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Well it sounds like the the only reasonable, responsible course of action is to replicate the original test but use modern high speed recording equipment to det
by lotu 9y ago
Well it sounds like the the only reasonable, responsible course of action is to replicate the original test but use modern high speed recording equipment to determine what would happen to that steel plate.
- gambiting 9y agoHow critical is the nuclear explosion in this experiment? Could you use an equivalent traditional explosive? 1KT explosion can be achieved without going nuclear.
- flashdance 9y agoAccording to the wiki page the Pascal-B test was the equivalent of 300 tons of TNT.
- solotronics 9y agohold my beer
- evan_ 9y agoI'm not a physicist but as far as I know a nuclear explosion releases its energy much more quickly than e.g. TNT, so just releasing the same number of joules wouldn't exactly duplicate the test unless you were able to release them in the same number of nanoseconds.
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- careersuicide 9y agoThis video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2orn6T2QFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2orn6T2QFM is a good DIY experiment along those lines and is interesting if not necessarily correct at the nuclear scale.