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After reading the halo books i am surprised by the raw power of the N.O.V.A bomb. it shattered a moon into a billion pieces and scorched a quarter of a planet's surface from space. based on this description, what do you think the yield is of this bomb?

on a side note, what would happen if we detonated a 1 TERA TON bomb on the surface of the earth. what kind of energy would it release, what would happen to us, and what would it take to make a bomb like this.
1 teraton is equivalent to approximately 1000 gigatons which is equivalent to 10,000 megatons.
i am pretty sure my numbers are correct but forgive me if they are wrong.
I am really interested in this kind of stuff so I would appreciate it if someone could seriously answer this
Thanks :)

  • 03.07.2011 3:01 PM PDT
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I'm no scientist, but a bomb of that power could probably take out a continent if not an entire planet. It would probably kill us all.

  • 03.07.2011 3:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: Caaaarrrl
I'm no scientist, but a bomb of that power could probably take out a continent if not an entire planet. It would probably kill us all.


2012 anyone?

  • 03.07.2011 3:07 PM PDT

Interesting, thats a lot of power in one device.
thanks

  • 03.07.2011 3:20 PM PDT

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1 teraton is equivalent to approximately 1000 gigatons which is equivalent to 10,000 megatons.

1 Teraton would be 1 million megaton.

If a Tsar Bomba was dropped, it would completely annihilate a city the size of Paris. The red zone is the range of the blast wave, whilst the yellow is the diameter of the actual fireball produced. Tsar Bomba is 50 Megatons. A Teraton warhead would be 20'000 times more destructive.

A 1 Teraton device would annihilate a significant portion of the Earths surface I would think and maybe even cause an extinction level event with all the fallout and dust produced.

  • 03.07.2011 3:44 PM PDT

Anton1792

Wow that is amazing. 20,000 times more powerful than the most powerful nuke we have today...
Thats really interesting, Thanks :)

  • 03.07.2011 4:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Posted by: Caaaarrrl
I'm no scientist, but a bomb of that power could probably take out a continent if not an entire planet. It would probably kill us all.


2012 anyone?


*Sigh*, 2012 is when the Mayan Calendar resets, not when the world ends.

  • 03.07.2011 7:39 PM PDT

I remember this website where you could calculate the amount of force crashing into something and it would tell you how big the crater would be, does anyone know what this site is?

  • 03.07.2011 8:09 PM PDT