Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 months agoMedieval Doomsday Weaponlemmy.worldimagemessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1570file-text
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minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·7 months agoi mean, to be clear, this isn’t a doomsday weapon, this is what we call a mass casualty weapon. This is probably more closely related to starting a fire in the middle of a battlefield more than anything.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 months agoi’m fun! You just need to be technically accurate when you’re having fun smh. Now to be fair, i do have an autistic interest in nuclear power, so i know more than the average person. But like, it only makes it funnier :)
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoMake it the size of the moon. Now it’s a doomsday weapon?
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoi mean, maybe? I don’t actually know how the physics would scale up to that size, would probably cause all kinds of havoc.
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoIf you tried to make one the size of the moon, it would blow up a bit past the time you got it to the size of an atomic bomb core. Or, if you did it slowly enough, it would go critical but stop being pure enough to explode.
i mean, to be clear, this isn’t a doomsday weapon, this is what we call a mass casualty weapon.
This is probably more closely related to starting a fire in the middle of a battlefield more than anything.
You’re no fun.
i’m fun! You just need to be technically accurate when you’re having fun smh.
Now to be fair, i do have an autistic interest in nuclear power, so i know more than the average person. But like, it only makes it funnier :)
Make it the size of the moon. Now it’s a doomsday weapon?
i mean, maybe?
I don’t actually know how the physics would scale up to that size, would probably cause all kinds of havoc.
If you tried to make one the size of the moon, it would blow up a bit past the time you got it to the size of an atomic bomb core. Or, if you did it slowly enough, it would go critical but stop being pure enough to explode.