Everyone has a plan until they get hit by a rock.
What if your plan includes getting hit with a rock
Then their plan is complete
No but it just includes it, as part of it, not as the ultimate part
Everyone wants to be tall, but they forget that Goliath went down after being hit with a pebble.
So you’re telling me that dwarfs are immune to a thrown brick?
lower centre of gravity, less chance of toppling over
More than just one
Hell, a big enough chunk of any material from the periodic table will do a person in if it’s thrown hard enough.
Idunno, a lot of those chunks would be too cold to throw in solid form…
watches as some of the world’s foremost engineers and chemists collaborate on a billion dollar project to build a machine that creates solid helium and then chucks it at random passersby
Napkin math plan: a really big fucking laser. Use aforementioned big fucking laser to generate optical vortices; with the specific intent of creating a brief localized vaccuum state along the desired trajectory. This will require R&D during building. Concept is similar to how lightning works; “ionize” (or in this case, vaccumize?) a path, then send the payload. From there add in whatever condenser you need to generate solid forms of the substance you want to chuck and some kind of mag lev style launch rails to accelerate it into the vaccuum path. Theoretically if you can create an effective enough vaccuum along the trajectory, you shouldn’t have to worry about the payload being affected by drag heating in transit.
Possible? Probably not. Would the government give general atomics a few billion to try anyway? Probably
Aren’t they already using lasers to cool down the hydrogen? Or maybe I’m just thinking of atomic cooling for absolute zero experiments.
Achtually, most Uranium is uranium-238, which is mostly stable. People use it in glass and decorations and it causes them to glow in blacklight. It’s safe as long as you aren’t in daily constant contact with it or eat it.
Uranium-235 is less stable, but makes up less than 1% of Uranium on Earth. The quantity in natural uranium isn’t much riskier unless you’re exposed to enriched uranium which has more Uranium-235.
The byproducts of a chain reaction of U-235 fission are what cause most of the dangerous radiation. Which is to say, the leftovers of a nuclear explosion are very radioactive and dangerous, but natural uranium before exploding is mostly safe and it won’t explode unless you enrich it and set up the correct conditions.
the leftovers of a nuclear explosion are very radioactive and dangerous
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl
