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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:

> On 10/20/2024 1:01 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> xkcd: Experimental Astrophysics
>>     https://xkcd.com/3000/
>> Um, no freaking way.
>> Explained at:
>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3000:_Experimental_Astrophysics
>> 
> The Manhattan Project thought there was a significant chance they'd
> ignite the Earth's atmosphere but detonated the bomb anyways just to
> see....

ObSF: Adam and No Eve, Alfred Bester, 1941

  -Don-