I’ve said for years that we need one more episode of Celebrity Deathmatch between Delores Umbridge and Kai Winn

You are, again, orders of magnitude off, and have no clue what you are talking about. I’m an actual nuclear power scientist, so yeah. I’m gonna ignore all the lies you tell from now on.

Sure. I’m gonna believe you, a rando on the net, rather than my experience as a Navy Nuclear Power Program Electronics Technician Instructor.

Fuck off. You don’t have any clue about what you are talking about.

Deep core mining is the real tech we need. Blow up a 10 gigaton device on the surface and you’ll melt a hemisphere of the upper layer of the crust and create a 30 mile diameter crater. Bury that baby 5,000 miles into the planet and blow it up? The Earth is gonna need help opening it’s ketchup bottles for a few billion years until it reforms, potentially around the moon which I suppose would actually stabilize the moon’s orbit, but would probably make neo-Earth uninhabitable.

If you blow it up on the surface or in the atmosphere, sure. Blow up a 10 gigaton device, which we absolutely can make and have the materials to do so, buried as deep as you can possibly get it, so about 1.5-1.6 miles in the crust, and you’re gonna wreck a significant portion of a hemisphere.

Especially since U-238 is one of the most abundant elements in the crust. Literally every single shovel full of dirt that you pick up has several hundred to several million atoms of U-238

Project Sundial wasn’t just theoretical. We had the ability, the materials, and the technical knowledge to build it. The political will faltered and blinked.

You know how you can absolutely verify that? We built it in thousands of different bombs rather than just one big one.

If we had made a 10 gigaton device where it was supposed to be located in eastern California, or western Nevada, blowing that up would have created a massive crater that probably would have measured at least 30 miles in diameter, and all of the US would die in the first blast. Normally when talking about nuclear or fusion weapons I would call the US citizens the lucky ones, because we wouldn’t have to live with the consequences. In this case, all of humanity is lucky, and basically no one survives the blast shockwave. The shockwave would circle the globe multiple dozens of times. No one that isn’t in a fortified bunker will survive the 1000 mph winds that would cause. Those winds would sandblast the surface almost smooth.

This is a world ending bomb. Half the planet’s crust would be molten for decades if not centuries. It would probably be the first mass extinction event that kills off more than 99.9% of all species. 10 gigatons is about 1/4-1/5 the amount of energy that Theia imparted to Proto-Earth which created two moons for a very short period of time, and made the entire planet molten for another 1/4 billion years.

Oh, and I agree with Teller on this one. He, correctly in my view, assumed that the end game of fusion weapons was a way to end all life on Earth, and designed the endgame. I think we were very stupid to split that up into massive stockpiles that, “maybe we could use one or a few, but not all of them.” That’s far too big of a risk for normal humans. Someone will use them again if they are as small as they are.

That was a fusion device though

Rogue One.

Sure, but they’re fuzzy, at least the “core” is.

Funny way to spell Arch

/s

I don’t use Arch, btw

Just like you explained the full thing? That type of “not speaking?”

I simplified things. You added no concrete additional context.

True, but I’m not trying to write a dissertation while enjoying my morning bowl o weed

That’s not how that works. The Sahara savannah is tied to the rotation of the earth on its axis. That takes roughly 23,000 years. The period of time between savannah periods is about 13,000 years and the last one ended roughly 6,000-7,000 years ago. The next one will start in roughly 6,0000-7,000 more years.

Those are crumbs not biscuits on top. It’s an apple crumb pie, fairly standard if you dont want to put another pie dough on top.

There was a virtual swap space program that I downloaded in the Windows 95-98 era that did something similar. Worked reasonably well, if slowly, but everything was slower back then with computers.

Maybe that’s why the time travellers didn’t show? I know I wouldn’t knowing what I know now.

Debian unstable has entered the chat

My father does Cobol programming for banks.

That’s how you get comets

So a bit quicker than terraforming Venus by chucking several oceans worth of ice at it, and some cyanobactera once it cools down in a few hundred thousand years.