I'm unsure the documentary is very good if your conclusion was that Apollo 13 was a 'debacle'. It wasn't. It was a failure in a massively high-risk endeavour that they managed to turn into just a los… (View Post)

Blessed are the piecemakers, for they shalt bomb you to pieces. (View Post)

When I lived on the Isle of Dogs over thirty years ago, there were few of what I would call 'genuine' pubs left. The Gun (though I'm unsure it was called that back then...) by the river on the easter… (View Post)

There's a whole area of research about the controlled transmutation of harmful nuclear waste into less harmful isotopes via neutron bombardment. It sounds great in theory - and I am a fan - but some … (View Post)

Not a bomb, but geologists think that there were natural nuclear reactors. One is known to have existed in Gabon a couple of billion years ago: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-eart… (View Post)