tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009870.post111774337750891636..comments2023-10-15T10:46:08.280-05:00Comments on Unnecessary Thrills: WowAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789206585068954575noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009870.post-1117803427897970332005-06-03T07:57:00.000-05:002005-06-03T07:57:00.000-05:00Not only does it have no control rods, it's not wa...Not only does it have no control rods, it's not water-cooled, either.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06789206585068954575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009870.post-1117762258604584772005-06-02T20:30:00.000-05:002005-06-02T20:30:00.000-05:00I'm not sure whether this falls under impossible o...I'm not sure whether this falls under impossible or implausible, but the implication that barbaric dark ages are utterly unprecedented is iffy. I mean, from what I've been hearing this week, the Nixon administration was pretty bad.<BR/><BR/>But anyway, to retain my nuclear-policy bona-fides:<BR/><BR/>Implausible: Note that actual Chernobyl accident didn't cause dark age. Subsequent Chernobyl-style accident in New York similarly unlikely to, particularly with prevailing winds blowing out over the Atlantic.<BR/><BR/>Impossible: Impossible to create "Chernobyl-style accident" with a "loose nuke." A weaponized nuclear device typically has three orders of magnitude less fissioning material as compared to a typical reactor core.<BR/><BR/>Implausible: Extremely unlikely to get reasonable yield from jostling, squeezing, shooting, or petting your nuclear device. Getting proper detonation from your nuke is a very delicate manuever which must be executed precisely (so be sure to read the manual carefully).<BR/><BR/>Impossible: Weapon has "control rods." Har-har. Typical fission bomb is an implosion device in which the subcritical core is made supercritical (and initiated) via the coordinated detonation of a surrounding layer of high explosive. No control rods.<BR/><BR/>I'll stop now.Kwik2Jujjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05380601848204035006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009870.post-1117744784304267662005-06-02T15:39:00.000-05:002005-06-02T15:39:00.000-05:00Erica Jong: "Multiply 9/11 times a million." Me: M...Erica Jong: "Multiply 9/11 times a million." <BR/><BR/>Me: My god, that's... nine-hundred-and-eleven million!<BR/><BR/>Actually, of course, since there were 2,986 <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11" REL="nofollow">fatalities</A> on 9/11, it would be about 3,000,000,000. That's <EM>half</EM> of the <EM>entire <A HREF="http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw" REL="nofollow">population</A> of the Earth</EM> (6.4 billion). <BR/><BR/>That's a big f'ing bomb...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06789206585068954575noreply@blogger.com