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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Krita is awesome with a drawing pad

And I'm not like even good at doing anything

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk man I discovered some pretty entertaining flash games, and never got into IRC. But them AOL public chat rooms, holy fucking shit how did we not all disappear

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did we just solve the rent/housing crisis?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I get that part, it's still the reaction I can't wrap my head around mainly because I don't understand how chemistry is any different than alchemy.

I know that lithium itself doesnt fuse to create He+T+D, and I know it can't undergo fission. Since lithium isn't left over, and lithium-6 and 7 are stable, does that mean the neutron with extremely high kinetic energy really knocks like two of the LiD mokecules into each other, causing dueterium -dueterium fusion resulting in He4, and the Li6 gets more neutrons that for it to be come unstable enough to decay into tritium or deuterium?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, that's why we haven't used it in weapons yet.

I figured because any amount of usedul antimatter annihilateing causes gamma rays that cook the planet, but $60T makes it a bit more prohibitive

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean if we really want to be technically accurate here, the lithium is just a moderater for the hydrogen isotopes to fuse.

But for me it gets fuzzy when looking at the reaction.

LiD is 4 protons, 8 neutrons. Add a new neutron, and bam, you have 4 protons and 9 neutrons. But that's where it gets weird to me. The lithium needs to decay or something into a tritium and dueterium which forces the tritium to fuse with the existing dueterium in the LiD molecule? Clearly the neutron has enough energy to transfer into one of the atoms to increase the chance of tunneling actually occuring.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I suppose we can empirically test that. Time to fuck around and find out i guess

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Does

That work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You know the first time I responded to the article, my brain rejected the title so I made a fun dumb meme.

Now my brain understands the title is real, and it doesn't understand that reality is bullshit

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well. Might as well say it now: if they're going to take you down, take as many with you as you can.

Because if you end up in a foreign prison, you probably aren't coming back.

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