ShaggyBlarney

@ShaggyBlarney@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody knows Marie Curie was a woman and woman’s contributions to science just don’t exist or even register. Women scientists are literally the devil. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely agree. It was used in To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. I can’t think of many other works that use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Others have answered you question about non-directed nuclear blasts in space already. They don’t work the same way as in atmosphere; lack the blast or the thermal heat, etc. Enter the Casaba-Howitzer, a theoretical nuclear shaped charge that shoots a directed plasma stream at near light speed. This idea came about in the 60s along with nuclear blast propulsion.