a pointy tip so it bounced off the ground.