Comment by ozozozd

5 hours ago

“Self-sustaining reaction,” like the recursive self improvement?

Or perpetual machines?

Is physics no longer a main subject at schools?

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debugnik  3 hours ago

I assume the fear was an uninterrupted burn until the gas depletes, as in the Darvaza gas crater but atmosphere-wide.

angoragoats  1 hour ago

A self-sustaining reaction is exactly what happens with the fissionable material inside the nuclear weapon[0]. It seems like you’re trying to be pedantic on terminology here, but if you’re saying that a self-sustaining reaction is as un-scientific as a perpetual motion machine, you’re simply incorrect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_(status)