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Is this the craziest experiment ever done?

>> No.10584600
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10584600

nah

>> No.10584602

>>10584576
It wasn't as crazy as this social experiment my artist friend did. It was wild, but he was dedicated for the role.

>> No.10584610

>>10584600
>Trust me bro, this is going to work!

>> No.10584631

>>10584576
this story gets me triggered as fuck
a group of talented scientists could not think a safer way to handle such a dangerous experiment
instead of lowering the upper half (the lower being fixed) they could have just raised the lower half (the upper being fixed), so if anything slipped the two halves would not come together and fuck up your entire body.
in engineering we call it "failsafe" and in this case the technical solution was so fucking obvious it is embarassing

>> No.10584682

>>10584631
>us scientists will figure out how the hard stuff, we'll leave the clean up for you engie boys lat..whoops..
>neutron bombs the room

>> No.10584755

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
>Once Project MKUltra got underway in April 1953, experiments included administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts, and sex workers—"people who could not fight back," as one agency officer put it.In one case, they administered LSD to a mental patient in Kentucky for 174 days.They also administered LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, and members of the general public to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were often administered without the subject's knowledge orinformed consent, a violation of theNuremberg Codethe U.S. had agreed to follow after World War II. The aim of this was to find drugs which would bring out deep confessions or wipe a subject's mind clean and program him or her as "a robot agent."
>They exported experiments to Canada when the CIA recruited British psychiatristDonald Ewen Cameron, creator of the "psychic driving" concept, which the CIA found interesting. Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by erasing existing memories and reprogramming the psyche. He commuted fromAlbany, New York, toMontrealevery week to work at theAllan Memorial InstituteofMcGill Universityand was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 (which would be $624,197 USD in today's currency, adjusting for inflation) to carry MKUltra experiments there, theMontreal experiments. These research funds were sent to Dr. Cameron by a CIA front organization, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, and as shown in internal CIA documents, Cameron did not know the money came from the CIA.In addition to LSD, Cameron also experimented with various paralytic drugs as well aselectroconvulsive therapyat thirty to forty times the normal power. His "driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced comas for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playingtape loopsof noise or simple repetitive statements

>> No.10584768
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i donno if anybody has tried to decay the vacuum of QFT yet, but that would be pretty insane

>> No.10584818

>>10584768
It would be impossible for anyone to ever a successful vacuum metastability event because if you succeed the true vacuum expands at the speed of light.

So it's an experiment that can only ever be observed to produce a null result. So no real point in doing it.

>> No.10584821

>>10584576
The synthesis of FOOF is better imho
>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride

>> No.10584830

>>10584818
*ever observe a successful vacuum metastability event

>> No.10584837

>>10584576
yes. Fermi told him he would be dead within a year if he kept performing the experiment that way. And guess what happened?

>> No.10584842

>>10584818
unless you're an antinatalist

>> No.10584845

>>10584600
lmao thx for reminding me

>> No.10584851

>>10584837
>And guess what happened?
He gave birth to a super army of octopus soldiers?

>> No.10584881

>>10584818
“either your experiment fails, or it succeeds and you die immediately”

okay, yes, good argument for not doing the experiment, but still, i could see some insane/terrorist type person attempting it. some people are suicidal and sociopathic, right?

>> No.10584941
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>>10584851
>Uh, what? Oh, yeah, they say madness runs in our family. Some even call me mad. And why? Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen with octagonal shaped bodies that suck blood...

>> No.10584965

>To demonstrate H. pylori caused gastritis and was not merely a bystander, Marshall drank a beaker of H. pylori culture. He became ill with nausea and vomiting several days later. An endoscopy 10 days after inoculation revealed signs of gastritis and the presence of H. pylori. These results suggested H. pylori was the causative agent. Marshall and Warren went on to demonstrate antibiotics are effective in the treatment of many cases of gastritis.
this one's relatively low risk but it's still fun

>> No.10584978

>>10584600
ho mai tea

>> No.10584993

>>10584941
miss that show.

>> No.10585115
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>>10584821
What's more, apparently there is one practical use for FOOF: low-temperature plutonium hexafluoride synthesis.
>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255927029_Low-temperature_synthesis_of_plutonium_hexafluoride

>> No.10585132
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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

The cold war was fucking mental.
It was practically science/engineering graduates on opposite sides of the world thinking up crazier and crazier ways to blow eachother up and the governments writing them unlimited checks.

>> No.10585142

>>10584631
so this is the power of philosopher scientists

>> No.10585156
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>>10585132
>pic
Goddamn. Still though, is it any crazier than the Davey Crockett, or Project Orion, or SLAM?

>> No.10585166

>>10585132
goddamnit boomer, i don’t want cold war redpills. i mean, i appreciate it, but come on. missile defense and MAD are a thing of the past

>> No.10585168

>>10585166
Isn't MAD the only thing keeping Pakistan and India from tearing one another's throats out right now?

>> No.10585171

>>10585156
The idea was that you would fire it into a squadron of enemy bombers, then blow it up in the air.

Not sure of the yield but detonating nukes high up in the air has connotations for electronics below. Feels more useful in it's niche than crockett or slam but was made obsolete by ICBMs, a lot of crazy shit to do with bombers was made obselete by them actually.

PS: project orion was pure fucking kino, it would work pretty well even today

>> No.10585174

>>10585168
yes, but the first world doesn’t give even .01 fucks about the third world. it’s disgraceful but true

>> No.10585181
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>>10585171
The Genie had a yield of 1.5kt according to wiki. The idea is bonkers but I love it, enemy squadron coming your way? Just fucking nuke the sky.
And you're damn right about Orion, a version delivered to high orbit in pieces and assembled there would be a pain but overcome the whole "chain of nukes in the atmosphere" issue. Shame the Army got a boner for the project, it could have been great.

>> No.10585203

>>10585181
>nuke shills think they can use plutonium to power their mopeds

>> No.10585205

>>10585181
How effective would nuclear devices have been as a means of transportation in space?

>> No.10585256

no, the tabletop thermal penetrator was. And that shit not only worked but they did a demo inside the capitol building.

>> No.10585271

>>10584631
Wow it's like hindsight is 20/20. He didn't think he'd drop it which is why he did it. The second guy was stacking bricks, which you would think would be safer, but it wasn't.

>> No.10585272

>>10585205
Pretty effective, from the sounds of it. Enough that the Air Force wanted several to menace the reds with from orbit. They tested the concept with conventional explosives and it seems to have worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM

>> No.10585280

>>10584576
There were a few problems with the safety procedures of the experiment. It could have been built to make accidental criticality nearly impossible.

>> No.10585311

>>10585156
SLAM is still my favorite.

>> No.10585328

>>10585311
What would be the technical obstacles in constructing a SLAM with a speaker to blare link-related as it passed over targets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ADgCeYJMN4

>> No.10585334

>>10585271
The whole point of working safely is to set up precautions to capture things you can't think of. It's like wearing a safety harness when you're climbing on the roof
>well I didn't think I was going to trip on that protruding tile

>> No.10585514

>>10585334
Do you know why we have safety harnesses? Because people fell off roofs. Most safety features are in place because of accidents that happened previously.

>> No.10585535

>>10585514
>Be scientist
>Do math n sheit
>"According to my calculations, this fucking shit will try my dick off if the wrong bits touch"
>Whip up a few 20lb samples
>"I better not spend a lot of time building some sort of jig to keep this shit from frying my dick off, it needs to be tested ASAP"
>Gets his dick fried off
And nobody was surprised. I legit didn't believe this happened when I first heard about it because of how trivial it would be to build a machine to do it

>> No.10586380

>>10584755
Why did they get away with this? The US government is basically responsible for one big mengele party, yet it's barely touched upon. Obviously nobody is going to be actually punished, especially so much later, but you'd think it should at least be as common of a criticism as muh healthcare and other modern talking points.

>> No.10586411

>>10584576
Brainlet here. Wtf is going on? Everyone but me seems to know what the pic is about

>> No.10586420

>>10586411
Those hemispheres contain nuclear material. He's holding them apart with a screwdriver to see the reactions as they come near to each other. It slipped and they fell totally together, giving out a blast of radiation that killed him.

>> No.10586424

>>10586411
>>10585132

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>>10584576
I head transplant are crazy
Also I wonder if there is any successful Humanzee experiment it looks neat

>> No.10586533

>>10586411
Those hemispheres contain a very nuclear material, and he was demonstrating reactions by holding the hemispheres apart with a screwdriver.
However, as you may realize by reading this, this is an extremely sloppy way to contain nuclear material, and the screwdriver slipped, blasting him with enough radiation to kill him in a very short amount of time (I think it was 9 days or something)
Not to mention there were also other people in the room, which were also harmed.

Also

DEMON CORE

>> No.10586615

>>10585205
Ever put a quarter stick of dynamite under a metal trash can?
Works breddy gud.

>> No.10586620

>>10584576
That nuclear test where they accidentally launched a steel plate out of the solar system.

>> No.10586664

>>10586380
>Why did they get away with this?

Haha. You do realize the extent to which the US is involved in setting up corrupt dictatorships around the world for their own advantage and how the media deliberately just doesn't talk about this stuff? You really need to look into this shit.

>> No.10586669

>>10586620
Did it really get into space or did it vaporize from pressure heating?

>> No.10586673

>>10585328
Probably wouldn't be able to hear it over the Sonic boom. BUT you could send attack helicopters as a vanguard with speakers fitted. They could terrorize civilians before the slam drones come in to do the real work.

>> No.10586717

>>10586380
>Uncle sam offers everyone a chance to trip balls.
>act as if its the holocaust

From the declassified intel. It seemed these spooks just wanted an excuse for a bigger budget without having to commit like the U2 program, and to possibly have a pretty humerous form of entertainment.

Government agencies are more often then not filled with frat boys and ivy league preps. Not 200 IQ idealists.

>> No.10586887

>>10586669
We may never know

>> No.10586923

>>10586717
Many higher ups used the program to make underage girls (like 10-12) perform sexual acts.

>> No.10587007

>>10586717
>>Uncle sam offers everyone a chance to trip balls.
nibba offering someone to trip balls is a very different experience to forcing someone to trip balls for days on end while listening to noise

>> No.10587022

>>10585171
>>10585181
Orion is one of those things that everyone that knows about it supports it but the general public never would and the powers than canned it knew that.
My personal favorite variant used giant SRBs to get into the upper atmosphere before kicking off the nuke train allowing for nearly all of the orbital velocity to come from nukes.

>> No.10587024

>>10584755
>a violation of theNuremberg Codethe U.S. had agreed to follow after World War II.
this is the best part of the whole cherry pie. The US invents for the first time in history a multilateral 'system of justice' at Nuremberg to have a semblance of respectability for punishing their enemies, then immediately goes and violates the very laws they invented.

>> No.10587033
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>>10587022
Sea Dragon- Orion combo. A match made in hell that would take us to the heavens

>> No.10587037

>>10586887
what's the point of science if you can't repeat experiments? this one seems pretty important

>> No.10587047

>>10584818
I do somewhat wonder if a doomsday scenario is someone figures out how to start vacuum decay, and it turns out it's really simple and anyone can do with $5 worth of easily available resources.

Whole world becomes very tense for a few days as we all realise it's a matter of time before some mad fucker does this. Then they do.

>> No.10587054

>>10585132
Fuuuck i wish it was still on. Just think of all the crazy shit those engies and scientists saw and did. It was like getting a blank check to be a bond villain

>> No.10587055

>>10587037
I've heard before it almost certainly vapourised in the atmosphere.

>> No.10587062

>>10586923
Someone should have told them the Arabs have discovered the tech thousands of years ago

>> No.10587075

>>10587037
>>10587055
Of course I can't find it now but there is a video where a guy does the math and finds it depends on the actual velocity (unknown from a single frame) and if it stabilized to fly like a discus within the first couple of tens of a second.
If it was at the upper limits of it's possible speed it would have vaporized, if it didn't stabilize it would have vaporized but if it was toward the lower speed range and did stabilize it had a very good chance of making solar orbit.

>> No.10587077

>>10587075
damn. that's nuts.

>> No.10587091

>>10584631
but they had a better way.
Ole cowboy Curtis here just used a screwdriver because "Yee-haw!"

>> No.10587097
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10587097

>demon core experiment
>dude let's lower the upper half and see what happens lmao
>okay but what we raise the lower half instead?
>that way we can't accidentally drop the upper half and kill everyone in the room
>dude it's fine i got a screwdriver lmao

>> No.10587168

>>10587097
Why would you trust the guy who failed shop class with a screwdriver?

>> No.10587209

>>10587097
>trusting dumb physishits with a screwdriver

>> No.10587243

>>10587097

People make mistakes. Crazy right?

>> No.10587564

>>10586380

The US area currently ahead in the culture wars. If in 500 years the world becomes predominantly chinese or muslim the way the US will be portrayed in books will be the same as chinese/muslims/nazis are portrayed in books now.
Welcome to the real world. The US does just about as much propaganda as Russia or North Korea to brainwash you.

>> No.10587608

>>10587097
I think that this shows the main difference between an scientific and a enginering mind

>> No.10587631

>>10584600
Crazy? Maybe not. When the exploding and fire died away, he was gone -- presumably ascended to Heaven.

>Went better than expected...

>> No.10587635

>>10584631
The quest for the fool-proof is doomed by the unlimited creativity of the fool.

>> No.10587642

>>10584818

Not sure that is particularly reassuring.

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

>> No.10587643

>>10584993
To be fair, in the last seasons they tried very hard to kill your love so you would not miss it so much.

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>>10585181

>> No.10587648

>>10585203
They can. It just may not be the best idea.

>> No.10587659
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There was a war of extermination going on, and these cone heads were making it up on the spot. They often had no idea what was going to happen. Every experiment was the First Time It Had Been Done. Even the theoretical end of it was being hacked out in the next room at the same time, usually by the KaBlammo method. Aerospace went at it the same way. Sooner or later, a Slotin, or a Yeager, or some other redshirt has to go poke it with a stick and see what happens. When you're writing the book as you go, it can get a bit loud. Doing Shit With Science is not for the faint of heart.

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>>10586533
>a very nuclear material

>> No.10587715

>>10586380
>Why did they get away with this?
because every time the USA destabilizes a region or installs a dictator, they get sweet business deals and cheap access to resources. america looks the other way because it's getting hella rich in the bargain

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>>10586669
It was too far away from the initial blast to be vaporized from the bomb. It was the pressure wave hitting a column of water with a steel door on top, water doesn't like to compress, and expanded outward catapulting the steel plate.
It was never seen or heard from again.

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>>10587646
I'll never understand why more Niven and Pournelle books haven't been turned into trashy summer blockbusters.
Lucifer's hammer would make a great movie, or mini series.

>> No.10587736

>>10587722
He’s talking about being vaporised from moving through the atmosphere at such ludicrous speeds. Considering the point of vaporisation due to ablation is significantly below the estimated speeds, I think the plate didn’t survive long enough to leave the atmosphere.

>> No.10587747

>>10587736
It wouldn't really vaporize even in the worst case scenario, it would become a molten ball of steel traveling slightly slower.

>> No.10587752

MKUl-

You dont know shit what CIA is doing to people. They capture high IQ people and give them DMT. Then they make them to communicate with aliens, demons or whatever they come into contact and then they steal technology, informations or anything they want from those beings. This shit is fucking insane to the extend that there might be new god sitting deep in the CIA bunkers dreaming whole existence and changes it to whatever CIA is telling him/her to change.

Y'all dont know shit.

>> No.10587785

>>10587722
I've never seen Baker from that angle!

>> No.10587788

>>10587747
I don’t think you realise how hot that steel would get to at that speed. At a minimum, it would have been going several times faster than objects in reentry, and at sea level air pressure. The plate is neither an ideal shape or material to be an ablative heat shield, and so the odds of it being able to survive that is slim at best.
The plate was moving fast enough that, when they viewed the high speed camera footage, it only showed up in one frame.

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>>10587752
He tried to warn us.

>> No.10587989

>>10587752
So not getting recruited after all these years means I'm actually a brainlet?!!

>> No.10588019

>>10587788
Reentry doesn't vaporise things, even randomly tumbling bits of junk. It still hits the ground mainly in once piece.

>> No.10588021

>>10587731
Too right wing and the space elephants would look like tards onscreen.

>> No.10588045
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>>10588019
>Reentry doesn't vaporise things
Huh? Doesn't that depend on material, size and density? I'm pretty sure asteroids burn up all the time, only the iron-rich ones or fuck-huge stones survive all the way to the ground. If I'm wrong on this I'd like to know it.

>> No.10588078
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>>10588045
"Burning up in the atmosphere" is mostly a figure of speech. Only very small dustgrains would totally disintegrate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite#Fall_phenomena

>> No.10588080

>>10587789
Lmao @ one of the comments on that highlight video.

>Alex Jones' brain is like a constantly rotating rotisserie chicken

>> No.10588090

>>10588078
no, you’re /x/ tier. fuck off. patrician anon >>10587788 wins

>> No.10588096

>>10588078
Damn. From first glance at this image I thought this meteorite was a foot across. But then the ruler shows up and I realize it's actually about the size of your dick.

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>>10584600

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>>10588099
legendary

>> No.10588301

>>10588096
My dick does indeed weight several kilograms and is as hard as iron.
It's a serious medical condition.

>> No.10588311

>>10584631
I'm sure you've never gotten sucked into a project/experiment with something you didn't totally understand and just played around a little without thinking.

>> No.10588319

>>10588045
based and meteorpilled

>> No.10588448

>>10588311
lol sure, while working on a substance which we intend will be the ultimate weapon humanity ever needs

>> No.10588453

>>10587097
I almost get my lap covered in burning sticky jellied alcohol (sterno) from someone with this retarded overconfidence, it was pretty sobering

>> No.10588643

>>10588078
The link you posted is only discussing material that reaches the surface. I contend that more material burns up when it reaches the atmosphere.
I also don't know how you would test this theory, because how could you tell how much material enters the atmosphere each year? For all we know, most shit burns to ash and dust without us ever knowing. Or, maybe not. I don't know.

>> No.10588646

>>10584576
Unit 731

>> No.10588669

>>10584576
It was pretty fucking stupid. If they had even tried to handle that stuff without bare hands more of them would have lived. Fucking hubristic retards

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>>10588099
based Lawnchair Larry inspired many.
Check out this amazing and terrifying flight by a Canadian:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33414264

Cool to read about, but horrifying when you see it.
Balls of steel, for sure.

>> No.10588696

>>10584576
Louis Slotin and this guy:
>>10588687
...both Canadian. Kinda makes you wonder...

>> No.10588706

>>10584993
all the good episodes still exist though
Nothing wrong with a bit of necrophilia

>> No.10588789

>>10586411
Louis Slotin & the Demon Core

>https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/demon-core-the-strange-death-of-louis-slotin

>> No.10588793

>>10588687
>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33414264
oh no no no nothankyou. that far from the ground with very little control fuck no. who'd do that? based descent tho

>> No.10589392

>>10587662
Great, any better way to explain a material which has a tendency to let out giant bursts of radiation?

>> No.10589822

>>10589392
Radioactive

>> No.10589837

>>10589822
Alright, bananas contain Potassium-40, which does not immediately seal your fate, despite being radioactive.

>> No.10589841

>>10587635
failsafe != foolproof

Failsafe means that even if it fails wrong nothing horrible happens.

>> No.10589857

>>10588099
Ever since I learned about project manhigh I wanted to try something like this with a parachute descent.

>> No.10589869

>>10588045
Carboniferous and silicoid stones can survive re entry.
What you see as lighting up a falling meteor is the oxygen compressing in the bowshock to the point it ignites, like a SCRAM jet. Thats why some can land and still be cold to the touch.

>> No.10589899

>>10587022
>Orion is one of those things that everyone that knows about it supports it

No, some people who know about it are not down for exploding nuclear devices as a launch technique, and are not really excited about orbiting a bunch of radioctives for use in a vehicle already in space.

Whether such objections hold with a vehicle fueled by radioactives mined off Earth remains to be seen -- and is moot at this point.

>> No.10589906

>>10588099
>>10588102
>>10588687
this looks like a perfect way to kill myself

>> No.10589915

>>10587722
Lots of chunks of stuff falling into the ocean after the blast. I wonder how many of them are shreds of the steel plate that "nobody ever saw again."

Whatever happened to it, of course nobody ever saw it again -- it either went to the stars, or vaporized, or shredded and fell in bits into the deep ocean.

>> No.10589918

>>10587731
I always figured that the cannibals in Lucifer's Hammer raised too many warning bells for a movie-TV company to touch it. Re-read it recently, and the cannibals are less homogeneous than I remembered, but still...

All in all, though, I'm fine with them leaving it alone. They'd just ruin it.

>> No.10589921

>>10588045
>Not a single fuck is given.

I guess Russia gets hit by so many fireballs they don't even notice any more.

>> No.10589928

>>10588687
>Balls of steel, for sure.

Or just an amazing inability to understand personal risk.

>> No.10589931

>>10589837
And every object and substance contains nuclei. What's your point?

>> No.10590001

>>10589931
Well, I feel as if very nuclear was a good way to describe my point, despite being ridiculously wrong.
As in, bananas don't kill you immediately.

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>>10589869
>to the point it ignites
>oxygen ignites
>oxygen stars burning oxygen

>> No.10590232

>>10585181
It looks so terribly crude, so inefficient. Most of the power gets dispersed. Very imprecise - needs additional drive. Longevity of the piston most likely shit. If you won't puke from the gees zig-zaging, you'll start from the radiation eventually. To many moving parts - just asking for accident. And if an accident does occur, you will bombard the planet you were going to with radioactive debris (i.e. Earth that you were coming back to).

Orion is as sexy and as dysfunctional as Pamela Anderson. It gets too much credit, tho it fits /sci/ line of thinking perfectly.

>> No.10590484

>>10588078

Sbace Benis!!1! :DDD

>> No.10591049

>>10585115
Lol fewf

>> No.10591059

>>10590064
>>oxygen stars burning oxygen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen-burning_process
yeah it happens

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>>10591059
Wait are you sure the capsule causes oxygen to actually fuse? There's no way reentry heats shit up to millions of degrees and compresses it near star core pressures