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you just have to blow it up REALLY HARD Like that old Mythbusters episode where they blow up a car twice I think the Earth could use just ONE MORE nuclear cra
by VRay 6y ago
you just have to blow it up REALLY HARD
Like that old Mythbusters episode where they blow up a car twice
I think the Earth could use just ONE MORE nuclear crater..
- nwallin 6y agoI think you've overestimating how much stuff an explosion removes, as opposed to breaks. Explosions are very good at making a functional thing not function anymore, but they're not as good as you think they are at evacuating an area. Look at the aftermath of the Beirut explosion. The metal frame of the building the explosion happened in is still lying there. The blast radius of an explosion scales with the cube root of the energy of the explosion. So if you want to make the hole twice as big, you need eight times as much explosives. To create a hole the size of a large container ship, you'll need a nuke. A pretty big one too. The Ever Given is 400m long, the crater left by the Trinity test (22kt) was 390m across.
- malwarebytess 6y agoWhy not use a nuke? Modern weapons can be very clean. :]
- fogihujy 6y agoBecause you still need to use the canal afterwards. And you need to convince the crews of the ships that the radiation won't be a problem. And the authorities of the ports they go to. And so on.
- rsj_hn 6y agoIf Elon Musk solves this with some combination of space gadgetry and boring machines, we're going to have to declare him Earth Emperor.