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Re: Centre for Applied Eschatology

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Does it matter how long destroying the universe takes, since that's in the unsorted branch? The universe with the sorted list continues immediately, the cleanup is handled elsewhere.

I suppose it would depend on if your multiverse has stop-the-world GC or can do it concurrently.

The GC pauses clocks, too. There's no way to detect a pause from inside the universe.

Re: Centre for Applied Eschatology

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Cant we just attach all nukes to one side of the moon, make it explode so hard that it pushes the moon toward the earth that it hits like a cool asteroid? Haha

It would take some reengineering but you could probably convert the nukes to directed-energy rockets, harnessing the full power of the blast & using part of the moon itself as reaction mass. The problem though is still the amount of energy needed: In short, too much. Ball park estimate place it at about 4 10^28 joules, and a large nuker only puts out about 4 10^15. The theory is still sound though, and could be modif…

Not sure what happened with my formatting in my above comment, but they should read 4 x 10^28 etc.

Re: Centre for Applied Eschatology

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would take some reengineering but you could probably convert the nukes to directed-energy rockets, harnessing the full power of the blast & using part of the moon itself as reaction mass. The problem though is still the amount of energy needed: In short, too much. Ball park estimate place it at about 4 10^28 joules, and a large nuker only puts out about 4 10^15. The theory is still sound though, and could be modif…

Not sure what happened with my formatting in my above comment, but they should read 4 x 10^28 etc.

You can’t put asterisks in comments because they are used for markdown italics.
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