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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (4 children)

This is not true, for the same reason you can't bake a batch of cookies at 2300 degrees for 1 minute instead of 230 degrees for 10 minutes. I imagine delivering the amount of heat required to bake a pizza in the microseconds of a nuclear explosion would vaporize a substantial part of the explosion-facing side of the pizza while leaving the back frozen.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What if it's just enough to set the supermarket on fire and the cooler having enough insulation to have the perfect heat for baking?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, that might work. You don't need a nuclear explosion to set a supermarket on fire so it would be a lot easier to test!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

We need the Mythbusters back

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What if the pizza was being rotated perfectly on a 360° gimbal at the same frequency as the microwaves generated? Hypothetically that is of course

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think spinning the pizza at relativistic speeds only causes more problems. Household microwaves run at 2.45 GHz, and at 2.45 billion revolutions per second a 3.9cm diameter pizza would have an edge velocity of the speed of light (ignoring relativity, which I'm sure does not make things better).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Would it be possible to use the pepperoni as a source of fuel for this reactor?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

So we don’t even need a nuke? We can just spin it really fast and it’ll cook itself?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

maybe they arent actually close to the explosion and just get cooked by radiation?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you're thinking of the neutron and gamma radiation emitted, that happens on an even shorter time scale than the thermal radiation (nanoseconds IIRC) and is absorbed poorly in comparison by a pizza.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That just means you need more of it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We need a material in between pizza and nuke that absorbs the heat and then gives it off at a slower rate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That sounds like a billion dollar idea!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So are the potential customers, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I dunno, some of them might suddenly have a great deal of potential

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

See, to all you doubters, you didn't pay enough attention to the Hulk

See, what happens is that the pizza gets hit with the exact dose of gamma needed to kick start the transformation into Pizzulk. Then, the bottomless rage of pineapple haters fills it up, and cooks it from the inside out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

If only for a moment..