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Posted on 10/25/2025 4:43:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Ping! Bang! Bong!............................
Sure looks volcanic to me, but what do I know.
A Hiroshima/Nagasaki type atomic bomb is about 25-30 Kt (kilotons of TNT). So 25 x 40 = 1000 Kt, to a maximum of 1200 Kt.
Nope.
Little Boy ... exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy
"Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) ... released the energy equivalent to the detonation of 21 kilotons of TNT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man
Chen Ming, a researcher at the Centre for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research and a co-author of the study, explained that the impact released energy equivalent to 600,000 tonnes of TNT – comparable to the destructive force of 40 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.
The first thermonuclear detonation, Ivy-Mike, was over 10 megatons and created a crater over 4000 feet in diameter.
Don’t need dozens. The hyperbole nowadays is disgusting. There is no more truth or real news, just hype to get “clicks.”
That’s a picture of Meteor Crater in Arizona, not the one in China.
Yes.
BTW, there are many craters in US.
Besides the Winslow AZ, I know a very nice one in OH.
Serpent Mound in Adams County, OH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound_crater
Very cool.
No, Hiroshima was 15-20k at most, Nagasaki the same
I recently saw a picture of a crater in Arizona caused by a meteor.
It was remarkable how close it came to hitting the Visitors’ Center.
🎵 Ka-boom, ka-boom, ya da da da da da, ya da da da da da...
Ivy-Mike was an h-bomb, much more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, and years later.
There’s a small impact crater in Texas, used to be used as an outdoor concert venue.
The larger, and far older examples include Lake Manicougan in Canada.
Likely part of the comet debris strike that burned off 10% of the Earth’s vegetation, and killed the mega fauna, ushering in the Younger Dryas Event.
I understand that. I was in nuke weapons development for over 15 years and spent my entire career, from the age of 18, directly involved in nuclear weapons operation.
Most people just package everything under the rubric of "atomic bombs." They do not, and most have no idea, about the differences between all-fission devices and the fission-fusion-fission devices that are referred to as thermonuclear.
My statement was about the lack of understanding added to terrible hyperbole being used in nearly every post on the Internet to get "clicks." We have had many devices out there that could create a crater that size using just one device.
This was not a slam on you, I was one of your advocates when you were thinking about not posting any more, it was a slam on our current society and the lack of cogent thought as well as a total lack of education.
Seeing this post I immediately remembered a drive my family took across a cratered area in southern Ontario, but I could not remember the name. Then I looked at your link and saw all the Crater links listed there and immediately recognized SUDBURY:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Basin
This monster Crater was formed almost 2 billion years ago by an object about the size of modern Washington, DC. I remember it took us more than 1/2 hour to drive through it. This was around 1963 before it was officially recognized as a monster impact Crater, but my father started telling us all about it. He read a lot. I could see the impact of the many mines, and the unusual colors of the landscape, like the odd bluish green areas caused by copper deposits. This visit was one of the experiences that formed my interest in Catastrophism. Another happened when I was six years old. I still remember my father showing me the 1944 National Geographic story about a volcano that grew in a cornfield. I was amazed by that.
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