Current Events > Hurricane vs Nuclear Bomb whats more powerful?

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Nuclear hurricane
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Nuke.

Muffinz0rz posted...

Nuclear hurricane

SwatterXX posted...

Nuke.

fake news
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God help us if a hurricane ever learns where the bombs are
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Nuclear hurricane

Nuclear Sharknado would be more devastating
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Hurricane easily.
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Do you mean the initial blast radius or the fallout radius ?
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Nuclicane, A SyFy original premiering soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keFbR7PkIy0
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the hurricane learns of the launch codes

floods washington

and punches the code in via high powered winds


now the world is at the mercy of Hurricane Kim
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A hurricane is more powerful, but a nuke is much, much more focused. If you could somehow compress all the energy of a hurricane into the area of a nuclear blast, it would be absolutely gargantuan in nature.
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I'm not gonna joke about this. Nukes are much worse

They obliterate everything. What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki should've taught us this.
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K181 posted...

A hurricane is more powerful, but a nuke is much, much more focused. If you could somehow compress all the energy of a hurricane into the area of a nuclear blast, it would be absolutely gargantuan in nature.

What about the Tsar Bomba ?

That thing was originally intended to be a 100 megatons but scaled down to about 50 megatons.
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JosefuJustice11 posted...

I'm not gonna joke about this. Nukes are much worse

They obliterate everything. What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki should've taught us this.

Not to mention those nukes are like fire crackers compared to modern nuke.
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

K181 posted...

A hurricane is more powerful, but a nuke is much, much more focused. If you could somehow compress all the energy of a hurricane into the area of a nuclear blast, it would be absolutely gargantuan in nature.

What about the Tsar Bomba ?

That thing was originally intended to be a 100 megatons but scaled down to about 50 megatons.

Well, according to this....

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes.

Damn.
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JosefuJustice11 posted...

I'm not gonna joke about this. Nukes are much worse

They obliterate everything. What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki should've taught us this.

Worse, but not more powerful. Just that hurricanes are much more spread out, last longer, and the energy is in different forms.
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/energy-hurricane-volcano-earthquake1.htm

If we crunch the numbers for an average hurricane (1.5 cm/day of rain, circle radius of 665 km), we get a gigantic amount of energy: 6.0 x 10^14 Watts or 5.2 x 10^19 Joules/day!

This is equivalent to about 200 times the total electrical generating capacity on the planet! NASA says that "during its life cycle a hurricane can expend as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs!" And we're just talking about average hurricanes here, not Katrina.

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LightHawKnight posted...

JosefuJustice11 posted...

I'm not gonna joke about this. Nukes are much worse

They obliterate everything. What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki should've taught us this.

Not to mention those nukes are like fire crackers compared to modern nuke.

Exactly. It's funny how the world continued to develop it's nuclear arsenal when those were already more powerful then any military could ever need.
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Sir Will posted...

JosefuJustice11 posted...

I'm not gonna joke about this. Nukes are much worse

They obliterate everything. What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki should've taught us this.

Worse, but not more powerful. Just that hurricanes are much more spread out, last longer, and the energy is in different forms.

I wasn't trying to say nukes are more powerful then a hurricane.

Just that the devastation it causes is far worse. Even if it's a more focused area.
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JosefuJustice11 posted...

Sir Will posted...

JosefuJustice11 posted...

I'm not gonna joke about this. Nukes are much worse

They obliterate everything. What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki should've taught us this.

Worse, but not more powerful. Just that hurricanes are much more spread out, last longer, and the energy is in different forms.

I wasn't trying to say nukes are more powerful then a hurricane.

Just that the devastation it causes is far worse. Even if it's a more focused area.

No. I disagree. Nukes cause all their destruction at once. Hurricanes go on for hours.

Strictly speaking, on the grand scheme of things, man will never be better at killing man than mother nature. Add in astronomical events like gamma ray bursts, solar flares, asteroids, etc, and nukes are like spitballs in comparison.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

JosefuJustice11 posted...

Sir Will posted...

JosefuJustice11 posted...

I'm not gonna joke about this. Nukes are much worse

They obliterate everything. What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki should've taught us this.

Worse, but not more powerful. Just that hurricanes are much more spread out, last longer, and the energy is in different forms.

I wasn't trying to say nukes are more powerful then a hurricane.

Just that the devastation it causes is far worse. Even if it's a more focused area.

No. I disagree. Nukes cause all their destruction at once. Hurricanes go on for hours.

Strictly speaking, on the grand scheme of things, man will never be better at killing man than mother nature. Add in astronomical events like gamma ray bursts, solar flares, asteroids, etc, and nukes are like spitballs in comparison.

But that nuke could be targeted at a big city full of millions of people and wipe them all out at once in one fell swoop. I'm judging the devastation by the loss off life in the shortest time possible.
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JosefuJustice11 posted...

But that nuke could be targeted at a big city full of millions of people and wipe them all out at once in one fell swoop. I'm judging the devastation by the loss off life in the shortest time possible.

the nukes destroyed as much as they did because they were basically surprise attacks. Nobody was expecting that kind of devestation from a tiny plane.

if you gave people 5 days notice to evacuate or get nuked, the nuke would kill a lot less people.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

JosefuJustice11 posted...

But that nuke could be targeted at a big city full of millions of people and wipe them all out at once in one fell swoop. I'm judging the devastation by the loss off life in the shortest time possible.

the nukes destroyed as much as they did because they were basically surprise attacks. Nobody was expecting that kind of devestation from a tiny plane.

if you gave people 5 days notice to evacuate or get nuked, the nuke would kill a lot less people.

I understand that and circumstance plays a big part.

But a modern nuke would be way more powerful and affect a larger area. And in the event that the plane carrying the nuke goes undetected they could set it off with no time for preparation.

Not to mention the lasting effects of the radioactive contamination left behind in it's wake. Everything is obliterated and the area is devastated.
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JosefuJustice11 posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

JosefuJustice11 posted...

But that nuke could be targeted at a big city full of millions of people and wipe them all out at once in one fell swoop. I'm judging the devastation by the loss off life in the shortest time possible.

the nukes destroyed as much as they did because they were basically surprise attacks. Nobody was expecting that kind of devestation from a tiny plane.

if you gave people 5 days notice to evacuate or get nuked, the nuke would kill a lot less people.

I understand that and circumstance plays a big part.

But a modern nuke would be way more powerful and affect a larger area. And in the event that the plane carrying the nuke goes undetected they could set it off with no time for preparation.

Not to mention the lasting effects of the radioactive contamination left behind in it's wake. Everything is obliterated and the area is devastated.

If everyone stayed in Houston, Victoria, and other cities hit hard by Harvey, and just allowed themselves to get hit full on, I guarantee the death toll would make nukes mad jelly.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

JosefuJustice11 posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

JosefuJustice11 posted...

But that nuke could be targeted at a big city full of millions of people and wipe them all out at once in one fell swoop. I'm judging the devastation by the loss off life in the shortest time possible.

the nukes destroyed as much as they did because they were basically surprise attacks. Nobody was expecting that kind of devestation from a tiny plane.

if you gave people 5 days notice to evacuate or get nuked, the nuke would kill a lot less people.

I understand that and circumstance plays a big part.

But a modern nuke would be way more powerful and affect a larger area. And in the event that the plane carrying the nuke goes undetected they could set it off with no time for preparation.

Not to mention the lasting effects of the radioactive contamination left behind in it's wake. Everything is obliterated and the area is devastated.

If everyone stayed in Houston, Victoria, and other cities hit hard by Harvey, and just allowed themselves to get hit full on, I guarantee the death toll would make nukes mad jelly.

That's because people can prepare ahead of time for hurricanes. Nukes are not more powerful but can be more devastating for the fact that they can be specifically targeted without warning and contaminate an area for years to come.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Nuclear hurricane

Can...can you do that? Just put those things together?
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EverDownward posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

Nuclear hurricane

Can...can you do that? Just put those things together?

ChromaticAngel posted...

Nuclicane, A SyFy original premiering soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keFbR7PkIy0

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A nuke can kill more people than a hurricane ever could.
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