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> The US nuclear test done in Mississippi resulted in vaporizing the rock and soil and creating a large underground void, for whatever that's worth as a sort of
by MisterTea 5y ago
> The US nuclear test done in Mississippi resulted in vaporizing the rock and soil and creating a large underground void, for whatever that's worth as a sort of proof of concept.
Where did the vaporized rock and soil go?
- beerandt 5y ago>Where did the vaporized rock and soil go? "What are you, the rock police? I put'em up on my a**. How's that?"
- jdsully 5y agoI imagine it escaped as a gas.
- caeril 5y agoIt escapes . . . as a gas . . . in an already highly pressurized environment . . . that is already containing a large amount of high-pressure hydrogen sulfide that cannot escape as it is? I'm pressing X to doubt.
- ineedasername 5y agoThat just means you need a second nuke to blow a hole that allows the gas to escape & lave to flow in, and a 3rd nuke to collapse the hole before the lava gets too far. It's all there in my book, "How to nuke your way out of any problem"
- daveac 5y agoYou could just create another bigger void and let the stuff vent into that
- beerandt 5y agoBig "if", but hypothetically, at least gas flows in a way that the pressure could be relieved. The whole reason supervolcanoes are what they are is that the material can't sufficiently flow faster than pressure builds. Converting that material to an escaping gas at scale would be an unbelievably successful technological achievement.
- echelon 5y agoDo rocks and minerals even have a boiling point, or do they thermally decompose?
- iSnow 5y agoConsidering they are mostly anorganic substance, I'd guess you can make them boil - you'd get lava.
- syngrog66 5y agoAlabama
- techdragon 5y agoForced into the surroundings making them more dense than the surrounding rock and soil.