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I bet they were all disappointed because if there were no significant effect the next logical step is to allow the team try again with nukes.

• marginalia_nu 4y ago
  Nukes in space are actually not all that great. The same goes for explosions in general. A lot of our intuition for explosions come from how they interact with atmosphere, which will compress and expand, and mediate a shock wave in a way vacuum categorically does not. A nuke is essentially reduced to a flash of ionizing radiation and a few kilograms of gas rapidly cooling and diffusing into the vacuum of space.
  • klysm 4y ago
    Do they need some mass to throw around? I wonder if you could like embed one in an asteroid.
  • SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
    Also, trying to get nukes into space is not that great both in terms of "what if something goes wrong" and the optics from foreign powers.
    • dbbk 4y ago
      Yeah nukes are not something I'd want to "fuck around and find out" with