Can a nuke even blow up in space?

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Would it ever stop exploding in space

There are still particles from the Big Bang, 14 BILLION years ago, accelerating away from the initial explosion. If they don't encounter any other particles/masses, they'll be going after our Sun goes nova.​

 

[Strapped]

no, I’ve tried.

Elaborate?

 

[old pig]

Elaborate?

I don’t think you really wanna question a nikka who has the resources to play with nukes in space

 

[Dorian Breh]

I don’t think you really want to question a nikka who has the resources to play with nukes in space

This nikka talmbot Mass Effect Legendary Edition or something

 

[Mastamimd]

Need more threads like this

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Starfish Prime, one of the US projects to study the effects of a nuclear explosion in outer space, was part of a large series of 36 nuclear tests carried out as part of the Dominic Project from April 25 to November 4, 1962.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

I get what you're saying, but earthly "fire" as we know it, is different than what's happening on the surface of the sun. I guess they both involve heat and light, but it's probably an entirely different phenomenon

they are literally the exact same phenomenon just on different scales.

 

[Dorian Breh]

they are literally the exact same phenomenon just on different scales.

As @Darth Nubian explained, there's no oxidation happening on the sun, it's two hydrogens combining to form one helium atom, it probably looks nothing like an earthly flame

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

I wonder if a dead human or an animal can decay in outter space.

 

[Dorian Breh]

I wonder if a dead human or an animal can decay in outter space.

Nope! It's cold as fukk, and no microorganisms exist

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

Nope! It's cold as fukk, and no microorganisms exist

Good then I want my dead body to up their with the moon and the stars.

 

[Dorian Breh]

Good then I want my dead body to up their with the moon and the stars.

Like James Franco in Alien: Covenant

 

[Serious]

@Hawaiian Punch

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

I meant to ask, what is the "residue" that remains in the area where a nuke goes off that makes it uninhabitable?

when the nuke goes of, the force of the blast is only one part of it.
the radiation is the other part.

imagine a dust storm comes through your city but it's radioactive.
that's the fallout that settles in the blast area or gets taken away in the wind.
i think scientist in France were the first to detect fallout from Chernobyl.