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Like if you had a swimming pool with a deep end and jumped to the bottom, would that be good enough? Assume .25 mile distance from the device and a small fission device.
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I guess it's the difference between being roasted or boiled.I'm consitently stupid- Japher
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The Predator nuke was very small, sub-kiloton. A hottub might do.(\__/) Save a bunny, eat more Smurf!
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But, would you glow in the dark?
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Is the nuke detonated in or above the water? If in, I suspect the shock wave would kill you a long way away.Comment
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Are we trying to determine how much water a normal person would need to survive? Or how much water Arnold Schwarzenegger would need (answer: none)?Comment
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Is the water being held in a fridge?"In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, HyperionComment
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Is it a European or African nuke?
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Interesting question. Are we talking about the radiation only? Water is a good protector against radiation. A minimal thickness (6"? 1'?) is sufficient to shield human beings against radiation on a spaceship outside the Van Allen belts, for instance.
In any event, I would like to see the actual calculations.Last edited by DanS; March 9, 2009, 11:13.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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People are still talking about that?Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi View Post
Remember Temple of Doom, when they survived falling out of a plane by using a life raft?
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That one is a hell of a lot more believable than the refrigerator. OF course, that's not saying much.Originally posted by Felch View PostIt's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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What made it especially awful was the fact that it served absolutely no purpose in the plot. That whole section could have been erased and the story would have been no different. Unless the rest of the movie was a fevered hallucination he was experiencing while dying of radiation sickness. In that case, the film suddenly makes a lot more sense.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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Depends what you mean by small. With small devices, the amount of damage and the direction and power of the firestorm and radiation would depend on the actual size, the point of detonation in terms of above, on, or under ground, and the nature of the intervening buildings and such. "Small" as in 10 tons, a few inches of water would be sufficient if there were intervening buildings. "Small" as in 2,000,000 pounds = 1 kiloton, and the ground, including the pool, .25 mile away would be part of the mushroom cloud, meaning anyone in that pool would be radioactive dust.
Most small devices are the equivalent of less than one megaton of TNT. That's a lot of explosion at the high end. Those weights are not related to what the BOMBS weigh, only to the damage they do.
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1/4 Megaton != 125 tons, unless my definition of 'mega' and '1/4' are dramatically off, or your usage of 'ton' is not what I think it is.
The above was mentioned as sub-KILOton, which is three orders of magnitude smaller than something that's an order of magnitude less than a megaton.<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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