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The x-rays aren't just emitted in a single moment, they are the result of the initial core heating up to millions of degrees, so the light they emit just as a result of being hot is in the x-ray and lasts for some amount of time. This is long enough to generate the ionised air which continues to expand and absorb more x-rays until the initial core cools down somewhat. At that point you have a large amount of incredibly hot, incredibly high pressure plasma which then expands and causes the shockwave.

Heat alone is not insufficient, the heat generated is so intense that is turns the surrounding air into a plasma which then absorbs the x-rays emitted creating a stupendous over-pressure in the air which drives the shockwave.

Reactors don't explode because the amount of heat then generate is carefully monitored and matched the the rate at which that heat can be pulled from the reactor and converted into work.

The moon has an orbital velocity of ~1km/s, an M777 howitzer has a muzzle velocity of ~0.8km/s

There is no irony there, both statements are equally supported: not at all.

A ball dropped near the earth's surface will always fall towards the centre of the earth at ~9.81m/s^2 no matter what it has done previously.

A chunk of iron put into a 1μT magnetic field will behave differently depending on what other magnetic fields it has been in recently.

So you think diplomats are executed to send a message, there is just the appearance of them not being?

Again, what is meant by a rule based order is not that there are solid rules upheld consistently as in criminal law, just that there are norms which are usually obeyed.

Notably, Shakespeare lived in a time before copyright and famously ripped off plots from his contempories. I dont think he's a great reference for the argument that there would be no writing about the modern world if you removed copyright.

You could even pick a highly compound number like 2^3*3^2*5 then you could divide it neatly into whole numbers for lots of divisors!

A month is probably excessive, but there are large regions of the world where its not uncommon for both solar and wind power to be running at <5% for multiple weeks in a row.

Seems great, a keyboard shortcut for reading any text is nice and frictionless. I'd love to see a Linux version.

Of what use is an encyclopedia with "trash quality"?

No it isn't. Storage capacity for energy is expensive, if you want to have a grid that is largely dependent on intermittent sources and still have a stable grid providing power at all times you need large amounts of storage as well as generating capacity.

For example if nuclear costs 1bn for a GW and solar+wind costs 0.6bn but you need to also install 0.5bn of storage to make the grid reliable to the safety margin you deem acceptable then it is no longer a cheaper system.

Amount of storage needed scales up rapidly as you get towards an grid with entirely intermittent generation.

It is British, but actually using it dates you as still being stuck in the 90s (at the latest)

Doesn't matter, if this goes through as is you will have to submit photo-id and/or facial scans linking you to a google account in order to watch any youtube other than the kids section.

They were made into social media, but when they were aquired they were just video hosting and sms replacements with little (no?) social engagement aspect.

OTOH solar is a lot less useful in the UK than in the US. The southern tip of the UK is north of all the major Canadian cities, in the depths of winter we get about 6 hours of daylight with the sun barely reaching 20 degrees above the horizon. The winter is also where most electricity usage is too, doubly so when you want to replace gas heating with a heat pump. No AC and summer daylight past 10pm means that residential electricy usage in the summer, when solar does make sense, is very low.

They assert that they dont have them, in the same way you (presumably) assert that you do have them. Neither have any further evidence and one is not a prioi more likely than the other.

Not only has the UK not stopped building wind, they have over 30GW of installed wind capacity and sell electricity to Ireland for most of the year.