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Actually with a well placed nuclear warhead placed directly under the ship, it could be thrown out of the canal and into the nearby desert clearing the canal ro

Actually with a well placed nuclear warhead placed directly under the ship, it could be thrown out of the canal and into the nearby desert clearing the canal route /s

tomatotomato37 6y ago
Fun fact: the ship is larger than the fireball of a peacekeeper warhead would be (~320 meters)
- playerm1 6y ago
  May want to use two of those bad boys then
- lazide 6y ago
  Those were what, 300kiloton’s ish? So if we go to 1+ megaton we’d be good. Seems reasonable if we go up to 3-4 megatons, maybe we’d even end up with a big enough crater one of these ships could pull a three point turn next time?
  - aww_dang 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare >Proposed uses for nuclear explosives under Project Plowshare included widening the Panama Canal, constructing a new sea-level waterway through Nicaragua nicknamed the Pan-Atomic Canal, cutting paths through mountainous areas for highways, and connecting inland river systems.
  - arethuza 6y ago
    A better way would be to explode one medium sized nuke under the ship, wait a few seconds then explode another and then start exploding nukes behind it until it's going fast enough. Project Orion did contemplate a 400m diameter ship weighing 8 million tons.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
    - lazide 6y ago
      I like the way you think! Saving the global economy through nuclear propulsion of kiloton scale commercial shipping. It could finally get us to Mars?
- gpvos 6y ago
  Okay, something like the Tsar Bomba then? /s
concordDance 6y ago
I suspect any nuke smaller than the Tsar Bomb would leave top large pieces in the way.
Scarblac 6y ago
Think outside the box some more. With enough nuclear warheads, trade between Asia and Europe can be made completely irrelevant!

Actually with a well placed nuclear warhead placed directly under the ship, it could be thrown out of the canal and into the nearby desert clearing the canal route /s

tomatotomato37 6y ago

Fun fact: the ship is larger than the fireball of a peacekeeper warhead would be (~320 meters)

playerm1 6y ago
May want to use two of those bad boys then
lazide 6y ago
Those were what, 300kiloton’s ish? So if we go to 1+ megaton we’d be good. Seems reasonable if we go up to 3-4 megatons, maybe we’d even end up with a big enough crater one of these ships could pull a three point turn next time?
- aww_dang 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare >Proposed uses for nuclear explosives under Project Plowshare included widening the Panama Canal, constructing a new sea-level waterway through Nicaragua nicknamed the Pan-Atomic Canal, cutting paths through mountainous areas for highways, and connecting inland river systems.
- arethuza 6y ago
  A better way would be to explode one medium sized nuke under the ship, wait a few seconds then explode another and then start exploding nukes behind it until it's going fast enough. Project Orion did contemplate a 400m diameter ship weighing 8 million tons.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
  - lazide 6y ago
    I like the way you think! Saving the global economy through nuclear propulsion of kiloton scale commercial shipping. It could finally get us to Mars?
gpvos 6y ago
Okay, something like the Tsar Bomba then? /s

concordDance 6y ago

I suspect any nuke smaller than the Tsar Bomb would leave top large pieces in the way.

Scarblac 6y ago

Think outside the box some more. With enough nuclear warheads, trade between Asia and Europe can be made completely irrelevant!