North Korea threat of the day.

[techs]

 

[Rakehellion]

Is best Korea.

 

[Crusty]

Next up: North Korea threatens North Korea.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Anyone heard the one where they're trying to merge with South Korea and use the N Korean government to run things while using the S Korean economy? lmfao

 

[DrunkenSano]

 

[Pardus]

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[TechBoyJK]

since the sun is about 109 times the diameter of earth, you could launch 1000 icbm's at the sun and it wouldn't make a dent.

It'd be like tossing a grain of sand at the great wall of china

 

[lxskllr]

since the sun is about 109 times the diameter of earth, you could launch 1000 icbm's at the sun and it wouldn't make a dent.

Assuming you could get a sufficiently large nuke into the sun, what would happen? Would it scatter the sun bits so it quit burning, or would it fuel the sun making it burn hotter?

 

[Rakehellion]

Joke's on them. The Sun is going to supernova in a few billion years anyway.

 

[bignateyk]

Assuming you could get a sufficiently large nuke into the sun, what would happen? Would it scatter the sun bits so it quit burning, or would it fuel the sun making it burn hotter?

The sun is basically a giant sustained nuclear reaction. I don't think nuking it would do anything.

 

[crashtestdummy]

Assuming you could get a sufficiently large nuke into the sun, what would happen? Would it scatter the sun bits so it quit burning, or would it fuel the sun making it burn hotter?

Neither. The entire sun is one big fusion bomb. You can't really do much to it that's not already happening.

Edit: Beaten to the punch.

 

[techs]

You blow up one sun and no one lets you forget about it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

They should at least start with something smaller, like pluto. End the debate once and for all. :biggrin:

 

[nanobreath]

You blow up one sun and no one lets you forget about it.

An that is the first thing I thought of as well!

 

[Platypus]

I didn't know Chairface Chippendale lived in NK

 

[Newbian]

You blow up one sun and no one lets you forget about it.

Tell me when you blow up a solar system.

 

[Train]

since the sun is about 109 times the diameter of earth, you could launch 1000 icbm's at the sun and it wouldn't make a dent.

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the sun is 92.9 million miles from the earth, our nukes would NEVER make it that far, they MAY get to venus and die out. north korea can threaten all they want, but it will never happen.

All you have to do is send them in the direction of the sun. Gravity and a lack of any significant friction in space takes care of the rest, they will get there.

There is the uber slim chance they would crash into venus or mercury on the way there, but that can easily be avoided.

 

[Red Squirrel]

All you have to do is send them in the direction of the sun. Gravity and a lack of any significant friction in space takes care of the rest, they will get there.

There is the uber slim chance they would crash into venus or mercury on the way there, but that can easily be avoided.

Yeah was thinking the same, don't we have a probe right now that's past the edge of our solar system? It took it like 10+ years to get there, but it made it. Have not heard of it in a while actually...

I think with sending something to the sun what would probably happen is it would melt before it actually gets relatively close. But in theory, it could make it.

 

[JTsyo]

All you have to do is send them in the direction of the sun. Gravity and a lack of any significant friction in space takes care of the rest, they will get there.

There is the uber slim chance they would crash into venus or mercury on the way there, but that can easily be avoided.

Hardest part I think would be hardening electronics, that activate the nuke, to survive near the sun. Of course everything else melts too as you get close.

Maybe you can design something to focus the blast into a beam that can be targeted. That brings up another point, when the nuke goes off, it's basically releasing massive amounts of energy, there isn't much mass in the bomb for it to have any physical effect. On earth the atmosphere is affected by the energy and carries out further destruction. In space, it would just be the energy but it wouldn't be dampened at all, just growing less intense with the cube root of distance traveled. Wonder if the effective diameter of a nuke is more or less in space.

 

[bignateyk]

All you have to do is send them in the direction of the sun. Gravity and a lack of any significant friction in space takes care of the rest, they will get there.

There is the uber slim chance they would crash into venus or mercury on the way there, but that can easily be avoided.

I'm pretty sure it would melt/vaporize before it got anywhere near the sun.

 

[phucheneh]

Even if you got the nuke inside the sun and blew it up, I'm pretty sure gravity would tell your nuclear bomb to fuck off.

 

[gamefreakgcb]

I'll just leave this right here.

 

[T9D]

I can't believe this turned into a real debate lol

 

[Train]

I'm pretty sure it would melt/vaporize before it got anywhere near the sun.

Hey I never said it would get there in one peice, I just said it would get there.

 

[techs]

Trilithium?