Food for thought: Tzar Bomba was meant to be a 100 Megaton device but for testing it was dialed back to an anticipated yield of 50 Mt with an actual yield of 47 Mt. The difference in the yield was almost three times that of the largest device currently in the US stockpile.
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Do you know why it was dialed back? The potential scared the Soviets. Brash early sixties Russian bear mentality, the sort that rushes in headlong with little care for safety... this thing frightened them.
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Let *THAT* sink in.
There are two main options when it comes to stars dying. either supernova, or downgrade to a lower class star. in the case of a lower class star, which is the most likely option as our sun does not have the mass to supernova, we could have to technology to create artificial heat to allow the earth to survive. On the other hand if our sun was capable of supernova the planet would be obliterated instead of just freezing.
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Do you know why it was dialed back? The potential scared the Soviets. Brash early sixties Russian bear mentality, the sort that rushes in headlong with little care for safety... this thing frightened them.
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Let *THAT* sink in.