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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004980 Calculations have been done in general about runaway fission/fusion
by labster 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18004980 Calculations have been done in general about runaway fission/fusion already. Hawking showed that mini black holes "evaporate" very rapidly, before anyone would even notice.
As for some unexpected pathway, energies like this are reached in stars all the time, and they don't spontaneously explode on a regular basis. If you're talking about a basic science experiment being the Great Filter -- well, maybe. I'm skeptical.
- saagarjha 8y ago> As for some unexpected pathway, energies like this are reached in stars all the time, and they don't spontaneously explode on a regular basis. Well, they kind of do… But really, the only reason why stars manage to stay in hydrostatic equilibrium is because of gravity, which we really can’t do on Earth so we settle for fancy magnetic confinement vessels.