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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pmafire!russ
  3. From: russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown)
  4. Message-ID: <1992Nov5.164429.24152@pmafire.inel.gov>
  5. Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 16:44:29 GMT
  6. Organization: WINCO
  7. Subject: Re: "average" underground nuclear explosion (was : moving comets)
  8. Summary: 
  9. References: <Bx3J9M.KCL.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  10. Followup-To: 
  11. Distribution: sci
  12. Organization: WINCO
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  16. In article <Bx3J9M.KCL.1@cs.cmu.edu> pgf@srl05.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering") writes:
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  19. >>I read once that the average underground nuclear explosion created spaces
  20. >>in rock half a mile across.  (Anyone confirm this?)
  21. >>Andy.
  22. >
  23. >Average underground nuclear explosion? This implies that they're
  24. >naturally occuring or something...
  25. >
  26. >I think it's a lot less than this, otherwise the underground testing
  27. >ranges in Nevada would be running out of rock...
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  29.  
  30. The larger ones go about 400 ft high by 1200 deep.  Lots of smaller ones
  31. were done.
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