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Underground nuclear tests don’t make huge holes in the surface. That’s the whole point. Here’s what they look like at ground level: https://www.atlasobscura.c
by raldi 6y ago
Underground nuclear tests don’t make huge holes in the surface. That’s the whole point.
Here’s what they look like at ground level:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heres-what-an-underground-nuclear-test-actually-looks-like https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heres-what-an-undergro...
Plenty of room for the computer to survive.
- danbruc 6y ago...if the test happens deep enough to contain the explosion. But even an initially contained explosion may produce a crater later when the pressure in the created cavity drops and the cavity collapses.
- qubex 6y agoEnormous subsistance craters are what I had in mind when I wrote “enormous crater”.
- raldi 6y agoThey’re not enormous relative to the length of LAN cables.
- chrisseaton 6y agoI don't know how you'd describe the image you linked to except a 'huge hole in the surface.'
- raldi 6y agoTo me, it’s just a depression (something shallow a computer cannot fall into), whereas the comment above made it sound like a pit (something deep it can fall into).