Correction: 20 million megaton bomb, not 20,000 million. Typo on my part!!! (Does not change things from a practical standpoint.)
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Fun fact of the day: if the ocean had +20X more deuterium in it than it does, then it could be ignited by a 20,000 million megaton bomb.pic.twitter.com/UpkvUnvloR
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And how large a bomb might it require now? Asking for a friend.
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They conclude no size could do it now. I.e. could throw entire planet into Sun and it wouldn't be a self-sustaining fusion burn.
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And probably goes without emphasis, but I will emp.: Q is whether fusion wd be *self-sustaining*. Earth + Sun = burns, but not sustaining.
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I love the fact you thought you should qualify this
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Just don't want people thinking it would be totally fine to throw the Earth into Sun. Because it wouldn't be!
#themoreyouknow
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You realize that some laymen have no idea that the bomb you describe is approaching the size of the sun and think DPRK probably has one.
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It's actually not THAT large! More like a bomb the size of a metropolitan area (rough estimate). But not a Sun!
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Paper says 2e7 (20 million) MT; is 20,000 million (20 billion?) MT a typo or did I misunderstand something?
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Oh, that might be a typo on my part. I am terrible with standard notation!
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Knowing this will make it way, way cooler the next time I use D-enriched water for a biochemical experiment.
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I will carefully check my vicinity for 20 petaton nuclear bombs before I start the experiment of course.
#chemsafety
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I do envy physicists that were able to write those kinds of papers for a job.
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Alex, I'm starting to worry about you.
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Only a 20,000 million megaton bomb?
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Let's file this factoid in "Probably Never Use This" folder...
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Facts don't get much funner than that! :)
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Wasn't their a Soviet design ship that was basically a huge bomb? Seems like I read that at one point but never got details. Digression
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Thank God for small blessings.
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