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Not really any more terrifying than driving around in vehicles powered by thousands of tiny explosions per minute.

• idlewords 3y ago
  If someone siphons your gas tank, they're not going to be able to nuke Paris. But a nuclear pulse rocket needs thousands of bomblets the size of coke cans. That's the scary part.
  • marcinzm 3y ago
    > size of coke cans. Not really, each one would be 6 inches in diameter and weight over 300lbs.
    • p1mrx 3y ago
      Sounds impossible. A 6 inch diameter uranium sphere is only 80 lbs, and there are no materials significantly denser than that.
      • postalrat 3y ago
        They sell coke cans in the shape of a sphere?
        • p1mrx 3y ago
          https://www.google.com/search?q=spherical+coke+bottle&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=spherical+coke+bottle&tbm=is...
    • idlewords 3y ago
      Dyson's book hints that they ended up far smaller, but the details of that are classified to the gills.