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3894206 No.3894206 [Reply] [Original]

What would happen if Superman through a ball of enriched uranium at a stationary ball of uranium?

>> No.3894219

How enriched?

>> No.3894218

you might learn to spelll

>> No.3894223

yes obviously

>> No.3894234

42

>> No.3894235

Superman can control how hard he throws things. If he wanted to he could throw it super fast (which is what your question implies). In that case his action might work as a trigger mechanism to initiate nuclear fusion.

>> No.3894241

he would miss

>> No.3894253

he'd have to fly around the earth backwards at high speed in order to undo the all the shit he just caused

>> No.3894271

>>3894218
Let's be realistic here. I'm never going to learn how to spell.

>> No.3894275

>>3894235
You mean nuclear fission.

>> No.3894294

>>3894219
Like, REALLY, enriched. There is not-so-enriched, there is enriched, and then there is REALLY enriched. If enrichment made stuff hard, this stuff would be diamond. If enrichment made stuff fast, it would be made of neutrinos. If enrichment made stuff purple, then this ball would be, like... really purple.

>> No.3894317

If Superman (Kal-el) actually existed, we would have long ago crafted enough Kryptonite weapons to have killed him when he ever "stepped off the reservation" (ie. ever was perceived as a threat to Western governments).

Once Supes was dead, a program would have been set in motion to also kill Supergirl and Power Girl, since both are his leading Kryptonian relatives and allies. There's no way those allies would have let Superman's murder just pass by.

Then Superman's Fortress of Solitude would have been raided for all the Kryptonian tech that it contained. Chances are, the inhabitants of the bottle city of Kandor would have to be gassed, lest they ever get out and become tiny, super-powered agents of vengeance against the government conspiracy to kill Kal-el.

>> No.3894339
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3894339

>>3894206

You mean threw?
Are you familiar with Mark Twain?
He has a fantastic saying which i think is in your interests;
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt”

The fact that you have such inferior intellect and use a trip justifies every insult you receive

>> No.3894347

>>3894275

Nuclear fission it is, then.

>> No.3894354

>>3894347
Because he would have to throw it REALLY fast to fuse uranium.

>> No.3894358

>>3894339
I wouldn't go that far.

>> No.3894362

>>3894354
>>3894354
if superman flies at 99.9999% light speeed, then throughs the uranium ....

>> No.3894372

>>3894271
Well, spells belong to /x/ anyway. No big deal.

>> No.3894375

>>3894372
That's a comforting way to put it.

>> No.3894401

>>3894294
so a ball of like pure U235?
it's probably undergo spontaneous fission or something, but weapon's grade is 90% so maybe not

depends on the speed that superman threw it. Little boy was a gun-fission device and the uranium slug was launched by some pretty hefty shaped charges

>> No.3894429

>>3894401
wait, i'm fucking dumb
the target in little boy was wrapped in neutron reflection material to reduce the critical mass (which for uranium is hueg)

superman would have to chuck that thing incredibly fucking hard to get a fission event, and even then the chain reaction wouldn't sustain itself for very long.