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[–] Zangoose 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

ELI5 for people who don't know what project sundial is because I didn't know about it until I saw that video:

In the 1950's the guy who invented the Hydrogen nuclear bomb made a theoretical design for a bomb that would send the entire planet into a nuclear winter. The bomb would be detonated in somewhere in the US because it was so powerful that both the US and whoever on the globe they were trying to hit would get destroyed either way.

Here is the video the meme is referencing: https://youtu.be/E55uSCO5D2w

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

It would be even more fun to detonate the thing in the ground of Yellowstone.

[–] marcos 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this the inspiration for Dr. Strangelove?

I know stories about a scientists that made a "weapon vs. delivery method" table, where the delivery method first would grow and grow, then it started to shrink until it became "backyard" because it made no difference where the weapon exploded. I have no idea if those were related, and how often people came to that conclusion that "hey, if we increase our bombs just this much, they don't need to be bombs anymore".

[–] Zangoose 2 points 1 day ago

I'm going to assume no to your first part since a lot of the documents surrounding the project are only being declassified now (and a lot of the details are still classified apparently)

To your second part, I was paraphrasing but the video I linked also called it a "backyard bomb" so the the project was probably being worked on around the time the terminology for that "scale" was made

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I never wished for this!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Prepare to be projected!

[–] edgemaster72 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ok, but hear me out: nuke the inauguration. Sorry people in/around DC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This is pretty much how The Handmaiden's Tale book goes. "Terrorists" nuke DC and some Christian fundamentalists take over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah with that thing they will just be the first... We would all be dead... Wich is kinda the point of the cool bomb.

[–] edgemaster72 4 points 1 day ago

But at least I could die knowing those assholes died first

[–] Kyrgizion 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Meh, I prefer SLAM instead. What's the fun in building a superweapon if you can never use it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So you think I wouldn't use it? I would solve climate change with the press of a single button.

[–] CrazyLikeGollum 5 points 1 day ago

You would cause climate change in the form of nuclear winter with the press of a button.

I like it cold, press the button.

[–] SpaceNoodle 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What does Simultaneous Localization And Mapping have to do with this?

[–] Kyrgizion 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Google project Pluto. It was only marginally less crazy than project Sundial.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Actually way more useful and contributed to science tbh.

A bomb that is basically just "fuck this world" is waaaaay more reckless and cool.

[–] marcos 2 points 1 day ago

This is way, way less crazy. It doesn't even compare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what in the Elon Musk is this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Its based and he is not.

[–] GrammarPolice 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wrong Sundial!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Please trigger yourself 👉👈

[–] GrammarPolice 5 points 1 day ago

Oops. You can go back to sleep now