Thread: How does blast size scale with energy required?
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Old 10-July-2008, 03:49 PM
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Air bursts still transfer energy, but the formula for crater radius and depth becomes more complicated. It is still basically based on the volume to be vaporized, but also includes factors having to do with lost energy in other directions.
That's the part that I knew there was no way I was going to figure it out. To vaporize organic material (plants and animals) on the surface out to a radius of a 1000 miles, or 500, with an airburst would take what?
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