• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Who approves the budget for these crazy ideas instead of just testing them on a small scale?

      “Hey what would happen if we nuked a high speed train? Only one way to find out!”

      • loobkoob@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        It’s Tom Cruise. It just comes out of the Mission Impossible budget. And he insists on driving the train himself.

        In all seriousness, though: this was the small scale test - the nuclear bombs designed for wars have much higher payloads. It’s not the sort of thing that can be tested in labs.