https://x.com/francis_scarr/status/1635592568061718529
Another totally normal evening on Russian state TV as Solovyov and Simonyan join military commentator Yevgeny Buzhinsky in fantasising about the Poseidon underwater drone causing a nuclear tsunami that engulfs Britain pic.twitter.com/kNigUAmMo8
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) March 14, 2023
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Can nukes actually cause a tsunami? I don't know the math but water is really fricking heavy.
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Kino explanation
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-russia-poseidon-nuclear-torpedo-tsunami-1774946
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But he's lying tho. He doesn't address that water really fricking heavy problem. I also doubt that even radiation would be problem. Water very good at blocking/diffusing radiation
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Its supposedly 100 megatons Same size as the Tsar Bomba. That's a lot of energy too.
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Left number is richter scale so maybe
I got distracted making the here's what I was referring to https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_scale
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Tsar bomba was only 50 megaton actually, so it would be the equivalent to 2 Tsar Bombas
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Yeah radiation isn't an issue, when you dilute it in billions tons of water it doesn't matter. We fired dozens if not hundreds of nukes in underwater tests and no pollution problems arouse because of it.
As for tsunami, one nuke shouldn't be enough but a number properly positioned should. It's pretty pointless though since at this point you're getting nuked back for sure, and your tsunami does nothing in preventing enemy from nuking you back (and nuclear war is all about killing enemy's ability to nuke you, attacking cities is distraction that wastes valuable warheads)
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Yes, they detonated a shitton of them in the ocean at different depths to figure this out
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