Without looking at the video: Earth would be no more, and the Moon will fuck off into space, 'cause guess what: nuclear weaponry is hardcore. How close am I?
Without looking at the video:
Earth would be no more, and the Moon will fuck off into space, 'cause guess what: nuclear weaponry is hardcore.
Not even remotely close. I was actually surprised by how little damage, relatively speaking, all the nukes in the world going off on one spot would do. The second part of the video however......
Not even remotely close. I was actually surprised by how little damage, relatively speaking, all the nukes in the world going off on one spot would do. The second part of the video however... you're closer but still overestimating. And you will just have to watch it to find out what I'm talking about. ;)
I wouldn't exactly call a 3,000 megaton explosion, "no kaboomie"... but it's apparently not even close to planet cracking potential. And according to the theoretical scenario in the second half of...
I wouldn't exactly call a 3,000 megaton explosion, "no kaboomie"... but it's apparently not even close to planet cracking potential. And according to the theoretical scenario in the second half of the video, even 1.5 billion megatons apparently isn't either.
The most amazing part to me is that all the nukes in the world detonated at the same time in the same spot is still not even remotely close to the amount of energy of the impact that killed the...
The most amazing part to me is that all the nukes in the world detonated at the same time in the same spot is still not even remotely close to the amount of energy of the impact that killed the dinosaurs.
A very big rock moving very quickly is pretty damn powerful I guess.
Since we are doing guesses, my guess is that it won't destroy the earth, but just fuck over everything on it, leaving it as just a rock in space. (I haven't read the rest of this thread yet)
Since we are doing guesses, my guess is that it won't destroy the earth, but just fuck over everything on it, leaving it as just a rock in space.
(I haven't read the rest of this thread yet)
You are very, very, very, very far from it. Geocide is pretty hard - It wouldn't even slag the crust, let alone actually shatter the planet - and give the pieces enough energy to keep on being...
Earth would be no more, and the Moon will fuck off into space, 'cause guess what: nuclear weaponry is hardcore.
Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.
You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.
Fools.
The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.
It wouldn't even slag the crust, let alone actually shatter the planet - and give the pieces enough energy to keep on being shattered. We might go the way of the dinosaurs (likely not), but it wouldn't even kill off all life - large asteroids carry with them much more energy than any piddly nuclear firecracker (if producing less fallout).
Kinetic bombardment is a weapon of mass destruction - you might have heard of the "rods from god", or Project Thor, and even if carrying "only" the equivalent energy of 11.5 tons of TNT the rods would be just 9 tons of tungsten moving at ~4 km/s. An asteroid not only would be faster, but orders of magnitude more massive: the Chicxulub impactor, also known as "the big ass rock that killed the dinosaurs", left behind a 150-km wide crater, its mass being estimated between the one thousand and 460 thousands billions of tons, and that? That was not the biggest impact that our planet survived.
Without looking at the video:
Earth would be no more, and the Moon will fuck off into space, 'cause guess what: nuclear weaponry is hardcore.
How close am I?
Not even remotely close. I was actually surprised by how little damage, relatively speaking, all the nukes in the world going off on one spot would do. The second part of the video however... you're closer but still overestimating. And you will just have to watch it to find out what I'm talking about. ;)
No kaboomie? Bummer. I had plans.
I wouldn't exactly call a 3,000 megaton explosion, "no kaboomie"... but it's apparently not even close to planet cracking potential. And according to the theoretical scenario in the second half of the video, even 1.5 billion megatons apparently isn't either.
The most amazing part to me is that all the nukes in the world detonated at the same time in the same spot is still not even remotely close to the amount of energy of the impact that killed the dinosaurs.
A very big rock moving very quickly is pretty damn powerful I guess.
Since we are doing guesses, my guess is that it won't destroy the earth, but just fuck over everything on it, leaving it as just a rock in space.
(I haven't read the rest of this thread yet)
I didn't realize starting trends is that easy!
Hang on, let me try...
Oh boy! Visiting doctors for a regular check-up sure is good for me!
You are very, very, very, very far from it. Geocide is pretty hard -
It wouldn't even slag the crust, let alone actually shatter the planet - and give the pieces enough energy to keep on being shattered. We might go the way of the dinosaurs (likely not), but it wouldn't even kill off all life - large asteroids carry with them much more energy than any piddly nuclear firecracker (if producing less fallout).
Kinetic bombardment is a weapon of mass destruction - you might have heard of the "rods from god", or Project Thor, and even if carrying "only" the equivalent energy of 11.5 tons of TNT the rods would be just 9 tons of tungsten moving at ~4 km/s. An asteroid not only would be faster, but orders of magnitude more massive: the Chicxulub impactor, also known as "the big ass rock that killed the dinosaurs", left behind a 150-km wide crater, its mass being estimated between the one thousand and 460 thousands billions of tons, and that? That was not the biggest impact that our planet survived.
It would be very loud, though.