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Its an interesting scenario. because if the ship suddenly decided to turn around and head for the closest, most densely populated costal city... what can they d
by senectus1 2y ago
Its an interesting scenario.
because if the ship suddenly decided to turn around and head for the closest, most densely populated costal city... what can they do about it?
Blow it up? its ALREADY close enough to cause significant damage.
Somehow sink it without detonating it? The environmental damage alone would be devistating to the econcomy...
if this is a russian plot, it's already increadibly successfull.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 2y agoNukes aren't a perfect model for a ship full of explosive fertilizer, but a reasonable enough approximation/upper bound for which we can easily find formulas/calculators online. A 15 kiloton nuke has a 1 psi radius of about 3 km according to https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/# https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/# So a possible solution would indeed be stopping it by any means necessary somewhere between the 22 km mark (where it enters territorial waters) and the 3 km mark where it becomes a serious hazard.
- dist-epoch 2y agoYou just use tugboats to push it away, and protect the tugboats with coast guard vessels. The only environmental damage would be from the ship fuel. The fertilizer is not a problem, maybe it would cause a short term algae boom.
- pvaldes 2y ago> head for the closest, most densely populated costal city. London actually.