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xkcd presents "What If?" 2: Electric Boogaloo
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"It would probably qualify as the most Kerbal vehicle ever built."
--- The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself." >Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI 
"http://what-if.xkcd.com/140/]This is, by far, the most destructive What-If scenario to date."
What? You want a more descriptive quote? Fine, have some image text: "The core of a hydrogen atom is a single proton called 'Earth'. It consists of seven quarks, or 'continents'..." -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
"Nobody likes a naked singularity."
Edit, 'cause I just had to make this ghastly pun: There are 1052 electrons in the naked singularity. This has been one of them. ----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING. 
Pretty sure an electron is negatively charged. Someone should tell mister Munroe.
What if Randall Munroe talked to The Register again?
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"You wouldn't really die of anything, in the traditional sense. You would just stop being biology and start being physics."
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"It would be like a hydrogen bomb going off, only much more violent."
----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING. 
Isn't that ultimately the answer to most questions he gets?
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
True, but he doesn't usually start there.
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
That's kind of what you get when people ask questions about doing awesome stuff and you go and do the math.
Tennie Wrote:"So how did you end up here?" "Tesla software update. Elon Musk clicked on a SpaceX file by mistake."And the rollover text for that image. -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Whoa. An answer without relativistic parathermonuclear side effects? What is happening to the familiar world I know and love?
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Image mouseover text: "When it gets down to just rock and ice you should stop; the slurping is annoying."
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Rollover text: "A VACUUM IS FORMING KILL IT KILL IT" --Nature
----- Considering that one dictionary definition of "carry on" is to "behave or speak in a foolish, excited, or improper manner," the designers of that famous poster, "Keep Calm and Carry On," need to make up their flippin' minds! ----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING. 
And isn't that, deep down, all any of us really want?
This week we manage another answer with no parathermonuclear side effects. -- "Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together." -- BSD fortune file
I admit I would be seriously concerned if anything you could do with saliva had parathermonuclear side effects.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
"There doesn't seem to be anything in the rules about a maximum depth, so I suppose you can make a pool that continues through to the other side of the Earth, but then you run into trouble when you try to follow the instructions in section FR 2.14 about painting lane markings on the bottom."
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Oddly enough, he didn't factor in evaporation. Though, I suppose that the question is simply disgusting enough that one doesn't really think that far into it.
Ebony the Black Dragon http://ebony14.livejournal.com "Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
"You can't start a fire with moonlight [Pretty sure this is a Bon Jovi song.]"
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
No one specific quote, but his frequent use of "smoosh" in this answer is delightful (and I use that pun with malice aforethought).
----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
""Several dozen nanoseconds out of sync" isn't really satisfying, so we'll definitely need more than one flyby."
Also: "But it gets worse. [It always seems to, with plutonium.]" "stuff [This is the technical term.]" -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Image mouseover text: "Looks like our water is going back in time, I guess? Maybe we should call a plumber."
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
And we're back to insane levels of mass destruction. It's been a while.
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