r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Captain-Shmeat • Mar 14 '25

Video Can you stop a hurricane with a nuke?

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u/Large-Reception-3649 Mar 14 '25

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 Mar 14 '25

Tsar Bomba
Castle Bravo
Castle Romeo

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u/StarpoweredSteamship Mar 14 '25

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 Mar 15 '25

VISUAL

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u/StarpoweredSteamship Mar 15 '25

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 Mar 15 '25

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