call of duty modern warfare2 ISS space station destroyed.

[Bloodgod40]

Not only is it impossible for this to happen, but the ISS displayed here is an earlier configuration, by the time MW2 came out the ISS hadn't looked like this for a couple of years.

[chicagovigilante]

The most likely way in which a satellite or spacecraft would be destroyed by such a nuclear device would be through the EMP. This electromagnetic pulse could short out the satellite navigational computer, causing it to lose orbit and burn up upon entering the atmosphere.

[chicagovigilante]

I love the game, but this sequence is physically inaccurate. It is true, as confirmed through testing by the US and the USSR, that a nuclear device detonated in outer space could destroy a nearby satellite. However, the damage would be done through radiation of various frequencies (gamma, EMP, etc).

A pressure shockwave cannot occur without a physical medium. A vacuum is not a physical medium. Therefore, it is inaccurate for the ISS to rip apart as if it was hit by a shockwave.

[DM4717]

it isn't a shockwave... it's a heat wave... heat can travel through a vacuum, and the heat caused by the ICBM would definitely be enough to weaken the support structures of the ISS and destroy it

[Spaceguy5]

The EMP effect of a nuke might knock out the electronics on the ISS (Which could probably kill the crew slowly...) But there wouldn't be a destructive shockwave o.o... Also I doubt a nuke launch would even be visible from the space station when it's that far away. Plus a nuke explosion in space wouldn't make a fireball. I liked the older, more factual CoD games. The writers of MW2 shouldn't have stepped into a territory they knew nothing about <_<

[PivotSeargentFS]

@Spaceguy5 your just so conveniently named Spaceguy.. Troll

[halohadel]

that is soooo fake

[acraze21]

@halohandel....."this is a really cool scene from the new call of duty modern warfare 2"

[halohadel]

ya i like the game, but a nuclear warhead detonated in outerspace will not cause a shock wave, destroying a satalite

[DM4717]

the reason you hear it, and the reason there is a shockwave is that the ISS isn't actually in space, it's in the upper atmosphere, so there would be some air. this would cause a much smaller shock wave, but a much larger EMP.

[rexregum]

There's not enough reaction mass where the ISS is to cause a shockwave... the simply logic being that if there was enough air for an effective reaction mass from a nuke blast, the orbit of the ISS would have decayed way too quickly due to friction with the air.

Where is ISS orbits is basically vacuum, you can't sustain orbits at attitudes where there is basically any sort of significant atmosphere, and certainly none for the nuke to work with.

[DM4717]

i actually came up with an interesting idea about that. since the emp is much more powerful, it could've super-overloaded the ISS's circuits, starting onboard fires, and possibly melting through the skin. the resulting implosion would bounce back, killing the astronaut. i don't know if it could work, but it's certainly interesting.

[rexregum]

well cool... except EMP does not work that way. EMP kills electronics by shorting them out, the smaller the electronics the more vulnerable they are. Vaccum tubes are practically immune. In any case I doubt you can really start any fires with them, simply not enough energy. The ISS certainly won't blow up from it...

I think the more likely reason is that it's just a lot cooler to see things blow up in a video game, even if it does not make any sense.

[DM4717]

i know. but considering there's never been a nuke that's been detonated in the Upper Atmosphere (and hopefully one never will), we don't know what the exact effects will be. though i think they say the EMP would be a lot stronger.

[acraze21]

Haha yea I serched the internets for nuke test in outerspace, suprisingly none!

[ceejayoz]

@DM4717 There have been space nuke tests. Search Wikipedia for "High altitude nuclear explosion". Includes pretty pics!

[UndoneEagle]

I thought the wave was supposed to be an EMP. EMP can travel through space, but I do not know about EMP tearing apart the ISS.

[LooneyTunes679]

no explosions in space, no sound in space.... no air or soundwaves for anything to bounce/travel on

[gmazin]

lol "ISS space station" is kinda redundant

[chanze555]

wtf there isn't any sound in space right?

[ShitTalkinDandylions]

that guy will float on forever

[braxtonioan]

no he wont, he lives....i kno right! haha

[blaster395]

the thing exploding would most likely create a medium of debris for it to go through.

[chicagovigilante]

@blaster395

No it wouldn't! How can a bomb in a vacuum create a "medium of debris"? Due to conservation of mass, any such medium couldn't be more massive than the bomb itself, which would make it only a few metric tons worth of material. That much mass scattered over that much space would be completely insignificant.

[vw77]

How the hell do you have a shockwave in space?

[ktigelaar]

in space everything will travel at the original speed over and over again until it hits something so this shockwave will travel to everything with the same speed and force untill it hits something and slows down

[vw77]

shockwaves need a medium to propagate through, just like sound waves do.

[Boinkmakr]

shockwaves need air smartone

[ShitTalkinDandylions]

@vw77 yeah wtf is that about

[tdad71302]

shit looks like i'm dead. i think they just took out NH.