Deep Impact (3/10) Movie CLIP - Detonating the First Nuke (1998) HD

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After detonating a nuclear bomb on the comet's surface, the crew of the Messiah suffers the consequences.

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Cast: Aleksandr Baluyev, O'Neal Compton, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman, Kurtwood Smith, Blair Underwood, Laura Innes, Téa Leoni, Mary McCormack
Director: Mimi Leder
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Producer: Joan Bradshaw, D. Scott Easton, Walter F. Parkes, Steven Spielberg, Richard D. Zanuck
Screenwriter: Bruce Joel Rubin, Michael Tolkin
Film Description: Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White House press conference. United States President Beck (Morgan Freeman) announces the government's solution: a team of astronauts will travel to the comet and destroy it. The team leader aboard the spaceship Messiah is Spurgeon Tanner (Robert Duvall), who was once the last man to walk on the moon. However, the mission fails, splitting off a chunk of the comet, now due to land in the Atlantic with the impact sending a 350-foot tidal wave flooding 650 miles inland, destroying New York and other cities. The larger part of the comet, hitting in Canada, will trigger an E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event), not unlike a "nuclear winter" as dust clouds block out the sun and bring life to an end. President Beck reveals Plan B: a cavernous underground retreat constructed to hold one million Americans, with most to be selected through a national lottery. Since teenage amateur astronomer Leo Biederman (Elijah Wood) discovered the comet, his family gets a pass to enter the cave, but his girlfriend Sarah (Leelee Sobieski) and her parents will be left behind. Meanwhile, still in space, Spurgeon Tanner devises a plan for a kamikaze-styled operation that could possibly save the Earth. Special visual effects by Scott Farrar and Industrial Light & Magic.

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[askadetra]

world. wake up. these things we have to fight and bomb. not to bomb each other. let there be no more wars and peace from now on. because there are worse things than human wars out there. scientists have to make the best weapon to fight asteroids and anything that would come to hit our planet. we have to protect her because gives us water, oxygen and food. in the name of our planet. wake up and make the best weapon to destroy asteroids. a weapon launching rockets that follow and destroy them.

[JOTRKID]

All that said, you are correct. It would have to be inside of the object you're aiming to harm to have a significant blast - just like in this clip. There's also the idea for a vacuum-optimized warhead where you pack mass around a bomb to help generate the shockwave, but that's speculative fiction, so I'll leave it be.

I realize since it's not a pressure wave in a medium it's not technically a shockwave, but we're just some guys on the internet. Let's not get too technical here.

[JOTRKID]

You forget the plasma shockwave generated by the casing of the weapon itself flashing to millions of degrees. Its effective range would be on the order of a comparably size conventional bomb, but you'll still feel it. You forget that bombs aren't just shockwave-generating speakers, they vaporize/plasmify themselves in order to create an explosion.

[popis2012]

No, he's actually right. Nuclear explosion in space will just emit radiation, but in space there is no matter to transfer the shockwave. You need to explode nuke on the surface of the object (or inside of it) to get a significant effect.

[JOTRKID]

There is one case in which you're right. If I tried to strike a match in space (Ignoring how difficult it would be to do that with my suit on) it wouldn't ignite. Why? Because it doesn't have its own supply of oxygen. Rockets, being effectively a controlled explosion, carry their own oxidizer and fuel supplies. If I mixed LH2 and LOX in open space and ignited them before they dispursed, I'd get a big sloppy explosion.

Short of it is this:

You believe in myths.

Learn yourself some science.

[JOTRKID]

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: Yes, but you'll need a really big bomb. It's better to use the blast to knock a comet off trajectory.

[JOTRKID]

You're quite the moron. There's nothing to prevent an explosion in space. Any conventional explosive already carries its own oxidizer, so it'll work. Since there's no atmosphere it can't form a powerful shockwave, but the gas expansion from the bomb itself will still work. Bullets work in space, too. A nuclear warhead works on wholly different principles and is arguably more effective in a vacuum than it is on ground. With no atmosphere to get in the way its IR and radiation punch is very big.

[Daniel Blaney]

all objects have gravity including the comet and the space shuttle. Heck even people have gravitational fields. The force of a nuclear explosion has absolutely nothing to do with gravity anyways.

[dylan kurrle]

my bad i farted

[milodara93]

wut?...