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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...and accidentally incinerated its home world, as the supply dependant lunar colony could only look on in horror.

✨The End✨

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I know you're joking, but nuclear fusion is inherently safe because if it breaks there is no way to sustain a chain reaction. And is only creates mildly radioactive byproducts. So you could blow it up and it wouldn't seriously contaminate the area.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Not only are the radioactive byproducts not that dangerous (everything is relative of course). But also they have incredibly short half lives so they go away long before the firefighters turned up.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago

    Technically fission has a similar physical barrier to infinite meltdown. Once the water leaves the core, the reaction stops. It was called China Syndrome, and we wouldn't have worried about it at all, had the physicist that thought it up been a bit more competent with his math skills. Unfortunately, there are plenty of other ways that the reactors that we currently use can catastrophically fail.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Nah, the Earth doesn't have enough mass to become a star. If it did, it would already be one.

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