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so you're saying it will be relatively simple for other countries to do the same thing?

it's not much worse than usual explosives

firebombs and oreshnik aren't much worse than usual explosives

it's all journalism over-hyping (with hydrogen bomb naming)

that's what i was expecting at first.

Until recently, magnesium hydride could only be produced in laboratories at the pace of a few grams per day. This is because binding hydrogen with magnesium requires high temperatures and pressure. Accidental exposure to the air during the manufacturing process can lead to deadly explosions. Earlier this year, China launched a magnesium hydride plant in the northwestern province of Shaanxi that can produce a staggering 150 tonnes of the material per year. Developed by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, the plant has achieved low production costs using a “one-pot synthesis” method, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

if this last part is true, then they've overcome the industrial handling hurdle and can produce it at scale. i dunno if this one is just over-hyping.

that's very much what i'm imagining, yes, thank you, i appreciate your input as always ysgfwhsss

oh good, between this and hypersonic suborbital kinetic bombardment, we're really starting to see some of the weapons ww3 will be fought with! what fun!

The hydrogen bomb can cause extended thermal damage because the white-hot fireball it produces – sufficient to melt aluminium alloys – lasts much longer than TNT’s fleeting 0.12-second flash, according to the paper.

the device uses a magnesium-based solid-state hydrogen storage material. This material – a silvery powder known as magnesium hydride – stores considerably more hydrogen than a pressurised tank. It was originally developed to bring the gas to off-grid areas, where it could power fuel cells for clean electricity and heat.

The chain reaction begins when detonation shock waves fracture magnesium hydride into micron-scale particles, exposing fresh surfaces, according to the study. Thermal decomposition rapidly releases hydrogen gas, which mixes with ambient air. Upon reaching the lower explosive limit, the mixture ignites, triggering exothermic combustion. This liberated heat further propagates magnesium hydride decomposition, creating a self-sustaining loop until fuel exhaustion – a synergistic cascading of mechanical fracturing, hydrogen release, and thermal feedback, according to the paper.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

the trump administration seems to have a genuine goal here of wanting to restore domestic productive capacity, but they're all true believers in their own particular and sometimes conflicting kinds of farts, and trump is well known to be someone who gives a lot of weight to a well reasoned argument coming from whoever happens to be directly in front of him at the time. shorting the economy was a side benefit.

yeah she was visiting the oval office a couple days ago to talk about tariffs mostly

no wages, only spend

california will get high speed rail by 2050, but with maximal irony as part of the american century of humiliation. built by contractors from the people's republic of china starting in 2041 after decades of inaction by the california government, it will be completed by 2050.

and just in time for the big red button

wall street journal exclusive: https://archive.ph/x6EOw

probably a good call on the ninja edit, i didn't see the original.

but trump serves a similar function to the photo here. he really embodies the zeitgeist of the current crisis.

finally a good use for generative ai slop: fake benign incriminating evidence to upload to your burner phone to use as a limited hangout when crossing the border

the incarnation of the sense of alienation in 1979 post bretton woods and just before the reagan presidency, like we're hurtling through space on a poorly maintained corporate mining ship waiting for the sci-fi horrorshow to get started