Explosives (Hear Me Out)

[JakeGrey]

You're talking about something called a range safety device, and there's a couple of mods providing one.

[meve12]

this thread has got me thinking, if we set off a big enough fusion bomb deep enough into jupiter, would that create a chain reaction that blows the entire atmosphere up into one huge fusion explosion?

Probably not. Stars work by having enough mass to crush the hydrogen until it starts fusing. You might make some hydrogen fuse if you dropped a bomb in deep enough(There's metallic hydrogen down there, which is under a butt-load of pressure), but you won't be making Jupiter supernova.

That being said, you might be able to make a big enough bang to blast Jupiter's outlying layer of atmosphere right off. Which would be pretty cool to watch from a safe distance.(I.E outside it's moon system. It's gonna give "breaking wind" a whole new meaning.)

Ontopic: Would fuel tanks get proper explosions too instead of just disappearing with a pop?

And how the heck do you use the roll-eyes smiley face?

Edited September 1, 2013 by meve12

[Harguinxx]

what about the creativity??? loom at minecraft and see how many bored people do awesome things with TNT blocks... I love this idea because it's justified in the real world, is usefull and allow people to do a lot of creative thongs with that feature.

[Requiem762]

I really like this idea and I believe there is actually a mod for it already somewhere on spaceport

[Rage097]

Since jupiter atmosphere are gasses. [bold]Does that mean we can put a antimatter bomb and make a hole?[/bold] Since gasses can be moved and expanded.[bold] And you could easily get radioactive material from smoke detectors[/bold] and have thermocoupler and just wait for it to generate power.

...1. We lack the time and money to create enough anti-matter for a reasonable bomb. We've made AT MOST only several miligrams of Anti-hydrogen.

2. wat.

Also

creative thongs with that feature.

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[Vallius]

Now that we have destructible buildings, wouldn't it make sense to have the option to self-destruct wayward vehicles before they blow up KSC?