Talcosis

Farnsworth fusor is what demonstrated the viability of nuclear fusion, and understanding it is step one in making a functional fusion reactor.

Because I value the gain and spread of knowledge above all else.

You will note that I didn’t give you exact instructions, just pointed you in the right directions. None of this is easy, but it is doable. There are maybe a couple thousand Farnsworth fusors in personal operation across the world, for technology that has existed for 70 years.

Someone who just wants to cause harm can go buy a gun. The direction I just pointed you in leads to an illustrious career in genuinely useful engineering. Or failure, followed by doing something else.

Maybe you’ll discover an interest. Maybe you’ll go on to revolutionize fusion energy, which has been just ten years of R&D away since the 50s. Probably you’ll have a laugh and move on.

Scaling is the big issue. If you do what I described, you’re probably not even going to be a danger to yourself (apart from the high voltage), unless you are able to rapidly industrialize this. Of course, of you were capable of rapidly industrializing this, you wouldn’t need me to point you in the right direction.

You probably won’t be able to get enough material for a true cobalt bomb.

What you could do, however, is build a Farnsworth fusor. That’s very doable in a basement using…relatively easily acquired parts. As long as you keep the operating voltage under 30kV you won’t need lead shielding, but you won’t be getting many neutrons either. Get a couple plates of lead, get yourself a bunch of cobalt salts (ask someone that does glass art) and put them in the reactor chamber. Then crank that bitch up as high as your transformer will let you, and soon you’ll have radioactive cobalt. Then you go to a gun store and buy a block of tannerite, US gun culture makes this a commonly available explosive, and tape the cobalt to it.

Now you have a salted dirty bomb.

If you’re feeling really lucky, you could try modifying a time-of-flight mass spectrometer to integrate into your reactor chamber vacuum output, allowing you to collect reasonably pure tritium in tiny amounts. Get enough of that, add some deuterium, figure out a way to ignite it, and you have a thermonuclear device.

Edit: if you manage to pull off any of this, that will be impressive. Reach out to your local university, and collect an honorary degree in mechanical, electrical, or nuclear engineering.

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Umm. Not really? I’m kinda pulling together basic implosion-type nuke design, where you have a nuclear core surrounded by conventional shaped charges that are supposed to detonate and compress the nuclear core just prior to the nuclear reaction.

As you would expect, most governments are a bit touchy on details about military explosives that they use…I just happen to have done a decent amount of explosives R&D in the past. Picked up a few things.

Neglect measured on the scale of centuries might make them effectively safe…you need to have all the conventional explosives in the implosion shell fail to explode. If some of them fail, you likely won’t reach criticality in the warhead itself, in which case you just detonated a regular bomb that had enriched uranium shrapnel.

That being said, most modern explosives become less stable and more sensitive over time, not inert. So the implosion timing is gonna be off, which means no criticality. Just spreading radioactive material.

Ish? Personally, gamergate was my alarm bell, especially when I saw some of the stuff people were saying in the weirder corners.

They do expire. Problem is that there’s a lot of them. Fire 100 nukes, and even if 99% fail, that’s at least one mushroom cloud in the most fertile land on earth. And the ones that did expire become essentially dirty bombs.

I understand your point, and I consider it irrelevant. One of those fun side effects of having me define consciousness twice, and never contesting either definition directly…only indirectly implying that consciousness requires a human brain.

Normally crushed materials don’t work well because the shape of the particles. Sand is smoothed by years of waves, crushed rock is jagged. This leads to issues with viscosity.

A direct example: railroad rocks. Rail tracks are laid on very well engineered rocks, that are designed to lock together under the weight of a train. They have a roughly 1x1x2 cross sectional ratio, specifically for that purpose. You don’t want that happening when you pour concrete.

During the first term, I remember saying to someone: “never thought I’d say this, but right now I trust NK state media more than the president”

Right now, I trust Iranian state media more than the president.

Yep. Like you said/contradicted yourself. You don’t need memory to perceive time.

Nope. Just awareness that time passes. Memory is irrelevant.

I think the policy covers payouts for kids getting hit by cars between entering school property and walking into the building? That’s the only thing that makes sense.

Much like the rest of society, the only reason to leave the house must involve spending money. Otherwise, you’re just tricking poor billionaires and business owners by getting their hopes up and making them treat you nice, without adequate financial compensation.

Some school’s insurance policies prohibit kids from arriving in any way other than by parent’s car or school bus.

It’s the new going door to door or bothering people in the street. The idea is for the Christians to be told to fuck off, and then they go back to their church crying how mean people were when they tried to spread their good news, and the congregation can have a bonding moment about how mean the world outside of their church is.

Okay. Consciousness is the awareness of the passage of time.

A word that is just nonsensical enough to mean whatever you want it to mean, while still sounding adequately serious enough for serious discussion among serious people.

See also: freedom.

uhh, relevant username?

I would assume that the entirety of lemmy is being scraped by three letter agencies and their global equivalents. Hell, I assume that a small core minority of the tankies are actually state actors pushing statist propaganda, as lemmy does skew pretty left.