tsunamis? no. earthquakes would be from an underground burst, a R 7.2 is about a megaton of energy. but a BIG quake like an 8.5 would be out of reach of deployable weapons (85 megatons).
my ignorance? you're the one with hollywood script ideas, you're scaring yourself.
no, the typical weapon doesn't have the yield to take out a large city. there are exceptional weapons that have been tested that can do that (e.g. castle bravo, tsar bomb) but they aren't deployable on missiles
my perspective? I post such things to get people to think about the mentality behind nuclear arsenals, and the reality that a nuclear war IS a thinkable thing to the military.
My own opinion is that any kind of bomb is a cowardly weapon; nuclear ones especially.
if air burst there is no fallout. long term problem solved.
if ground burst, one megaton of yield will make about 90,000 curies of strontium 90, or about 100,000 curies of long lived stuff. Chernobyl released about 220,000 curies of strontium 90....note things grow there and animals live. so a thousand weapons can mess up a large country, but not kill everyone, too many square miles and too few bombs
that is absolutely a false statement, the USA does not possess enough warheads to kill every human on the planet, let alone every living thing. a thousand weapons could not even kill 80% of the people in a large country like Russia or China or India; too many cities, not enough bombs.
you watch too much Hollywood and have an exaggerated notion of what nuclear weapons can do
The current estimate is about 4 billion years. see wikipedia article on the subject. according to latest simulations, there is 50% chance the sun and its planets would be thrown three times the current distance from the galactic core, and a 12% chance the solar system would be ejected altogether. but this would have no effect on the planet's orbit around the Sun, the solar system would probably be undisturbed. long before then, expansion of the sun will cause the earth to be too hot for liquid water, in about 1.4 billion years. likely too hot for creatures like us and most animals/plants in 400 million years assuming we don't change into something else. amazing we can even study and analyze such concepts!
"with not much on the horizon in terms of applications or fundamental discoveries"
what nonsense, the Standard Model does not address: natural of dark matter and other exotic matter reason for abundance of matter over antimatter nature of cosmic inflation, dark energy nature of gravitation, relationship to general relativity if quantized source of dark flow quantum vacuum effect on expansion of universe CMB obversed properties not in agreement with theory are there magnetic monopoles? neutrino rest mass source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
there are HUGE things on the horizon for fundamental discoveries in physics.
nature and composition of dark matter is there a relationsip between gravity and strong / electroweak forces? can general relativety be combined with quantum theory? nature and source of cosmic inflation source of baryon asymmetry, more matter than antimatter
The rules of the English language are inconsistent, complex, and in many cases only recently standardised in the last 200 years. Your abilities as a scientist must be sub-par if you hadn't noticed.
you have a misconception, women do not "produce one egg a month". A women is born with all the eggs she'll ever have in her ovaries. Normally one of them is released a month after puberty, but there are ways of stimulating the release of more or of getting more
you're confused, that was just the Romanized spelling of Galactic Basic name in the credits.
Corran: "Do any of you speak Basic?"
Zun-qin: "I speak your infidel tongue. It tastes like the waste excretions of an ill vhlor on my tongue, but I can speak it. Please, ask me something so I may deny it to you."
funny you'd think there would be a correct spelling in roman letters, for the english tongue, of a name from millions of years ago in a galaxy millions of light-years away. We could mispell it in Aurebesh....
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tsunamis? no. earthquakes would be from an underground burst, a R 7.2 is about a megaton of energy. but a BIG quake like an 8.5 would be out of reach of deployable weapons (85 megatons).
my ignorance? you're the one with hollywood script ideas, you're scaring yourself.
no, the typical weapon doesn't have the yield to take out a large city. there are exceptional weapons that have been tested that can do that (e.g. castle bravo, tsar bomb) but they aren't deployable on missiles
my perspective? I post such things to get people to think about the mentality behind nuclear arsenals, and the reality that a nuclear war IS a thinkable thing to the military.
My own opinion is that any kind of bomb is a cowardly weapon; nuclear ones especially.
yes, much more can be destroyed with ten 100kt bombs spaced appropriately, less energy wasted.
if air burst there is no fallout. long term problem solved.
if ground burst, one megaton of yield will make about 90,000 curies of strontium 90, or about 100,000 curies of long lived stuff. Chernobyl released about 220,000 curies of strontium 90....note things grow there and animals live. so a thousand weapons can mess up a large country, but not kill everyone, too many square miles and too few bombs
make the number too small and the odds of "winning" (elite survive) become attractive despite downsides.
that is absolutely a false statement, the USA does not possess enough warheads to kill every human on the planet, let alone every living thing. a thousand weapons could not even kill 80% of the people in a large country like Russia or China or India; too many cities, not enough bombs.
you watch too much Hollywood and have an exaggerated notion of what nuclear weapons can do
many of the visible ones already each have multiple names. make all the names you like, it doesn't matter.
Polaris, UMi, Ursae Minoris, Alpha Ursae Minoris, North Star, Northern Star, Pole Star, Lodestar, Guiding star
Barnard's star, Barnard's Runaway Star, Greyhound of the Skies, Proxima Ophiuchi, Velox Barnardi
Alpha Centauri, Rigel Kentm, Rigil Ken, Toliman, Bermbermgle
Betelguese, Alpha Orionis, Alpha Ori
Vega, Wega, Lucida Lyrae, Alpha Lyrae
Tau Ceti, Durre Menthor, Tertia Struthionum
Spica, Azimech, Spica Virginis, Alaraph, Dana, Virgini
The current estimate is about 4 billion years. see wikipedia article on the subject. according to latest simulations, there is 50% chance the sun and its planets would be thrown three times the current distance from the galactic core, and a 12% chance the solar system would be ejected altogether. but this would have no effect on the planet's orbit around the Sun, the solar system would probably be undisturbed. long before then, expansion of the sun will cause the earth to be too hot for liquid water, in about 1.4 billion years. likely too hot for creatures like us and most animals/plants in 400 million years assuming we don't change into something else. amazing we can even study and analyze such concepts!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision
you are thinking war with Russia is impossible now? 1,000 is not enough against them.
where do you get the absurd idea that nuclear weapons could even kill all the population once? Hollywood?
shouldn't have left grand unified field theory out of that list: how does gravitation fit in with strong/electroweak force?
in a perhaps related question, how are the values of dimensionless physical constants realized in the universe?
"with not much on the horizon in terms of applications or fundamental discoveries"
what nonsense, the Standard Model does not address:
natural of dark matter and other exotic matter
reason for abundance of matter over antimatter
nature of cosmic inflation, dark energy
nature of gravitation, relationship to general relativity if quantized
source of dark flow
quantum vacuum effect on expansion of universe
CMB obversed properties not in agreement with theory
are there magnetic monopoles?
neutrino rest mass
source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
nonsense, the list of what is unanswered is long
there are HUGE things on the horizon for fundamental discoveries in physics.
nature and composition of dark matter
is there a relationsip between gravity and strong / electroweak forces?
can general relativety be combined with quantum theory?
nature and source of cosmic inflation
source of baryon asymmetry, more matter than antimatter
and about a dozen more...
The rules of the English language are inconsistent, complex, and in many cases only recently standardised in the last 200 years. Your abilities as a scientist must be sub-par if you hadn't noticed.
what a silly misconception you have. a clone is merely a sibling, like a twin. a clone has no memories whatsoever of the donor
you have a misconception, women do not "produce one egg a month". A women is born with all the eggs she'll ever have in her ovaries. Normally one of them is released a month after puberty, but there are ways of stimulating the release of more or of getting more
that's where Mary went; Dolly was sure to go
true, but guess what type of jobs the graduates apply?
you're confused, that was just the Romanized spelling of Galactic Basic name in the credits.
Corran: "Do any of you speak Basic?"
Zun-qin: "I speak your infidel tongue. It tastes like the waste excretions of an ill vhlor on my tongue, but I can speak it. Please, ask me something so I may deny it to you."
she had a nice pair of cannons back in the day
nonsense, I live in the north and find Daylight Saving to be a waste of resources and time with no purpose.
everyone with a brain, sign the new whitehouse petition to get rid of this nonsense once and forever: http://wh.gov/fh4k
funny you'd think there would be a correct spelling in roman letters, for the english tongue, of a name from millions of years ago in a galaxy millions of light-years away. We could mispell it in Aurebesh....
well of course, the thing ended in 1983 why would Ford wait around for 16 years.....and then it started up again with horrific sequels
drinking? she likes cocaine, even in the days of acting for Star Wars.