Sentences with phrase «sized hydrogen bomb»

If enough material, mostly in the form of hydrogen gas, accumulates on the surface of the white dwarf, nuclear fusion reactions can occur and intensify, culminating into a cosmic - sized hydrogen bomb blast.

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The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.
If there is a screen - size arms race going on, then Samsung dropped the equivalent of a hydrogen bomb at CES when it announced a 12 - inch tablet.
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