Category: Nerd Alert

Wonder how good it would be as radiation shielding…. particularly neutrino shielding. Alpha and beta radiation are pretty easy to stop with any kind of solid/dense material, and really not worth pulling out the exotic stuff for. Gamma rays are just photons, and Vibranium seems to reflect visible light and various beam weapons and such,… Read More

Assuming destruction absolute enough that no two molecules will gravitationally recombine ever seems like an extreme upper bound on the problem. The biggest thing immediately evident in Alderaan’s debris field was the death star itself when the Milenium Falcon showed up, but it looked to me more like the majority of the planet’s mass formed a pulverized debris cloud only a few planet-diameters across when we did witness one of these explosions.