Six degrees of Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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There is a popular hypothesis, known as six degrees of separation, holding that any two people are separated by a chain of no more than six acquaintances. Studying the characters of Wikipedia to see whether something similar obtains among its articles, Six Degrees of Wikipedia aims to be a compendium of the following things: [...]

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's a fun game: Start with one article, e.g. Nuclear Fusion, and click through the links until you get to get to another, previously defined article, e.g. Godzilla.

There is a solution in the linked article that these two articles are only two steps apart.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Mmm, Godzilla being a metaphor for nuclear weapons, means that there will be a link to that page and I'm sure nuclear weapons has a link to nuclear fusion.

Didn't even have to click for that, that was easy.

Try Godzilla and, I dunno, finger nails?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

You're basically correct, the link is through the page Castle Bravo detonation.

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