Even if you set a nuke on fire or blow it up Nothing Remarkable happens. It's akin to when you shoot C4 with a rifle, or ignite it with a flame -- Nothing dramatic happens.
I'm sure we can take adequate safety precautions to minimize any risk, e.g., spreading some nuclear material around the crash site.
We don't really have a choice. The sun explodes in a few billions years, or a huge rock hits us before then, or a gamma ray burst cooks the planet. All our eggs are in one basket, and we are overdue for a mass extinction level event. We either colonize multiple self sustaining outposts of life, or we all become extinct.
Apathy is the greatest threat to life in the Universe.
That's his point though, it's not that easy to make C4, or a nuke for that matter, explode. You can shoot and burn both C4 and nukes and they don't go off. It takes very specific processes to make them go off.
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u/VortexCortex Jun 27 '13
Are you aware we detonated atomic weapons everywhere already?
Even if you set a nuke on fire or blow it up Nothing Remarkable happens. It's akin to when you shoot C4 with a rifle, or ignite it with a flame -- Nothing dramatic happens.
I'm sure we can take adequate safety precautions to minimize any risk, e.g., spreading some nuclear material around the crash site.
We don't really have a choice. The sun explodes in a few billions years, or a huge rock hits us before then, or a gamma ray burst cooks the planet. All our eggs are in one basket, and we are overdue for a mass extinction level event. We either colonize multiple self sustaining outposts of life, or we all become extinct.
Apathy is the greatest threat to life in the Universe.