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Very true. I think I'm hung up on the discrepancy with animations around this topic I eventually came to realize were extremely exaggerated. Like I think I saw

Very true. I think I'm hung up on the discrepancy with animations around this topic I eventually came to realize were extremely exaggerated. Like I think I saw a cartoon where like a chunk of the earth was removed like a lobotomy sort of thing, a huge sector of mass. I realized much later that these bombs simply do not have that kind of power as terrible as they are. I also later realized that asteroids can do some major serious damage on a whole other magnitude beyond nukes. The size of an asteroid crater is way beyond the crater size of nukes * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_craters_on_Eart... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_Crater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_Crater

jxramos 4y ago
Interestingly enough I can't make out the Tsar Bomba crater https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bomba+Zar/@73.5383394,54.7336004,1236m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x44f7639ffb29a117:0x688ce749fa62ac0b!8m2!3d73.5383394!4d54.7336004!16s%2Fg%2F11gnpvh2m1 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bomba+Zar/@73.5383394,54.7...
namaria 4y ago
The global effects of a nuclear war would be truly horrible. It's not just about the force of impact or blast radius or even how much land gets directly scorched. It's akin to a major chain volcanic eruption... A huge amount of particulate blocks the sun for decades and everything withers. There will be no post apocalyptic society. This is a major extinction event, an ecosystem wipe.