In addition to the other comments about the impracticality of this, you have absolutely no assurance that whatever landed you in the situation requiring the gas didn’t cause the reactor to scram (automatic emergency shutdown)
Darn. He implied there was a better-than-even chance of it breaking the boat in half, but apparently he was just trying to impress us. Now I’m starting to worry about the quality of my physics education. :eek:
[sub]Oh, wait, it was the basic class for non-math majors, so all the dim bulbs and troublemakers were in it (I was smart but lazy). I didn’t learn anything anyway.[/sub]