How does something implode rather than EXPLODE? And can you think of particular well known and recognized examples of an "implosion" rather than explosion, thanks. :)
sharewhen something under extreme external pressure loses its structural integrity and is crushed as a result.
Like that submersible in "The Abyss" that the bad guy was in.
Hillary Clinton’s loss to DT.
She imploded.
A buddy of mine asked me, “If you were a Superhero, what super power would you have?”
I said without hesitation, “ I would make people’s heads explode by just looking at them whispering, BOOM!”
Now, taking into consideration the splatter of it all, it would be an ‘implosion’, why mess up his wife’s house or belongings, she didn’t say something stupid. If anything, I am considerate.
An implosion fission weapon with an explosive yield of one kiloton can be constructed with as little as 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 pounds) of plutonium or with about 5 to 10 kg (11 to 22 pounds) of highly enriched uranium.
shareBuildings are imploded all of the time. They just fall down and don't send material flying out in all directions.
shareVacuum sealed things like old TV screens implode. I can understand some of the confusion since most implosions are followed by some outward effect that has the earmarks of an explosion.
If you landed on an extreme gravity planet with a dense atmosphere instead of this one, you would have imploded.
In Cosmos Carl Sagan had an illustration about how gravity effects normal objects and also light. So the illustration was of the characters from Alice in Wonderland and a lantern on the ground with the light shooting upward from the ground. So he had pictures of normal gravity g=1 where everyone is having their tea party as normal, g=0 when they are floating, g=2 where they all feel heavy and g=some high number where they are all crushed to the ground. All the time the direction of light is unaffected still point straight up in the air. Then he sets g to the value of what it is in a black hole where now the light can’t escape and bends to the ground. But the one thing unaffected even to the black hole is the Cheshire Cat floating in the air and smiling immune to the laws of physics.
shareI loved the original Cosmos! I was just a kid and our family was letting a friend recover from back surgery at our house. Watched a lot of TV with him that I might not have chosen at that age. Cosmos was pure gold to me. I was already a space fanatic (with bookmarks throughout our encyclopedias at every planet and mention of the space program) so I was transfixed. I remember that illustration you mentioned. Brings back memories. Thanks.
shareMaybe when a star is dying before it goes supernova and explodes, I think it gets crushed by its own mass and implodes.
shareIt either means to explode inwardly or collapse/cease to exist
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