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by itishappy 387 days ago
I feel like the moment you learn the relative scales, it's over, there's no going back.

There's a billion WWII ending atom bombs going off every day up there. How are we still ok?

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My preferred design for fusion reactors uses gravitational confinement and are placed 150 million miles away.
Don't forget a vacuum or else you will cook and deafen yourself and everyone else
With enough distance, even largest hypernovae are just tiny sparkles on the background of the sky.
We would be much worse off without it.
Distance squared law of gravity.
Hey, at least we can’t hear the screaming (/s).

Distance/dilution really is the solution eh? Besides, without all those fusion bombs going off our air would be liquid/solid, which is extremely inconvenient.