To: Errant
A significant number of the scientists working on the bomb in New Mexico in 1945 were concerned that a runaway chain reaction could incinerate the entire earth ... but the bomb was detonated anyway.
At Cern there were voices which cautioned that no one knew what would happen if they created a nano-sized black hole in a collision. But they fired that thing up anyway and even repaired it and did it again after it over heated!
Which reminds me, with the first hydrogen bomb tests the 'brilliant' scientists got a 40% higher yield than expected, because they didn't think Lithium would add any to the reactions, IIRC.
9 posted on
03/25/2014 7:57:38 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
That was Ed Teller’s bomb design, I believe — the ginormous contraption we have to thank for the B-52 and the Saturn V (indirectly — the F1 engine was going to be needed to deliver the Teller H-bomb).
11 posted on
03/25/2014 8:20:29 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: MHGinTN
One has to wonder if one day we trigger something picked up thousands of light-years away, in another galaxy, by some alien satellite as a massive gamma emission and then subsequent explosion.
At least maybe it will be quick. ;)
13 posted on
03/25/2014 8:22:28 AM PDT by
Errant
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