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We have drilled many oil wells deeper than 7km. We will just need a wider bore to fit that chubby nuke down the hole.
by tatersolid 1y ago
We have drilled many oil wells deeper than 7km. We will just need a wider bore to fit that chubby nuke down the hole.
- pfdietz 1y agoThis borehole would effectively be a mineshaft. High yield nuclear weapons achieve around 5 Mt/ton, so a 81 Gt device would have a mass of 16,200 tons, about 1/3rd the displacement of a WW2 Iowa class battleship. The deepest mine (a gold mine in South Africa) reaches a depth of 4 kilometers.