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