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Channel 4's Close Encounters

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Just saw an advert for this on the telly.

Looks quite interesting actually. The advert was for the Close Encounters in Siberia where in 1908 a mysterious blast ripped a hole in the earth without a trace to the equivalent sum of 1000 atomic bombs and in excess of 800 sq miles.

Makes you think really, and possibly worth a watch.
 
Lucero said:
Just saw an advert for this on the telly.

Looks quite interesting actually. The advert was for the Close Encounters in Siberia where in 1908 a mysterious blast ripped a hole in the earth without a trace to the equivalent sum of 1000 atomic bombs and in excess of 800 sq miles.

Makes you think really, and possibly worth a watch.
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that tunguska? sp?
 
Lucero said:
Just saw an advert for this on the telly.

Looks quite interesting actually. The advert was for the Close Encounters in Siberia where in 1908 a mysterious blast ripped a hole in the earth without a trace to the equivalent sum of 1000 atomic bombs and in excess of 800 sq miles.

Makes you think really, and possibly worth a watch.
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A 1000 atomic bombs? Methinks you've got your figures wrong somewhere, if you mean the 1908 Tunguska blast it was only around the 10-20 Megaton range, if not less.
 
Azagoth said:
A 1000 atomic bombs? Methinks you've got your figures wrong somewhere, if you mean the 1908 Tunguska blast it was only around the 10-20 Megaton range, if not less.
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I've just seen the add and the voiceover does indeed say 1000 atomic bombs.

Looks interesting though, I'm gonna watch it.

EDIT: from Wiki...

Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 megatons to as high as 30 megatons of TNT, with 10–15 megatons the most likely, roughly equal to the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear explosion set off in late February 1954, about 1,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan
 
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Azagoth said:
A 1000 atomic bombs? Methinks you've got your figures wrong somewhere, if you mean the 1908 Tunguska blast it was only around the 10-20 Megaton range, if not less.
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Which would make it roughly 1000 times the energy of the Hiroshima blast, and less than half that of the biggest nuke detonated by man.

It really is a retarded measure though "the force of a thousand atomic bombs", after all there are plenty of 'battlefield' tactical nukes which are calibrated to give off an explosion of 'only' a few tons. Hence it could be described as 'the force of a million atomic bombs' if you like. Or half of one. Or just "a very big bang"
 
Wikipedia said:
Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 megatons to as high as 30 megatons of TNT, with 10–15 megatons the most likely—roughly equal to the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear explosion set off in late February 1954, about 1,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan and about one-third the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
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:)


Might watch this if I remember.
 
Azagoth said:
Yes I know, but I doubt the programme makers or the people behind the advertising were on about small tactical nukes. They wanted people to think of the larger city levelling variety. :)
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When ever people state power of atomic bomb they usually mean Hiroshima which sounds about right in this case.
 
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