I'm sick of people that compare shit to the hiroshima nuclear bomb

[Cir]

Any time you see an article or news report about something that involves an assload of energy, it's always the Hiroshima bomb they compare it to. For starters, it's absurd since it happened over 65 years ago, and most people alive today weren't even born then. Furthermore, if you asked random people just how much energy the Hiroshima bomb involved, they wouldn't have a clue. Same with the blast radius, the cloud peak, and even the number of people and buildings destroyed. Nobody really knows, so it makes for a shitty comparison object.

Secondly, most of the time the comparisons are like "It released a hundred and fifty thousand times that of the Hiroshima bomb!"

The point of a comparison is so you can easily identify in your mind the object or event in question. If you have to envision a hundred and fifty thousand of them, it doesn't work. That's like explaining to someone that the Colosseum has so much interior space that it could accommodate thirty million ping pong balls. It just doesn't work.

Besides, they say it as if the Hiroshima bomb was actually large in terms of nuclear detonations. It was a firecracker compared to some.

[7i8_Dago]

well what are you gonna do about it?

[BlackopsNinja]

fucking me too dude, its like im hearing that shit at least once a fucking day now and not only do i not have to write a rant about it, i now know of someone else whos just as pissed about it as i am. High 5!



fuck that reference!!!!!!!!!!

[7i8_Dago]

Originally Posted by BlackopsNinja

fuck that reference!!!!!!!!!!

fuck it now, we dont like to be kept waiting

[-SpectraL]

The Tzar nuclear device was only fired at 50% yield too (100% being the equivalent of one hundred million tonnes of TNT), whereas the yield of "Little Boy" was only 15 thousand tonnes of TNT. Quite the difference. Little Boy killed over 140,000 people.

[Rhino Cock 3000]

jesus fucking christ the tzar bomba is motherfucking huge as fuck!

[-SpectraL]

Originally Posted by Rhino Cock 3000

jesus fucking christ the tzar bomba is motherfucking huge as fuck!

If the Tzar nuclear device, which is now sitting in a museum, was ever detonated on a nation at full yield, it would wipe out three quarters of the continent in one giant and colossal wave of vaporizing heat and radiation.

[Fetus-Smasher]

Its hard to fathom how quick an easily some fucker can eradicate an entire population so quickly.

[-SpectraL]

Originally Posted by Fetus-Smasher

Its hard to fathom how quick an easily some fucker can eradicate an entire population so quickly.

Some "freedom fighter" would only have to pull it into some warehouse somewhere and rig it to go off in 24 hours, just enough time for him to get out of the country safely.

[johnplywd]

Originally Posted by -Spectral

If the Tar nuclear device, which is now sitting in a museum, was ever detonated on a nation at full yield, it would wipe out three quarters of the continent in one giant and colossal wave of vaporizing heat and radiation.

Would this not depend on the size of the continent in question? A smaller continent might be completely wiped out while a larger continent might only be half wiped out

[Hammer Tank]

i wanna take that tzar bomb and hold the fucking USA hostage. get my cut of that bail out money

[-SpectraL]

Originally Posted by johnplywd

Would this not depend on the size of the continent in question? A smaller continent might be completely wiped out while a larger continent might only be half wiped out

Absolutely. I was a little loose with the term continent. But just to put this in perspective, this device was originally designed to contain 20 times the amount of explosives used in WW2 combined. The bomb itself weighs 27 tons. At half power, it can cause blast damage up to 1000 km away from the center, and so at full power we could probably expect blast damage up to 2000 km from the initial blast point (1300 mile radius), resulting in a mushroom cloud seven times higher than Mount Everest. The width of the entire United States from North Dakota to Texas is about 2000 km.

[THIS IS IMPORTANT GODDAMNIT]

I was reading the paper the other day and some stupid critic said that the carnage of the victorian fires was similar to photos of hiroshima.