An explosive transition is possible, although it might play out differently from in the movie: as Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a "singularity" and Johnny Depp's movie character calls "transcendence".
The rest of my session was spent completing the Brooklyn-based tutorial, making the explosive transition to the streets of Manhattan, and unlocking more safe houses and side missions.
Our scenarios represent the dominant eruption sequence within the AVF, which begins with wet explosive behaviour that transitions into dry effusive activity (Kereszturi et al. 2014).
Similar to the previously studied case of an inert porous matrix filled with an explosive gas, the transition is triggered by a localized autoignition in the extended resistance-induced preheat zone gradually formed ahead of the advancing deflagration.
But what is the connection between them and other small-scale structures in the Sun's atmosphere, like for example transition region explosive events, is not known yet.
The transition from explosive to effusive eruption during the eruptive activity is observed elsewhere.
The high flux probably played a role in the transition from explosive to effusive eruptions.
First, we examine whether a reduction of the H2O content of the magma can explain the transition from explosive to effusive eruptions.
High SO2 flux observed immediately after the sub-Plinian eruptions and before rapid lava effusion is probably related to the extensive degassing of magma in the conduit, which probably played a role in the transition from explosive to effusive eruption.
The lack of positive correlation of gas emission and effusion rate, and the preceding high SO2 flux observed before the high effusion rate is apparently a result of the extensive degassing of magma in the conduit, which probably decreased the amount of gas in the magma and consequently played a role in the transition from explosive to effusive eruptions, as reported by Jaupart and Allègre (1991).
