The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 months agoKing Solomonlemmy.worldimagemessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1683
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minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoWas that not Albert Einstein’s fear regarding the bomb? That Earth’s atmosphere would simply ignite when exposed to the initial reaction? I think our sitting here, snickering at a comic about a biblical nuclear explosion, is proof that it wouldn’t happen.
minus-squarealpine_jim@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoi believe there was some early speculation that the unprecedented temperature of the Trinity test might ignite the atmosphere, somehow making the nitrogen burn, but that would be a chemical reaction, not a nuclear reaction.
minus-squareGorGor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI thought he was trying to add bubbles to beer https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ra7oqFqj9uU
Was that not Albert Einstein’s fear regarding the bomb? That Earth’s atmosphere would simply ignite when exposed to the initial reaction?
I think our sitting here, snickering at a comic about a biblical nuclear explosion, is proof that it wouldn’t happen.
i believe there was some early speculation that the unprecedented temperature of the Trinity test might ignite the atmosphere, somehow making the nitrogen burn, but that would be a chemical reaction, not a nuclear reaction.
I thought he was trying to add bubbles to beer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ra7oqFqj9uU