• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    If you blow it up on the surface or in the atmosphere, sure. Blow up a 10 gigaton device, which we absolutely can make and have the materials to do so, buried as deep as you can possibly get it, so about 1.5-1.6 miles in the crust, and you’re gonna wreck a significant portion of a hemisphere.

    Especially since U-238 is one of the most abundant elements in the crust. Literally every single shovel full of dirt that you pick up has several hundred to several million atoms of U-238

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      16 hours ago

      lol no. Genuinely, no. You are a clueless fool playing with numbers you cannot comprehend.

      Even earthquakes within recorded history have released more energy than 10 gigatons. By an order of magnitude.

      You are seriously a fool that does not begin to fathom the scale of Earth.

      Look up how much energy the Valdivia, Chile earthquake in 1960 released and get back to me. Again, you petulant child failing to comprehend the topic…