That's a big bomb

scaeagles · 03-30-2006, 10:13 AM

A freakin' 700 ton bomb? Yikes!

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/0....wxde5ocl.html

Gemini Cricket · 03-30-2006, 10:17 AM

I hope this will be covered well by the media in the area before it happens. It could freak people out. (Not that you can see out from a casino.) Ha ha.

BarTopDancer · 03-30-2006, 10:31 AM

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He said the Russians have been notified of the test, which is scheduled for the first week of June at the Nevada test range.

"We're also making sure that Las Vegas understands," Tegnelia said.

Why do I have the video of 99 luftballoons in my head?

And this

Ghoulish Delight · 03-30-2006, 10:52 AM

A conservative 1985 estimate of the total world aresenal (don't know if it was nuclear or nuclear + conventional) put the number at around the equivalent of 10 tons of dynamite per human being.

Gemini Cricket · 03-30-2006, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

10 tons of dynamite per human being.

Holy cow!

Anyone remember the movie 'The Day After'? Scared the poop outta me as a kid.

Moonliner · 03-30-2006, 11:01 AM

Wow!

That could just possibly be the biggest bomb since Chicken Little.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-30-2006, 03:18 PM

Sorry, the number was more like 4.5 tons of TNT-equivalence per capita. That's only including nuclear arms, and it was 1982, not 1985. Whether there might be more or less nuclear firewpower now...who knows. Disaramament treaties surely have reduced the number of warheads lying around, but advances in technology surely have made those the do exist more powerful. And even a small fraction of that is still a staggering number.

A little bit of perspective on what a 700 ton bomb means:

1 pound of TNT in a car kills everybody within and leaves a fiery wreck.
10 pounds totally demolishes the average suburban home.
1000 pounds [that's one half of one ton] packed inside an old German tank sent the turret to disappear in low overhead clouds.*

So, imagine 1400 German tanks lined up in the Nevada desert...

*Quoted from the book Metamagical Themas, by Douglas Hofstadter, attributed therein to one Wolf H. Fahrenbach

scaeagles · 03-30-2006, 03:36 PM

And I would figure the explosives being used in the bomb are more powerful than TNT. not that I am any sort of demolition expert.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-30-2006, 03:40 PM

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And I would figure the explosives being used in the bomb are more powerful than TNT. not that I am any sort of demolition expert.

700 tons is not the literal weight of the bomb. When talking about the "tonage" of a bomb, it refers to the explosive force and means that "X number of tons of TNT would produce the same force explosion."

scaeagles · 03-30-2006, 03:44 PM

Ahhh...here I was figuring how they were ever gonna drop something that big anywhere. Don't I feel a bit stupid....

I did, of course, realize that was how nuclear weapons were rated....I did not think that 20 kiloton nukes required thrust to launch an actual 20 kiloton (in weight) bomb. I did not realize all other explosives were done in the same way.

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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Sorry, the number was more like 4.5 tons of TNT-equivalence per capita. That's only including nuclear arms, and it was 1982, not 1985. Whether there might be more or less nuclear firewpower now...who knows. Disaramament treaties surely have reduced the number of warheads lying around, but advances in technology surely have made those the do exist more powerful. And even a small fraction of that is still a staggering number. A little bit of perspective on what a 700 ton bomb means: 1 pound of TNT in a car kills everybody within and leaves a fiery wreck. 10 pounds totally demolishes the average suburban home. 1000 pounds [that's one half of one ton] packed inside an old German tank sent the turret to disappear in low overhead clouds.* So, imagine 1400 German tanks lined up in the Nevada desert... Quoted from the book Metamagical Themas*, by Douglas Hofstadter, attributed therein to one Wolf H. Fahrenbach __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Ahhh...here I was figuring how they were ever gonna drop something that big anywhere. Don't I feel a bit stupid.... I did, of course, realize that was how nuclear weapons were rated....I did not think that 20 kiloton nukes required thrust to launch an actual 20 kiloton (in weight) bomb. I did not realize all other explosives were done in the same way. Last edited by scaeagles : 03-30-2006 at 03:51 PM.
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