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originally posted by: BASSPLYR
SO this False Vacuum bomb. You realize this makes little sense. Hows it supposed to work. Drop the universe from some false vacuum to it's true vacuum or something. Or take it out of a true vacuum (if it exists) and put it in a false vacuum to dump it back down to it's original state? Either way. Your False Vacuum bomb would destroy the entire known universe at the speed of light. Just an ever expanding bubble of death. Pretty sure the aliens are going to be pissed were building something like that. Maybe thats why they abduct people every night and probe them.
False Vacuum Bomb isn't one of them. But I'm not going to shine any light on that one.
originally posted by: B2StealthBomber
a reply to: imjack
You realise how stupid this is right, even if that was the case you'd have other atom in your lab spinning creating the same condition.
Secondly without getting right into it you can't just spin an atom and create a nuclear bomb..
mehbeh. or mehbeh the govt has high res neutrino detectors that can spot a smoke detector at a range of 10 light years. (through planets...)
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: B2StealthBomber
a reply to: Bedlam
as you would already know the U.s can monitor the telltale signs of a nuke from a satellite, wouldn't Russia have the same sort of things regarding depositing them into cities?
We've got nuke detonation detectors all over. Some are in the GPS sats.
They pick up gamma bursts, x-rays and the characteristic double flash of a nuke. But they can't find a nuke that's just sitting there.
Well designed nukes don't emit a lot of radiation. You won't find them easily. The Hollywood meme that they're just crawling with radiation is a script-writer's mistake.
originally posted by: stormbringer1701
mehbeh. or mehbeh the govt has high res neutrino detectors that can spot a smoke detector at a range of 10 light years. (through planets...)
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: B2StealthBomber
a reply to: Bedlam
as you would already know the U.s can monitor the telltale signs of a nuke from a satellite, wouldn't Russia have the same sort of things regarding depositing them into cities?
We've got nuke detonation detectors all over. Some are in the GPS sats.
They pick up gamma bursts, x-rays and the characteristic double flash of a nuke. But they can't find a nuke that's just sitting there.
Well designed nukes don't emit a lot of radiation. You won't find them easily. The Hollywood meme that they're just crawling with radiation is a script-writer's mistake.
a typical burst releases as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime
a few per galaxy per million years
originally posted by: stormbringer1701
mehbeh. or mehbeh the govt has high res neutrino detectors that can spot a smoke detector at a range of 10 light years. (through planets...)
originally posted by: Bedlam
a reply to: anonentity
Countries got lots of unguarded border and/or sea coastlines. Not that tough to bring in some here, some there.
originally posted by: Bedlam
Oh, were you actually serious here?
U-235 occurs naturally. So if you sit back and look at the world from geosynchronous orbit, you're going to see an endless amount. Also, neutrino detectors aren't real big on directionality. And you can't put one in space. Unless you're building a Really Big geosynchronous detector.
Same thing with using something more prosaic, like a gamma ray spectrometer. Just a gamma ray detector won't do - there are so many things that produce gammas that you just can't say much with a super sensitive detector other than 'yep, there's a flux of so many rays per second per area". A gamma ray spectrometer, properly maintained (an issue!) can tell you 'hey, that one might have come from a plutonium decay', if, that is, that gamma ray hasn't interacted with something and been re-radiated a bit different than it came in. But again, there's plutonium all over. So what you can tell is 'look, we caught a unicorn gamma ray from some plutonium somewhere down on the ground' and that's all you'll know.
The awful truth is, these instruments are not very (at all) directional. And plutonium, as scary as it is, does not decay all that quickly. And the bomb casing/tamper/other bits tend to contain it anyway. Assuming that it sends out gamma rays in a sphere, statistically, most of the rays will not depart in a way that intersects the detector of a satellite. By most, I mean 'effectively all'. So your very low flux at the bomb will become nil at the bird.
Sorry, but that's the way it is.