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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