[-] alpine_jim@piefed.social 3 points 18 hours ago

i believe there was some early speculation that the unprecedented temperature of the Trinity test might ignite the atmosphere, somehow making the nitrogen burn, but that would be a chemical reaction, not a nuclear reaction.

[-] alpine_jim@piefed.social 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Alpha and beta decay are types of fission.

further, if you only want to look at fissions with similarly-sized daughter products, there are several micrograms of fissile atoms in each of us, so random fissions are indeed constantly happening.

[-] alpine_jim@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago

no, there are lots of atoms splitting inside your body every second.

a single U-235 atom's fission, releasing ~200MeV, (~30 picojoules), in ideal circumstances could maybe nudge a very small fine grain of sand (~ micrograms) enough to see movement (small fraction of a millimetre) under a microscope .

It takes months of refining to make nuclear fuel that's suitable for sustaining a chain reaction.

it's an interesting question, I'm glad I did the research checking that the orders of magnitude match!

[-] alpine_jim@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

it's possible, as long as the referee doesn't join in the Argentina side again.

Biggest robbery from Egypt since Howard Carter.

[-] alpine_jim@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

the order is because the fifa world cup has become a custody battle for Miku, that's the meme.

i predict Miku is going to be Argentinian next, then French for the next four years, or at least until the Euros.

[-] alpine_jim@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

she spent her career on a D'Derrydex class warbird.

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