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"Thermonuclear", even in the colloquial sense, underwhelms the magnitude of this event by... a lot lol. We measure nuclear detonations in 1-10 MT. A nova is mo
by omgJustTest 2y ago
"Thermonuclear", even in the colloquial sense, underwhelms the magnitude of this event by... a lot lol.
We measure nuclear detonations in 1-10 MT. A nova is more like 10^18-10^30 MT.
- PeterCorless 2y agoI was looking at a solar filament the other day. You know. Just a few hundred thousand kilometers long blast of superheated hydrogen plasma. The fact that this was just normal day-to-day operation of a G2 V star, and it would have consumed the entire planet of Earth, just is incomprehensible to most folks. And that is Sol just happily percolating away. It isn't even the actions of a nova, never mind a supernova.