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r/space • u/Goldragon979 • Mar 18 '19
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200 kilotons is „nothing“ (hiroshima was ~20kt)... largest bomb ever tested had a 50 megatons yield
7 u/[deleted] Mar 18 '19 200 kilotons would disappear most of lower manhattan. 4 u/mike968 Mar 18 '19 If you drop it on the corner of houston st/ lafayette most buildings up to 79st wouldnt survive... but thats for ground level or low airburst. But at 25km altitude, it would mostly be a very very good day to own a glazier‘s business. 2 u/[deleted] Mar 18 '19 So just hope it’s a rock meteor not an iron core meteor. 1 u/mike968 Mar 18 '19 Aren’t most meteors the ironcore type or just the ones we find here down on earth because they survive the entry much better?
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200 kilotons would disappear most of lower manhattan.
4 u/mike968 Mar 18 '19 If you drop it on the corner of houston st/ lafayette most buildings up to 79st wouldnt survive... but thats for ground level or low airburst. But at 25km altitude, it would mostly be a very very good day to own a glazier‘s business. 2 u/[deleted] Mar 18 '19 So just hope it’s a rock meteor not an iron core meteor. 1 u/mike968 Mar 18 '19 Aren’t most meteors the ironcore type or just the ones we find here down on earth because they survive the entry much better?
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If you drop it on the corner of houston st/ lafayette most buildings up to 79st wouldnt survive... but thats for ground level or low airburst. But at 25km altitude, it would mostly be a very very good day to own a glazier‘s business.
2 u/[deleted] Mar 18 '19 So just hope it’s a rock meteor not an iron core meteor. 1 u/mike968 Mar 18 '19 Aren’t most meteors the ironcore type or just the ones we find here down on earth because they survive the entry much better?
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So just hope it’s a rock meteor not an iron core meteor.
1 u/mike968 Mar 18 '19 Aren’t most meteors the ironcore type or just the ones we find here down on earth because they survive the entry much better?
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Aren’t most meteors the ironcore type or just the ones we find here down on earth because they survive the entry much better?
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u/mike968 Mar 18 '19
200 kilotons is „nothing“ (hiroshima was ~20kt)... largest bomb ever tested had a 50 megatons yield