>>>I have a lot of trouble believing that, and I find myself desperately
>>>wanting to be proven wrong.
>>
>>E.E. Smith, Ph.D., would have considered the ending of
>>Gunbuster (where they use Jupiter as the hydrogen core of a
>>thermonuclear weapon—spoilers!) pretty unambitious, scale-wise.
>>
>Have we seen same Gunbuster?
>It was a Black Hole Bomb.Oh. OK, right. What was I thinking? Clearly a thermonuclear weapon based on fusing 1.9*1029 kilograms of hydrogen would be ENTIRELY inadequate. :)
In my defense, it has been a really long time since I saw Gunbuster. I do, however, still remember Jer "The Barbarian" Johnson turning to me and remarking in awe, "They've got Jupiter in there."
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