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what really happened to the Titanic (lemmy.world)
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[–] 0 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

Deep core mining is the real tech we need. Blow up a 10 gigaton device on the surface and you'll melt a hemisphere of the upper layer of the crust and create a 30 mile diameter crater. Bury that baby 5,000 miles into the planet and blow it up? The Earth is gonna need help opening it's ketchup bottles for a few billion years until it reforms, potentially around the moon which I suppose would actually stabilize the moon's orbit, but would probably make neo-Earth uninhabitable.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    lol no. 10 gigatons is a yawn to the Earth. It's still 14 orders of magnitute too weak to blow up the Earth. That's trillions of times less than what it would take to "blow up" the Earth, and 10000x less than Chicxulub, which the Earth already survived.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    You are, again, orders of magnitude off, and have no clue what you are talking about. I'm an actual nuclear power scientist, so yeah. I'm gonna ignore all the lies you tell from now on.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    rofl you are an ignorant fool, then. Seriously, you are genuinely stupid if you think something 10000x smaller than chicxulub would make half the planet molten.

    Seriously, you are a joke and should be fired if you work in any related industry...

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    Ladies, Gentlemen, Nuclear Engineers, Aliens bent on conquest and demi-gods or demons bent on wrath and destruction; Look, we have a job to do. The earth probably isn't going to shatter on its own. At least not with that attitude. We need teamwork. Collaboration. Hard math. Next, next-next-next-gen explosives and a lot of them.

    We can do this!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    The bigger problem is Earth is gooey at scale. Seriously, the mantle, which is most of Earth's mass, is gooey rock. "shattering" as if it were solid simply isn't going to happen. Most of the Earth is like thick caramel or worse as far as "shattering" is concerned.

    The best you could hope for is something like how the moon formed; an impact (very) roughly 10x less than the gravitational binding energy of the Earth itself (which is crazy in and of itself!). If you'll note, the Earth 'survived' that impact, but was forever changed in significant ways.

    What's even crazier, is that Earth had single celled organisms growing on it less than 500 million years later! For reference, the oldest mountain ranges are 2-3x older in relative terms.

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