What can 10,000 H-bombs do?

[BuckTurgidson]

Or 20,000 or 50,000 or whatever thousands you care. I am curious to hear what everyone thinks.

[BabyRider]

Besides obliterate the planet? I'm not sure I understand the question...

[capt_buzzard]

I'd do as one american once said ''Put your head between your knees and kiss your arse goodbye.''

[BuckTurgidson]

Originally Posted by BabyRider

Besides obliterate the planet? I'm not sure I understand the question...

Okay, what can the power or energy of 10,000 H-bombs do? I am attempting to discover what other people think are the uses for this type of energy projection.

[anastrophe]

Originally Posted by BuckTurgidson

Okay, what can the power or energy of 10,000 H-bombs do? I am attempting to discover what other people think are the uses for this type of energy projection.

bombs, by definition, are for blowing things up. what other use do you think they have?

[BuckTurgidson]

Originally Posted by anastrophe

bombs, by definition, are for blowing things up. what other use do you think they have?

Thanks for the science lesson. Okay then, what can you blow up with all these H-bombs?

[BabyRider]

Originally Posted by BuckTurgidson

Okay then, what can you blow up with all these H-bombs?

Whatever you want, I'd think....

[anastrophe]

Originally Posted by BuckTurgidson

Thanks for the science lesson. Okay then, what can you blow up with all these H-bombs?

anything. next question.

on second thought, how about *you* tell *us* where you're going with this?

[BuckTurgidson]

Originally Posted by anastrophe

anything. next question.

on second thought, how about *you* tell *us* where you're going with this?

Since you insist...

In my humble opinion, most people tend to look at the Hydrogen Bomb as having a sole purpose...to destroy our Earth. To me, thats a very narrow way of looking at it. After all, if the Bomb can destroy the Earth, and the Earth is a planet, cannot the Bomb destroy any planet? (of relative size, of course)

[anastrophe]

Originally Posted by BuckTurgidson

Since you insist...

In my humble opinion, most people tend to look at the Hydrogen Bomb as having a sole purpose...to destroy our Earth. To me, thats a very narrow way of looking at it.

there's a problem of definitions here. we need a working definition of "destroy the/our earth".

1.If by Destroy the Earth you mean cause the earth to break apart and be functionally/materially destroyed, then no, not even 10,000 H bombs would do the trick. the best they might do is about a few seconds to the length of a year, by slowing the earth's path around the sun slightly (and that would require that the all be set off in one spot on earth - if distributed across the face of the globe, even that wouldn't happen). now, i don't know if anyone has looked into it very deeply, but i suppose if 10,000 H bombs were piled one on top of the other, all on top of a 'fragile' tectonic fault zone, it might be possible to trigger a pretty significant earthquake, that could cause a pretty fair bit of damage to the crust. but again, i don't think that would qualify as 'Destroying the Earth'.

2.If by Destroy the Earth you mean cause all life on the planet to cease, again, that won't do it. it would probably bring about the grand age of the insects, anthropods, molds, sea sponges, trilobites, dandelions, and scotch broom, but it wouldn't kill off every living thing by a longshot.

3.If by Destroy the Earth you mean cause all *human* life on the planet to cease, again, that won't do it. even without any advance warning, there are people who would survive, and possibly thrive. the earth's pretty big, and even targetting 10,000 H bombs as evenly as possible over the land surface of the earth wouldn't get everyone.

After all, if the Bomb can destroy the Earth, and the Earth is a planet, cannot the Bomb destroy any planet? (of relative size, of course)

this brings us back to the definition, and the intent.

if case one above, we know it won't 'blow up' a whole planet. so that one's out.

if case two or three above, i'm not aware of any other planets that have been determined to have life on them. there probably are, the odds are in that favor, but it's as yet not confirmed.

the next question that arises from all of this is: why would you want to destroy another planet?