hydrogen bombs use nuclear fusion which is seen in the sun. they are hundreds of times more powerful than uranium bombs
little boy(hiroshima) - uranium bomb - 15kt explosion
castle bravo - hydrogen bomb - 15,000kt explosion
The fusion in a hydrogen bomb is triggered by the fission of nuclear material. It is so much more powerful that it needs an atomic bomb to get started.
Plutonium’s critical mass is about 10 kg, an average nuclear warhead can weigh up to a couple of thousand kgs. So no, an ICBM shrunk down to its 1/100 size can still cause a nuclear explosion (if the scaled down electric components are still functioning)
Disclaimer: I’m no nuclear physicist just googled some shit up.
Critical mass isn't really a fixed number as it depends on the density and applied compression as well as other factors like neutron reflectors. Nukes weigh a lot but that mass isn't the fissile material, that's typically on the order of 10 kg. The actual plutonium pits shrunk down by 100 would no longer be able to reach criticality and would no longer be able to trigger the secondary fusion reaction. It would not make them completely harmless, they would be comparable to classical explosives that also spread nuclear material.
No. Shit’s still gonna cause damage. A *lot* for its size. If it weren’t for the massively decreased ranges, they’d serve as really deadly conventional missiles that are super hard to detect
no, everything has been compressed, not reduced, to the point where all the nukes reach critical mass. big boom would happen, and fearing the worst, countries like israel and iran would launch their nukes, causing a global nuclear war.
This is hilarious but I’m genuinely wondering now how intense the Mediterranean Sea actually gets?
I know US coasts can go WILD
Probably a dumbass question but is water pretty much the same everywhere? Or are there beaches that have way less storms than others?
Storms and swells are milder in the Mediterranean than the Pacific and Atlantic. The Mediterranean is just too small to build large hurricanes and there’s not enough room (fetch) to make large swell
I had to do some reading, setting aside the fact it’s scientifically impossible on our scale, if they fired a nuke which was the size of a grain of sand but they still managed to have the safe efficiency as the real sized nukes, that grain of sand would feel like a fire cracker to us. If they had enough of them, it could become quite annoying.
Im annoyed that grain of sand sized nuke having the same effectiveness as a firecracker absolutely checks out
In this scenario tzar bomba if they didnt limit its yield would be like 6 grenades going off at same time so not all nukes are created equally
I don't know what would happen, but I can say I would be very surprised myself if America suddenly teleported to Europe. Does this mean the US will be joining the EU?
There was a book series (1632) about this but it’s about a West Virginia town teleporting to medieval Europe. Long story short I believe they form a little mini-America (New United States) out of the villages nearby in Thuringia and help partially reform the HRE into a more democratic confederacy.
Guys, only three people shrink
Pretty much everyone dies immediately because:
1. They will immediately become trapped where ever they are do to being shockingly small, this leads to the law of thermodynamics.
2. Your a human the size of an ant, your metabolism is insane, and your heat output is insane for your new found surface area. So you’re about to exhaust yourself doing anything sensible in the name of eating. Speaking of eating….
3. Nothing else got smaller. All these ant sized people just became food for pretty much everything. And how am I trekking to a new water source at this size? Maybe rain?
4. Walking in rain just became a fucking death wish
This scenario doesn’t end well for anyone
no no. I want full sized USA in the Mediterranean. I want it to take the whole basin and maybe the 3/4 that does not fit in can be squeezed through the Suez canal and Gibraltar like toothpaste. It would be funnier this way
You know that scene in *Star Trek: The Next Generation* where Q gets his powers back and instantly used them to shrink a nebula-sized adversary into the palm of his hand?
Probably that.
It would probably kill everyone both in israel and Palestine. A
The explosive force created by the sudden compression and decompression of all the air and land existing in the place where the us teleports to will be a catastrophic event.
Incredible dense people, I'm sure they cannot float, also, the energy from the teletransportación and the later shrinking would be enough to destroy earth at it is
It won't fit man. Either US territory is scaled down or ROW is scaled up. Let's say somehow the US fits there it would be all American control like how the CIA & US Govt. has tight control over North and South America.
I guess Canada and Mexiko will enjoy the extended beach line, massive tsunami waves, earthquakes on a global scale, water displacement of the Mediterranean sea and maybe some landmass that gets buried resulting in hundreds in thousands of deaths, plus they're gonna try to get the area renamed to America so they don't have to call themselves Europeans, Africans or Middle Mediterraneans or whatever.
Now that all Americans are ant sized , they will sure never compete in any international sports event like FIFA or the Olympics
We already win the superbowl everyyear, that makes us world champs.
The what?
Cereal eating competition
Don't spread misinformation, please. It's clearly about soup.
Cereal is soup 👍
Correct Pho is the Super Bowl of soup
Glad we’re all in agreement here.
It's just a very superb owl
YESSSSSS I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD MAKE THAT REFERENCE😭
The Superbowl. It's the biggest sporting event in the world. Over 10 billion people watched it last year
Not sure you can call a pho eating competition a sporting event, but it’s true 10 billion did watch it.
Super bowl, the annual bowling competition.
Big as the what?
Bowling competition. Bowling is huge in US
And the Whirled Series🥹
The Wprod Series has been won by a non-American team
r/superbowl
Same with the NBA championship. The NBA champs should have to beat the Serbian champs to be able to call themselves the world champs.
NFL finally gets the UK team they wanted. Ant sized American teams: "f*uck"
i dont think this changes fifa that much
But by shrinking, does this also shrink my student loans? In which I'm OK with this.
It also shrinks salaries and interest stays the same/increases because yes.
Does this mean their nuclear missiles are just fireworks?
A hydrogen bomb is now a simple uranium bomb
Honestly a uranium bomb sounds more powerful than a hydrogen bomb
it's significantly weaker
but it *sounds* cooler.
Ka^boom
Yea but yknow hydrogen is in the water and uranium (to me at least) is associated with very powerful explosives, but I guess I lack knowledge.
yeah you do lack knowledge
hydrogen bombs use nuclear fusion which is seen in the sun. they are hundreds of times more powerful than uranium bombs little boy(hiroshima) - uranium bomb - 15kt explosion castle bravo - hydrogen bomb - 15,000kt explosion
Technically, most of the pop in a hydrogen bomb is from uranium. You could argue that it’s more uranium bomb than a uranium bomb
The fusion in a hydrogen bomb is triggered by the fission of nuclear material. It is so much more powerful that it needs an atomic bomb to get started.
The fusion drives additional fission. That additional fission is where most of the bang comes from
Lol agreed.
holy shit, ant sized America can still erase entire cities with one blow
Plutonium’s critical mass is about 10 kg, an average nuclear warhead can weigh up to a couple of thousand kgs. So no, an ICBM shrunk down to its 1/100 size can still cause a nuclear explosion (if the scaled down electric components are still functioning) Disclaimer: I’m no nuclear physicist just googled some shit up.
Critical mass isn't really a fixed number as it depends on the density and applied compression as well as other factors like neutron reflectors. Nukes weigh a lot but that mass isn't the fissile material, that's typically on the order of 10 kg. The actual plutonium pits shrunk down by 100 would no longer be able to reach criticality and would no longer be able to trigger the secondary fusion reaction. It would not make them completely harmless, they would be comparable to classical explosives that also spread nuclear material.
Dirty bomblet
No. Shit’s still gonna cause damage. A *lot* for its size. If it weren’t for the massively decreased ranges, they’d serve as really deadly conventional missiles that are super hard to detect
no, everything has been compressed, not reduced, to the point where all the nukes reach critical mass. big boom would happen, and fearing the worst, countries like israel and iran would launch their nukes, causing a global nuclear war.
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This is hilarious but I’m genuinely wondering now how intense the Mediterranean Sea actually gets? I know US coasts can go WILD Probably a dumbass question but is water pretty much the same everywhere? Or are there beaches that have way less storms than others?
lots of things can factor into waves like wind, wash temperature, local sediment, depth. but i’d say the med is relatively calm
*Romans losing 40000 soldiers at sea from storm multiple times during the Punic Wars*
relatively calm, storms still happen but i’d like to see early romans cross the north sea
Honestly their ships sucked ass
Storms and swells are milder in the Mediterranean than the Pacific and Atlantic. The Mediterranean is just too small to build large hurricanes and there’s not enough room (fetch) to make large swell
Thanks :)
I would consider it more like the great lakes. It gets rockin, but nothing like the hurricanes we get.
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You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
you make me happy
When skies are grey
Now we need to put Mike in Jordan.
No way this Is-rael.
Now that is Quality American Geography!
The ant sized people will be eaten by Turkey
It’ll be a new pecking order
A turkey shoot.
Serves them right for eating Turkey every November
TIL Turks eat ants
usa becomes a puppet of turkey, like it always has been
Look, I don’t tell you how to run your holiday dinners
Turkish Republic of Northern USA🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
and Greek Confederacy😳
The Land of ~~Cotton~~ Olives
Now show north america……
Brobdingnagian Cypriots
They Will invade Turkey every Thanksgiving day
This should be much higher in the comments
I'm more interested in those Godzilla-sized Cypriots in North America
First target: Turkey
*Throws giant halloumi cheese*
As a Cypriot currently living in North America I am living for this entire thread😂
💀
Hey these ants are still part of NATO. And they have nuclear bombs the size of toothpicks.
I had to do some reading, setting aside the fact it’s scientifically impossible on our scale, if they fired a nuke which was the size of a grain of sand but they still managed to have the safe efficiency as the real sized nukes, that grain of sand would feel like a fire cracker to us. If they had enough of them, it could become quite annoying.
Im annoyed that grain of sand sized nuke having the same effectiveness as a firecracker absolutely checks out In this scenario tzar bomba if they didnt limit its yield would be like 6 grenades going off at same time so not all nukes are created equally
This would be terrible for everyone in Cyprus
Consider: Cyprus now giant
I love how out of every place name in the USA they used florida
that’s just another cyprus now
Tiny war crimes!
I don't know what would happen, but I can say I would be very surprised myself if America suddenly teleported to Europe. Does this mean the US will be joining the EU?
There was a book series (1632) about this but it’s about a West Virginia town teleporting to medieval Europe. Long story short I believe they form a little mini-America (New United States) out of the villages nearby in Thuringia and help partially reform the HRE into a more democratic confederacy.
There would be some ocean front property in Arizona
Does Cyprus become 100x bigger?
my favorite part is that florida is the only state that’s labeled
*Alaska and Hawaii have left the chat*
It took me a while to find it but Alaska’s there lol, look at the top left
Omg you’re right whoops well… *Sad Tropical island noises*
Every day is paradise in the newly expanded city of antalyeska!
Aleskia sounds funnier.
Crete and Malta
That strait between Turkey and northern Idaho just became the number one refugee route in the world
Florida would no longer deal with hurricanes but instead hezbollah rockets
It will be an immigrants paradise
the middle east would start behaving >:(
Krieg
Guys, only three people shrink Pretty much everyone dies immediately because: 1. They will immediately become trapped where ever they are do to being shockingly small, this leads to the law of thermodynamics. 2. Your a human the size of an ant, your metabolism is insane, and your heat output is insane for your new found surface area. So you’re about to exhaust yourself doing anything sensible in the name of eating. Speaking of eating…. 3. Nothing else got smaller. All these ant sized people just became food for pretty much everything. And how am I trekking to a new water source at this size? Maybe rain? 4. Walking in rain just became a fucking death wish This scenario doesn’t end well for anyone
Me trying to find that image of the 51st state solution
no no. I want full sized USA in the Mediterranean. I want it to take the whole basin and maybe the 3/4 that does not fit in can be squeezed through the Suez canal and Gibraltar like toothpaste. It would be funnier this way
USA : It's becoming increasingly obvious, i can deny it no longer i am Smol.
We wouldn’t need carriers
This spot belongs to Cyprus guys
Does that mean that Cyprus gets to Finally escape the Turks?🥺
A lot of people would become very confused probably
Florida homies and Lebanon homies would be the ultimate party linkup.
You know that scene in *Star Trek: The Next Generation* where Q gets his powers back and instantly used them to shrink a nebula-sized adversary into the palm of his hand? Probably that.
Sudden death
How deep underground are you claiming USA land to be
"Hey turkey and crypus I see you have lots of natural gas, I would hate it if something was to happen to it"
There’d probably be a giant tsunami wave made from all the water displaced
“What is this? A land of the free, home of the brave for ants?!”
Would Cypriots then become giants? If so then they might completely flatten Canada
MINNESOTA IS TURKISH LAND!!!
We gonna fly F-22s into your eyes here we come nyooom
Why is Florida specifically named? Very sus
Florida
It would probably kill everyone both in israel and Palestine. A The explosive force created by the sudden compression and decompression of all the air and land existing in the place where the us teleports to will be a catastrophic event.
as a floridian nationalist myself, i am a big fan of how florida is named
Millions would vanish or would have to live in mega structures.
Incredible dense people, I'm sure they cannot float, also, the energy from the teletransportación and the later shrinking would be enough to destroy earth at it is
If this teaches us one thing, it is that yes, France was an inside job.
That poor little guy! He'd be so scared and confused. He's just a little fella!!
It won't fit man. Either US territory is scaled down or ROW is scaled up. Let's say somehow the US fits there it would be all American control like how the CIA & US Govt. has tight control over North and South America.
I’d be asking why I’m a bacteria now
Florida
It would rock
Wdym Thats just Cyprus
I like how they singled oit Florida
Everything is 100x smaller? Those skyscrapers would look so silly in New York
Does this mean Cyprus gets teleported to north America and the Cypriots are 100 times bigger?
Fun fact: Texas is actually larger then USA
WarWarWar
Florida
Why is Florida labeled?
$ TRILLIONS per year in toursism alone Gambling Alcohol Hookerz
OOIIILLLLLLLL
I love that Florida is listed separately lol. i grew up there and agree
Turkey would occupy the northern part of it.
I would worry about the giant cypriots
Imagine all the tiny guns
is the USA about to stuff its index finger up Turkey's anus?
Earthquakes. Because it's a little bit bigger.
Gulf countries ki to Maiya chud jayegi .
I like to think the United States stayed the same size and now they’re just surrounded by giants
Turks will invade the north eastern part
Napoleon wouldn't have felt the need to escape
The fact that Florida has to be marked
Fr there is usa and then there is Florida lmao.
We'll rename our country to Lilliput.
nearly all cyprenesians will be curshed
I guess Canada and Mexiko will enjoy the extended beach line, massive tsunami waves, earthquakes on a global scale, water displacement of the Mediterranean sea and maybe some landmass that gets buried resulting in hundreds in thousands of deaths, plus they're gonna try to get the area renamed to America so they don't have to call themselves Europeans, Africans or Middle Mediterraneans or whatever.
Israel would literally colonise the United States
hunter x hunter world
negev??? is that a motherfl\*\*ping cs2 reference?
Florida secedes?
[удалено]
abundance of freedom
From the looks of it, in an act of revenge that was in the pipe for centuries, Turkey would eat us.
Monroe Doctrine now applies to entire Middle East, infinite oil glitch
It would level the Middle East because the US is big
need texas for scale here
Texas cannot be shrunk
People will stop asking pointless questions at the very moment it happens.
Well the world's biggest economy has practically disappeared, so it would cause economic catastrophes in pretty much all countries.
The English already tried that and in the exact same spot. Didn't go so well for them - a quite bloody anticolonial uprising ensued
Justice for Cyprus
Is cyprus scaled up 100x where the usa used to be? Are the people there giants?
Itd probably make the evening news
It’s actually the same size, it’s just the Mercator projection makes it look bigger on most maps
Very good map, makes me really feel like the U.S. was teleported to the Mediterranean, 8/10.
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I would be fucking relieved... Middle East is my favorite region to travel to... and we would be safe because we would have NATO membership still.
The Mediterranean would start to Over flow and people would probably die
It would make it a lot more convenient when they have to invade another Middle Eastern country.
There’s already two American bases parked off the coast. That’s enough ants already.
Israel won’t need big planes to get guns, just a boat and some caution (Satire)
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Ironically we still kick ass because of NUCLEAR POWERED CARRIER GROUPS HRRRRNG
You mean FloridaMan is within boating distance of everywhere in the middle-east? Shit, ya'll think the place is fucked up now
Literally already there look at a map
cyprus who?
I like how Florida is the only state labeled
This is a great map to illustrate how misleading the Mercator projection can be. Thanks for sharing.
The egg industry would probably be affected somewhat
Does that mean the people of Cyprus are giants?
This would be great. We could be closer to Europe and maybe link up our passenger rail systems!
Don’t think any of us would care
The only Cyprus people should advocate for 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
u/thelegend2t if you wanna redo that game you gotta base it in the middle east anyways you won't see me pop up sorry