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7/28/2012 12:47:33 PM
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What Would Occur if a Super MAC Fired into the Planet?
Okay, we had the scene at the end of ONI: Sword Base, but that was likely a low-power shot.
If I recall correctly, a super MAC has a yield in the gigatons, though it may have been retconned. That's more than a hundred times the energy of the Tsar Bomba, which was already unimaginably powerful. I'm guessing it could potentially be more effective at glassing a planet than the covenant energy projectors, and possibly even causing earthquakes and tectonic disturbances(I am not a geologist).
[Edited on 07.28.2012 5:52 AM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] xXIHAYD0IXx [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] LoopyA muffin 3 Any large explosion like this would send tons of ash and dust into the atmosphere blotting out the sun . That is what nuclear winter is.[/quote]I hate to break it to you, but that would require an explose more on the order of 96,000 gigatons (you know, the estimated force of the asteroid that impacted Earth resulting in mass extinction). EDIT- 51.6 gigatons != 51,600,000 megatons. Try 51,600 megatons.[/quote] And you have no idea how physics work. 51.6 gigatons of firepower is enough to cause massive nuclear winter-like by kicking up lot of smoke, dust and dirt caused by impact area, clouding the atmosphere which it will severely affect the ecosystem. Few good examples would be like this: Toba eruption, Yellowstone eruption, Karakota eruption (estimated to be 200 megatons), etc that caused nuclear-like winters for short of time. So yes, it will affect the life on earth via altering ecosystem and biosphere. Gigatons = half to entire state killers. That's how it works. [Edited on 07.30.2012 10:09 AM PDT]
