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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: A Boojum Snark on January 18, 2006, 12:15:14 AM

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Post by: A Boojum Snark on January 18, 2006, 12:15:14 AM

Biggest bomb evar. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba)

Select notable points:

"The seismic shock of the test went around the Earth three times."

"...the average power produced during the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 3.9×10^-8 seconds or 39 nanoseconds, was about 5.3×10^24 watts or 5.3 yottawatts. This constitutes over 1% of the power output of the Sun (383 yottawatts) over the same time interval."


Sometimes I wonder why I've never heard about these things. O_o

(there be a link to a video of it at the bottom of the external links section, too, incase you may miss it)

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Post by: Tooky on January 18, 2006, 06:48:27 AM

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Biggest bomb evar. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba)

Select notable points:

"The seismic shock of the test went around the Earth three times."

"...the average power produced during the entire fission-fusion process, lasting around 3.9×10^-8 seconds or 39 nanoseconds, was about 5.3×10^24 watts or 5.3 yottawatts. This constitutes over 1% of the power output of the Sun (383 yottawatts) over the same time interval."


Sometimes I wonder why I've never heard about these things. o_O

(there be a link to a video of it at the bottom of the external links section, too, incase you may miss it)

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I've seen it numerous times on discovery, it's a jawsome sight but thank god they never dropped it on a country or whatnot.

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Post by: lolfighter on January 18, 2006, 07:42:13 AM

Why would they have dropped it on a country?

Anyway, just detonate about 72 of these at the same time and for 39 nanoseconds we have our very own sun! \^_^/

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Post by: Necrosis on January 18, 2006, 03:58:04 PM

383 yottawatts!!! GREAT SCOTT!

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Post by: Guspaz on January 23, 2006, 02:40:04 AM

Biggest bomb evar, and it was detonated in 1961, 45 years ago. I guess the large-scale nuclear testing hasn't been as big since then.

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Post by: 2_of_8 on January 23, 2006, 08:56:10 AM

No, thankfully, there hasn't.

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Post by: Reasa on January 23, 2006, 10:06:23 AM

So technically detonating 72 of these things at once even in the same area would be more then enough to destroy the world...

I can just see the Russians at the end of the Cold War piling these things up in Siberia and one guy leading a trail of gasoline away from it.

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Post by: Diablus on January 23, 2006, 10:31:19 AM

bewm shakalaka

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Post by: Anarki3x6 on January 23, 2006, 10:48:34 AM

eh, i dont think it'd destory the world completely... but theyred definetly be a damn big hole where russia used to be..

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Post by: 2_of_8 on January 23, 2006, 01:14:19 PM

It won't destroy Earth, but... the chance of life continuing after would be pretty remote. You know, dust clouds and all that. And um... radiation.