• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    If built and detonated, Sundial would have created a fireball up to 50 kilometers (30 miles) in diameter, instantly igniting everything within 400 kilometers (250 miles) and causing a magnitude 9 earthquake. It was thought that the explosion would lead to an apocalyptic nuclear winter, drastically lowering global temperatures and contaminating water sources, resulting in mass fatalities.

    If detonated at an altitude of 28 miles (45 km) the Sundial device could ignite fires across an area the size of France.

    The fuck is wrong with us?

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deM
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      that’s 50s nuclear weapons development for ya

      also probably didn’t help that it’s likely that Teller had autism and just wanted to make bigger bomb until he was removed from nuclear weapons design teams

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        so autism caused Musk to seig heil, and autism caused Teller to build doomsday devices. so basically Dr. Strangelove is autism’s final form. (/s)