So, a little thing that propped into my head was an interesting idea I had. So, let us say it is the year 2018, and a bunch of terrorists are able to smuggle a 10 kt nuclear device stolen from Pakistan (which fell into a civil war in late 2017). The device detonates, and all three branches of the...
So, a little thing that propped into my head was an interesting idea I had. So, let us say it is the year 2018, and a bunch of anti-Western terrorists are able to smuggle a 40 kt nuclear device stolen from Pakistan (which fell into a civil war in late 2017 after anti-government protests turned vi...
I've been looking at the question What brain resources are needed per limb? The OP originally included the hard-science tag, but there's since been some disagreement about its use. Someone removed the tag in an edit, then I rolled the edit back, then there were some flags asking for its removal, ...
Use a Quasi-star.
The solution I think will finally work is to use a quasi-star, a theoretical object from the early universe consisting of a black hole of perhaps $10^{1\text{-}2}M_{\odot}$ surrounded by a gas envelope of up to $10^{3\text{-}4}M_{\odot}$. These objects generated energy from gra...
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