Surely a nuke isn't the theoretical limits of a destructive device

1. 2023-08-14 at 10:29 AM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   anti graity matter collapsing something that creates a black hole , a mini black hole maybe.
   
   Imagine if we could create mini black holes on earth and slowly pepper the planet with density so high that it slowly eats the planet and our galaxy itself MUH FALLOUT MUH NUCLEAR WINTER
   
   this could eat the sun and swallow it like a slurping a spagetti noodle
   
   https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/02/20/some-black-holes-erase-your-past
   
   
2. 2023-08-14 at 10:38 AM UTC

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   Cowboy2013 African Astronaut

   Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood anti graity matter collapsing something that creates a black hole , a mini black hole maybe.
   
   Imagine if we could create mini black holes on earth and slowly pepper the planet with density so high that it slowly eats the planet and our galaxy itself MUH FALLOUT MUH NUCLEAR WINTER
   
   this could eat the sun and swallow it like a slurping a spagetti noodle
   
   https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/02/20/some-black-holes-erase-your-past
   
   

   
   FIFY (for real this time) tell me when you see it
   
   
   But I imagine your house is full of disassembled electronics and appliances from you trying to build one? How's it going?
3. 2023-08-14 at 10:54 AM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   Microwave chemistry is the future
   
   https://erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/mw.newscientist.html
4. 2023-08-14 at 11:23 AM UTC

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   kick Tuskegee Airman [discourteously tickle this dendrolagus]
   A black hole is nuclear reaction
5. 2023-08-14 at 11:27 AM UTC

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   kick Tuskegee Airman [discourteously tickle this dendrolagus]
   At this point, to create a stronger weapon you would have to take stuff away that you want to destroy to build the weapon, thus leaving you with less stuff to destroy.
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6. 2023-08-14 at 1:50 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
   An anti matter bomb is what you want.
7. 2023-08-14 at 3:15 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

   Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson An anti matter bomb is what you want.

   
   Is a bomb really the "MOST POWERFUL" thing we can come up with though? Because all I can think of above a nuke is some kinda "implosion dark hole" bomb but I feel like it's just because I can't imagine something more destructive.
   
   Okay that's not true. The rings from halo are pretty neat, maybe the deathstar.
   
   

   "Halo doesn't kill Flood, it kills their food! Humans, Covenant, whatever—we're all equally edible! The only way to stop the Flood is to starve them to death. And that's exactly what Halo is designed to do: wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life!"

   
   

   The seven installations in the final Halo Array function via form of lethal radiation designed to kill all sentient life in the installation's three-dimensional radius of 25,000 light-years; when fired in concert with the rest of the Array, this sterilizing effect covers the entire galaxy.

   
   
   
   
   That's obviously not something we will see in our lifetime though so i'm wondering if there's something that's not a bomb, greater than a nuke, less than a deathstar.
   
   I feel like there's something there that maybe could exist in our lifetime, I have no idea what.
8. 2023-08-14 at 3:18 PM UTC

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   Bradley Florida Man
   i can build two with one microwave if you give me some tinfoil as well.
9. 2023-08-14 at 7:36 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

   Originally posted by Bradley Is a bomb really the "MOST POWERFUL" thing we can come up with though?

   
   
   Well an antimatter bomb isn't really a bomb...it's just the complete annihilation of matter in a handy carrying case...which obviously would require some sort of force filed around it so as not to annihilate the case..
10. 2023-08-14 at 7:40 PM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    Yeah I was thinking such a thing would be more like a "device" than a bomb but I mean a "dirty bomb" is hardly a bomb too, or it doesn't always have to be at least. You can irradiate an area without a massive explosion.
    
    
11. 2023-08-14 at 7:43 PM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    I could build this
    
    
    
12. 2023-08-14 at 8:23 PM UTC

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    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
    The red matter from Star Trek will do it.
    
    
13. 2023-08-14 at 9:25 PM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    reminds me of red mercury
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury
    
    
    
14. 2024-05-02 at 11:39 PM UTC

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    CodeNiggHardR Houston
    how would you test it though? Diminishing returns if no one is around to measure the results
15. 2024-06-04 at 5:40 PM UTC

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    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
    On Wariat
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16. 2024-10-01 at 11:33 PM UTC

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    Fluttershy Short Bussy

    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood Yeah I was thinking such a thing would be more like a "device" than a bomb but I mean a "dirty bomb" is hardly a bomb too, or it doesn't always have to be at least. You can irradiate an area without a massive explosion.
    
    
    First they come for the mad scientist, next they come for the mad grad student.

17. 2024-10-02 at 12:19 AM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    grey ghouls are real
    
    

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18. 2024-10-02 at 12:45 AM UTC

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    Gridlocke Houston
    The energy densities involved in making an artificial black hole are just not something we can produce now. We can conceive of it, we just can't do it at any time in the reasonably foreseeable future.
    
    If you just wanna speculate what's possible, there's theoretical ways to turn an existing supermassive black hole into a bomb essentially using the Penrose process. This would probably be the most destructive force we could possibly generate artificially in this universe.
    
    The physics on how to do it are pretty well understood, not that speculative at all. It's just practically infeasible for at least the next hundred thousand years or so probably.
    
    Something technically possible in our lifetime more powerful than a nuke would be something like an antimatter bomb, like that other guy said, in terms of energy per unit mass.
19. 2024-10-02 at 5:45 AM UTC

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    Kingoftoes Tuskegee Airman
    Botulinum Aerosol.
    
    
    Imagine if you could clear a population center of nearly all inhabitants while it remains habitable in the future?
    
    That is all.
20. 2024-10-02 at 1:25 PM UTC

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    Gridlocke Houston

    Originally posted by Kingoftoes Botulinum Aerosol.
    
    
    Imagine if you could clear a population center of nearly all inhabitants while it remains habitable in the future?
    
    That is all.

    
    If you wanna just kill a lot of people without damaging infrastructure, we can take that idea to a logical and technical extreme as well.
    
    Shoot the earth with ionizing radiation channeled from a star. Doesn't have to even be our own star, it can happen from light years away and we wouldn't see it coming basically until it got here. A sustained beam for a couple days or weeks would sterilize the planet.
    
    Like a cosmic disinfection protocol
    
    This might be why we don't see any aliens. One alien got this ability first and is currently wiping everyone else out as soon as they're detected.