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Science: Everything explained by PV=nRT, F=ma=Gm(1)•m(2)/r^2

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RaceBoarder said:
There is a lot that needs to go right to get a nuclear detonation. Sure you have the reaction itself. But the means to get that to happen occur through quite a bit of mechanical means. So Mechanical Engineers would need to do their part. I'm sure structural engineers do a ton of work with the "delivery" system as well.

A nuke is one of the most complex devices mankind has ever built. It's not just one or three people that have their work in the kitchen with this.
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….nor for something even as simple as a pencil:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
 
LynahFan said:
Well, the theoretical physics behind a fission weapon have been worked out for a good long time - not all the way to the actual Manhattan project (some of that was purely experimental), but not all that long after it. It’s why the US agreed to stop weapons testing - we’ve already got the theory down cold. Hit a mass of the right isotopes at the right density with enough neutrons at the right energy, and the bomb will go. At this point, building the next gen bomb is almost entirely a pure engineering problem - there are thousands of ways to achieve those conditions, so it’s just about selecting the design that optimizes for the other things that you might care about, such as the volume, weight, cost, reliability, safety, etc of the device. Pure nuclear engineering.
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We've gotten the engineering down to such a point that "dial-a-yield" weapons have been available for decades.
 
No. It's my protest. Because it's dumb that priceless has taken it upon himself to make a political statement on behalf of USCHO and the board's community.

typically decisions like this have been because they have widespread community support. Like when we banned flaggy.

This ain't that.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
No. It's my protest. Because it's dumb that priceless has taken it upon himself to make a political statement on behalf of USCHO and the board's community.

typically decisions like this have been because they have widespread community support. Like when we banned flaggy.

This ain't that.
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Well, I have no idea what you are protesting
about.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
No. It's my protest. Because it's dumb that priceless has taken it upon himself to make a political statement on behalf of USCHO and the board's community.

typically decisions like this have been because they have widespread community support. Like when we banned flaggy.

This ain't that.
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I am so lost.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
It's not that the links don't work or the site doesn't exist. It's that priceless added Twitter dot com to the banned words list like f-ck
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So are you posting random tweets or something significant that has to do with science? I don’t do twitter, so I’m not really looking up what you don’t link to.
 
The problem dx is, your links aren't clickable. So your protest is making it so we can't read what you are talking about. You either have to post the article or add the headline.

But yes the hypocrisy of this is ridiculous. He must not like that people post mean things on Twitter about Di$ney...
 
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