What space fact has most blown your mind?
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We’ve been chasing fusion reactor technology for decades and it’s always 20 years in the future. Maybe we should’ve pursued… gator reactors instead? Just gotta pack them tight together. Reminds me of https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
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I do not understand, isnt the suns core energy created by fusion releasing the energy of the atom, while the alligators energy is stored as chemical bonding that is orders of magnitude smaller?
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Yes, this is true. This is why the sun can burn for billions of years. But the rate of this energy production is very slow, a tiny fraction of the rate of the much less energetic chemical reactions in the alligator
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We don’t need more cold blood
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Wow. I would not have thunk that
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Fusion Power for producing electricity: welfare for scientists; a rediculous pipe dream; always has been, always will be
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