Baker Test

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[puncheex]

@marauderrt10: Oh, man, what book did you read? Germany tried to start a bomb effort, but it was undermined by Hitler and Speer, who wanted something NOW. They never got beyond a subcritical heavy water reactor.

The woman scientist was, I assume, Lise Meitner, a Jewish Austrian, who left Germany right after the Anschluss. She did great work but never spoke out.

A single nitrogen atom, completely converted to energy, would be .00000014 joule. You're 19 orders of magnitude off.

[puncheex]

For lots and lots of fun trivia or enraging facts, depending on your outlook, see the wiki article on "Crossroads Baker". Among others, some 10 lbs of Plutonium was the chief contaminant, but it's radiation can't be detected by a Geiger counter. Adm. Blandy called off decontam efforts after ten days when PU was detected in his own cabin. Radio-sodium was the largest gamma ray emitter. Traditional naval cleaning was found to be ineffective for decontamination.

[puncheex]

@Joaquin602001: More spectacular is, in the footage above, there is a dark streak on the right side of the vertical water column. that's believed to be the battleship Arkansas, upended. It sank immediately. The Saratoga was lifted 30 feet vertically but survived, only to sink eight hours later.

[puncheex]

@adamperedo: No. Tsunamis are created by great masses of water (measured in cubic km of water) being displaced permanently. This caused just a quick wave which extended outward perhaps ten miles before dissipating completely. Blasts like this create what is known by engineers as an "impedance mis-match" with the ocean, and little of the total energy is transferred. Better would be to raise or lower the floor of the ocean 15 feet over tens of square km. Also, this happened inside a lagoon.

[puncheex]

@PabloakaChuck360: "They" shouldn't be listened to. If it had detonated under ground, so all the energy went into shaking rock, it would have been equivalent to a 7.1 Richter earthquake, which happen about two per month normally. In fact, without the atmospheric effects it would have been less destructive than it was, breaking windows 900 km away.

[MultiStellato]

@PabloakaChuck360

[PabloakaChuck360]

Tsar bomb created a 5 degree ritcher scale earthquake and that bomb was detonated in mid air. They said that if they detonated it on the ground, they would have got a huge earthquake, capable of causing destructive tremors in Europe, all the way from Russia....

[PabloakaChuck360]

Haven't thought of that....

[mistycusa1]

song name?

[retepvosnul]

That weird old book ? Nah, it is a ancient silly story.