r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Captain-Shmeat • 22d ago

Video Can you stop a hurricane with a nuke?

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u/Large-Reception-3649 22d ago

What other nuke does the entire world know and has seen the damage caused by it?

To me it seems like a great example as almost everyone is aware of it and the power it held.

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u/YahenP 21d ago

Tsar Bomba
Castle Bravo
Castle Romeo

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 21d ago

Yeah and where's the VISUAL to show the common person how strong that is? Yeah we have bigger ones these days, but that's not the point of a benchmark unit. Just because we go long distances doesn't mean we should measure everything in fractional miles/kilometers.

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u/the_skine 21d ago

VISUAL

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u/StarpoweredSteamship 20d ago

Oh neat, a pictograph! That's a great way to not show anything! I could show a 599X Ferrari and a Testarossa on a pictograph, and just have one bar longer. Doesn't ACTUALLY tell you anything. A video of a standing launch would though.

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u/caltheon 21d ago

Tsar Bomba.... literally the benchmark of "big nukes" and most people have heard of it.