From: swilliams00023@yahoo.com (S Williams)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Feb 18, 2003
Since the blast wave from a nuclear explosion is created
when air @ ground zero is superheated millions of degrees,
what would the result of an exoatmospheric explosion
be?
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
If you blow a nuke in space, and there's nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?
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From: "Artemia Salina" <y2k@sheayright.com>
No. Regardless if there is anyone there or not.
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From: "Blackout" <blackout@404subgenius.com>
"S Williams" wrote
>... what would the result of an exoatmospheric explosion be?
it would spoil a perfect afternoon
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From: "nu-monet v5.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>
The first effect would be a radiation wave, think of the flash of a lightbulb in a dark room. But there would only be the remaining unconverted mass of the device housing creating a relatively small, superheated particulate wave which would dissipate quickly.
The explosion would also seem much smaller than a ground explosion because the cube root effect would effectively slash in half the part of the boom that in a ground burst goes down and is then reflected back up.
It would be rather disappointing, I imagine, if what you wanted was a big firecracker.
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From: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
But if it was set off behind a carefully-etched lead shield of sufficient size, presuming it was a modest fission device rather than a major fusion one, half the planet would have a really ginchy afterimage of the Pepsi logo in their eyes for a while.
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From: William Barwell <wbarwell@mungedd.mylinuxisp.com>
S Williams wrote:
> ... what would the result of an exoatmospheric explosion be?
Depends. a nuke has several parts to its effects. Thermal shock, over pressure, and elecro-magnetic pulse. You get a really nasty EMP effect with a nuke outside the atmosphere, but much less over-pressure since you'd be far away if it was truely outside the atmosphere, which is about 60 miles. Thermal would drop off as a square of the distance, ie, twice as far away has 1/4 the thermal effects, so the whole calculation would depend on size of the nuke and actual distance. Actually, over pressure similarly drops off. You'd probably feel it and a heat wave, and you'd see a very bright flash that might even be able to blind you if the nuke was big enough. outside the 60 mile figue, you might survive, mebbe not, also depending on atmospheric conditions. Fall out would depend on wind direction and other factors.
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
William Barwell <wbarwell@mungedd.mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
>Thermal would drop off as a square of the distance,
ie, twice as
>far away has 1/4 the thermal effects, so the whole
calculation
>would depend on size of the nuke and actual distance.
Well remember what heat actually is
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From: glassgnost <dlindner@nospam.dslextreme.com>
S Williams wrote:
> ... what would the result of an exoatmospheric explosion be?
It would release the Evil Kryptonians upon the earth.
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From: prostata@bronze.coil.com (The Stinking Bishop Prostata Cantata MP)
S Williams <swilliams00023@yahoo.com> wrote:
>... what would the result of an exoatmospheric explosion be?
Beyond the radiation release and the EMP, neither of which would have much effect on earth depending on how far out of the atmosphere you detonate, not much really. Radiation would be similar to the sun, but much less and would have a different spectrum depending on what kind of bomb is used. Wouldn't take too much distance before the blast was lost in the background and space is *big*. Heating air on a planet is very destructive and it really does take a nice thick atmosphere to propigate shock waves. Could use it to vaporize the suface of a comet on one side to steer it a bit, but you'de have to be pretty close for that. Now *that* would be the best way to use a nuke in space. Forget nuking them. Drop a comet on 'em if you *really* want to ruin someone's day. Be nice to use a few nukes to get a good chunk of ice into low orbit so we can stop shipping water uphill to space stations, but I digress.
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
S Williams <swilliams00023@yahoo.com> wrote:
> .. what would the result of an exoatmospheric explosion
be?
At first, only a few crazy old Japanese fishermen pulled from the sea in a typhoon, babbling superstitious nonsense about some "sea monster" destroying their fishing boat. A little girl wandering alone in the desert, screaming only the word, "THEM!"
A few weeks later, a living Rhedosaurus from 20,000 fathoms, charging down Park Avenue, gobbling down brave cops who approach it firing their handguns. Ants the size of army tanks nesting in the sewers of Los Angeles and eating bums.
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The Japanese coast guard authorities were puzzled, for they had found the abandoned cargo vessel in the sea of Japan to be covered with what appeared to be enormous tooth and claw marks, while the sole remaining crewman could only babble, "Terribre Rizard!, Terribre Rizard!"(unusual in that both the ship and crew were Liberian); so, needless to say, they suspected illegal narcotics.
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From: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote...
> A few weeks later, a living Rhedosaurus from 20,000
fathoms, charging
> down Park Avenue, gobbling down brave cops who
approach it firing their
> handguns. Ants the size of army tanks nesting in
the sewers of Los
> Angeles and eating bums.
And NENSLOS the size of GREYHOUND BUSES! HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE! And giant roving BREASTS, drowning people in their CAUSTIC MILK! Mmm, milk... Make me a sergeant, charge the booze!
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From: michael_amberwind@yahoo.com (Rajah of the Orange Groves)
swilliams00023@yahoo.com (S Williams) wrote...
>... what would the result of an exoatmospheric explosion
be?
I'd finally get to put my hair in a mohawk, wear a costume made of leather, car seat vinyl and racoons, and drive around a post-apoopalicious wasteland killing muties for "BoB" with a chainsaw in place of a peg-leg
Yeee haaaaw!
On second thought, forget about the mohawk.
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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>
yeah that would be weird.
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