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Originally posted by GeneralMishka
C'mon, its 2012 and Iran still cant build a nuke? Without computers, without 60 years of data, without bribing 2 generations of Nuclear Scientists & while fighting a war to the death with Germany/Italy and Japan the Americans could do it?
The attacks, which have killed five Iranian nuclear scientists since 2007 and may have destroyed a missile research and development site, have been carried out in dramatic fashion, with motorcycle-borne assailants often attaching small magnetic bombs to the exterior of the victims’ cars. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Obama administration is aware of the assassination campaign but has no direct involvement.
Originally posted by GeneralMishka
What if nuclear energy isnt converting mass to energy, rather harnessing some atomic instability?
Originally posted by CLPrime
Originally posted by GeneralMishka
What if nuclear energy isnt converting mass to energy, rather harnessing some atomic instability?
Historical issues aside, nuclear energy isn't converting mass to energy. It is harnessing an atomic instability... the chain-reaction decay of unstable heavy isotopes.
Mass-energy conversion would be a matter-antimatter bomb. Significantly more powerful than a nuclear bomb.
Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by GeneralMishka
Not exactly...the energy of nuclear fission comes from the binding energy that hold those heavy isotopes together, which gets released when the atom decays. This translates into an apparent loss of mass due to E = mc², but the energy itself is not from any sort of mass-energy conversion.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
Germany was on the cusp of creating Nuclear weapons. The Atomic bomb was a monstrous creation from the mind of the Nazis. They had a whole host of incredible technological advances their scientists were working on, and the Nuclear weapon was just one of them.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
Originally posted by GeneralMishka
C'mon, its 2012 and Iran still cant build a nuke? Without computers, without 60 years of data, without bribing 2 generations of Nuclear Scientists & while fighting a war to the death with Germany/Italy and Japan the Americans could do it?
Germany was on the cusp of creating Nuclear weapons. The Atomic bomb was a monstrous creation from the mind of the Nazis. They had a whole host of incredible technological advances their scientists were working on, and the Nuclear weapon was just one of them.
After WW2 many of those scientists moved to the USA and began working for the government, helping them to develop the nuclear weapons we have today.
America did not make this scientific breakthrough when it comes to weaponry and mass destruction. The Nazis did, and America simply stole through espionage and spying, then paid them to switch sides and be spared after the war.
The Nazis also had plans for orbiting weapons, harnessing the power of the sun, long before NASA left the ground, long before the moon landing, long before the international space station and long before satellites.
People continuously underestimate what the Nazis were capable of behind the scenes, and much of that (I believe) has been witnessed since in UFO reports (something else the Nazis were working on) and many of the disgusting weapons we see today.
The Nazis had, without a doubt, some of the most disgusting scientific minds ever gathered together, and their imagination knew no bounds. They were not constricted by the idea of "impossible" and believed in everything. This unbridled insanity and unlimited belief in anything being possible resulted in Nuclear weapons, possibly "Foo Fighters", potential high speed craft we see today and can't explain, and plenty more that we have absolutely no idea about.edit on 29-9-2012 by detachedindividual because: (no reason given)
After seeing the German project at Haigerloch, Goudsmit wrote that:
It was so obvious the whole German uranium set up was on a ludicrously small scale. Here was the central group of laboratories, and all it amounted to was a little underground cave, a wing of a small textile factory, a few rooms in an old brewery. To be sure, the laboratories were well-equipped, but compared to what we were doing in the United States it was still small-time stuff. Sometimes we wondered if our government had not spent more money on our intelligence mission than the Germans had spent on their whole project.[95]
Originally posted by felixjames20
The way i have always remembered how E=MC2 is the amount of energy which a given mass is equivalent to because matter and energy are the same thing just in different forms.
Example would be if you had 1kg of anything, lets say a 1kg bag of sugar then the Energy equivalent would be:
1 (mass) x 300,000,000 x 300,000,000 (speed of light squared) = 10,000,000,000,000,000 Joules
Originally posted by TheComte
reply to post by detachedindividual
This is incorrect. The Nazis and the Allies were developing the atomic bomb simultaneously, yet independently. There was concern among the Allies that Germany would achieve it first. But it was later proven that the Germans were on the wrong track, and would not have achieved "the Bomb.". No Nazi German scientists assisted the US in the Manhattan Project.