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Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs
- 10ren 18y agoAustralia is a huge continent, but only a small proportion is arable: most is desert. Creating mountains in just the right places could increase rainfall. But I don't think even the most powerful atomic bombs built so far are sufficient for this modest engineering proposal. EDIT and why would a hack like this get downvoted?
- anamax 18y agoCreating a fairly-wide sea-passage through the continent (splitting it in two) would probably be easier. Plus it would generate a lot of new beaches and dive sites.
- DarkShikari 18y agoThis is hardly a new idea; the Soviet Union did this for real many times: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_National_Economy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_Nati...
- rms 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion This is the only way we have right now of traveling at speeds anywhere close to c.
- DarkShikari 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoplasmadynamic_thruster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoplasmadynamic_thruster We also have these; it's probably more practical, but it still requires a powerful onboard reactor (in practice, probably fission or fusion).
- krschultz 18y agoMount Snow in Vermont wanted to use a bomb to create a back bowl for skiing in the 60s. http://books.google.com/books?id=FOhrjSuy6rsC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=mount+snow+atomic+bomb&source=bl&ots=tEdg01cKDs&sig=lp5SBYbSBQyFNchJm0UjJXKKWzU&hl=en&ei=QDfhScqoM47glQfMueHgDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4 http://books.google.com/books?id=FOhrjSuy6rsC&pg=PA49...