leemond2008 Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 I say **** up helicopters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2017 The "Tsar Bomba" is the most powerful bomb ever detonated. It was tested by the Soviets in 1961. it was over 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined, and 10 times more powerful than every explosive used in World War 2 combined. The mushroom cloud was so large that it reached into the Mesosphere, which means that if you wanted to fly over it you'd have to be in a spaceship. If you were standing 100km away, you would have received 3rd degree burns from the heat of the explosion, and the shockwave was so strong that it broke windows 900km away. It could have been twice as powerful as it was, but it would have been impossible for the plane carrying it to escape the blast radius without being destroyed. As it was, the crew were only given a 50% chance of surviving the test. They did, but the plane dropped 1km in the air as a result of the shockwave before recovering. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 5, 2017 Moderator Share Posted July 5, 2017 Very interesting ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 The fact that the biggest boom ever detonated by the USA is the pictured Castle Bravo, which by mistake had a 2.5 times bigger yield than predicted, makes the scale of the Tsar Bomba seam totally unreal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 4 minutes ago, Tegis said: The fact that the biggest boom ever detonated by the USA is the pictured Castle Bravo, which by mistake had a 2.5 times bigger yield than predicted, makes the scale of the Tsar Bomba seam totally unreal. Yep. it's staggering. Although the states did produce a 25MT device (so about half the tsar bomba) but it was never detonated. What's also staggering is that the Tsar Bomba was estimated to only be around a quarter as powerful as the Krakatoa Eruption in 1883, which gives you an idea of how catastrophic that must have been Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 5, 2017 Moderator Share Posted July 5, 2017 2 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Yep. it's staggering. Although the states did produce a 25MT device (so about half the tsar bomba) but it was never detonated. What's also staggering is that the Tsar Bomba was estimated to only be around a quarter as powerful as the Krakatoa Eruption in 1883, which gives you an idea of how catastrophic that must have been And then there was me and the aftermath of my Kismot Killer dinner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 7 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: What's also staggering is that the Tsar Bomba was estimated to only be around a quarter as powerful as the Krakatoa Eruption in 1883, which gives you an idea of how catastrophic that must have been That made me look at the yeld of the supervolcanos of the world. Krakatoa was as you said 200 MT. The caldera of Yellowstone will be approximately 875 000...... Lets just say that when that thing goes off again, we are well and truly **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 5, 2017 Moderator Share Posted July 5, 2017 1 minute ago, Tegis said: That made me look at the yeld of the supervolcanos of the world. Krakatoa was as you said 200 MT. The caldera of Yellowstone will be approximately 875 000...... Lets just say that when that thing goes off again, we are well and truly **** Wouldn't wanna be at Mile High stadium anyhoo ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 On the subject of nuclear power, if you want a sobering and NSFW read (if you Google it), look up Hisashi Ouchi (unfortunate name). Long story short Ouchi was involved in an accident in a nuclear fuel plant when he and a coworker accidentally caused a self sustaining nuclear reaction in a tank he happened to be spread eagle over. Both suffered immediate and intense exposure to radiation, and both died. Months later mind. In the case of Ouchi, they kept him alive for nearly 3 months, during which time, amongst other things, his skin fell off, his organs failed repeatedly, he was losing bodily fluids in astonishing amounts constantly, his white blood cells were completely destroyed, his chromosomes were destroyed... He 'died' numerous times in the 3 months, including having his heart stop 2 months in for over an hour, but doctors kept him alive. Why? Partly because that's their job, but partly because there is very little knowledge of how to treat exposure to high radiation levels so they effectively used his prolonged death to learn about it. If you do look up this, fair warning - the photos are horrific. Do not do this at work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Tegis said: That made me look at the yeld of the supervolcanos of the world. Krakatoa was as you said 200 MT. The caldera of Yellowstone will be approximately 875 000...... Lets just say that when that thing goes off again, we are well and truly **** Sorry, 875,000MT?!?! That's end of the world stuff considering the effects Krakatoa had Edited July 5, 2017 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 To maintain the theme, and also useless but horrific... A lot of what we know about hypothermia came from the Nazis. Their torture of captives in the concentration camps included a lot of exposing people to extreme temperatures and noting what happened, and those formed a lot of our knowledge of hypothermia to this day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 45 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Sorry, 875,000MT?!?! That's end of the world stuff considering the effects Krakatoa had Unless there's a misplaced comma somewhere, yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2017 48 minutes ago, Chindie said: To maintain the theme, and also useless but horrific... A lot of what we know about hypothermia came from the Nazis. Their torture of captives in the concentration camps included a lot of exposing people to extreme temperatures and noting what happened, and those formed a lot of our knowledge of hypothermia to this day. One of the experiments involved leaving a dude buried in ice for hours until he was virtually dead, and then putting him between two naked women, to see if he was capable of sexual arousal. He was. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 2 minutes ago, Tegis said: Unless there's a misplaced comma somewhere, yep Holy ****. Some similar stats on Krakatoa. The final explosive eruption measured at 310dB. It was so loud that it ruptured the eardrums of sailors on ships that were 40 miles away. The pressure wave circumnvented the planet 3 and a half times. 100 miles from the volcano, the sound has been calculated to have been 180dB. As a comparison, if you were stood 20 yards form a jet engine taking off it would be about 150dB. You could clearly hear the eruption in Perth, Australia. That's 1,900 miles from the eruption. it was heard in Mauritius which is 3,000 miles away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BOF Posted July 5, 2017 Moderator Share Posted July 5, 2017 8 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: 100 miles from the volcano, the sound has been calculated to have been 180dB. As a comparison, if you were stood 20 yards form a jet engine taking off it would be about 150dB. And as an FYI to anyone who doesn't already know (and as a timely addition to this thread...), decibel levels are logarithmic, meaning every 10db increment is 10 times as loud. So 180db is 1,000 times louder than 150db. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Makes me wonder what the point of going to work is tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 Biggest atomic strike, you say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troglodyte Posted July 5, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2017 7 hours ago, Stevo985 said: The "Tsar Bomba" is the most powerful bomb ever detonated. It was tested by the Soviets in 1961. it was over 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined, and 10 times more powerful than every explosive used in World War 2 combined. The mushroom cloud was so large that it reached into the Mesosphere, which means that if you wanted to fly over it you'd have to be in a spaceship. If you were standing 100km away, you would have received 3rd degree burns from the heat of the explosion, and the shockwave was so strong that it broke windows 900km away. It could have been twice as powerful as it was, but it would have been impossible for the plane carrying it to escape the blast radius without being destroyed. As it was, the crew were only given a 50% chance of surviving the test. They did, but the plane dropped 1km in the air as a result of the shockwave before recovering. Been listening to the Luke and Pete show? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 I think @Stevo985 has had a quiet day at work Fascinating stuff though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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