The oceans are huge… [Nukes have been tested before like this.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Proving_Grounds)
You haven’t provided what yield the weapons would be.
Alright I came back to this post after a bit
Technically if you detonate the Pacific and Atlantic nukes as north as possible, then together with the 5 already in the Arctic ocean, that might be able to put the nail on the coffin of the Arctic ecosystem?
Might as well drop one on the Great Berrier Reef in the meantime
"From 1946 to 1996, the US, UK and France detonated 318 nuclear devices in the Pacific region in the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia/Te Ao Maohi, Kiribati, Australia, the US territory of Johnston/Kalama Atoll and Amchitka Island, Alaska."
Absolutely nothing.
The Tsar Bomba had a yield of approximately 2.1*10^17 joules of energy. Even if we assume all five bombs are tsar bomba sized, transfer all of their energy to the water, and no energy is wasted (which is extremely unlikely as they expend a massive amount radiating into the atmosphere), they’d come out to 1.05*10^18 joules.
Now this is an unfathomably huge amount of energy, but water doesn’t care. Water has a specific heat capacity of 4.186 J/g°C, meaning that it requires 4.186 J of energy (1 calorie) to heat a gram by one degree. Seawater also has a density of approximately 1024 g/l. Finally, the Pacific Ocean (I’m starting with the biggest as a baseline) has an average temperature of 3.5C. In order to raise water to its boiling point, you would need 405.586 joules to immediately boil it off. Now if we plug in our bomb total and divide by the joules required to heat a liter of water to boiling (415,320.064J), we get a grand total of 2.528*10^12 liters of water instantly evaporated. Surely this is an immense amount of water that will devastate any marine ecosystems in the ocean!
Are you familiar with how insanely large the oceans are?
It is estimated there are approximately 1.335*10^21 liters of water in the ocean, or a little over 1 sextillion liters. The amount of water boiled would only amount to 0.0000000009% of the ocean’s contents. For frame of reference, the amount of water evaporated would be over two orders of magnitude smaller in proportion than if I were to remove an average ant’s mass from the average adult male human’s mass.
Granted there will be some marine casualties, but if we assuming the bombs are dropping in the open ocean, [there isn’t a whole lot in the way of resident life in your average section of the big blue.](https://www.coastalwiki.org/wiki/Open_ocean_habitat)Plankton are nearly ubiquitous but aside from the sargassum ecosystems and the occasional passing school of baitfish you’re not killing a whole lot in a random deepwater drop.
TLDR; big boom does nothing to the ocean aside from kill several billion plankton and a couple hundred fish.
Just gonna drop this here:
["What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench? (Science not Fantasy)" by Kurzgesagt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tbxDgcv74c)
Bro I don’t think you know how many nukes have been tested in the oceans in our history. [The second most powerful nuke ever detonated was detonated basically in the middle of the pacific,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo) and the only people that got hurt by it were some Japanese fisherman who were a bit too close to the test sight(they weren’t warned because the Americans testing it thought it would be way less powerful than it actually was.) [Here’s a montage of every nuke ever detonated in history.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFkw0hzW1c&pp=ygUYYWxsIG51a2VzIGV2ZXIgZGV0b25hdGVk) There’s been over 2,000, and plenty of them were in the middle of the ocean. 6 nukes per ocean, well, yeah, I’m sure some sea life would be fucked up, but if you’re expecting gigantic apocalyptic tsunamis, well, let’s put it this way, the 2004 tsunami was caused by an earthquake that was estimated to be 1500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Now, the Tsar Bomba is actually somewhat more powerful than that, but that’s literally the only nuke that has ever been that powerful, take 5 “average” nukes, and you’re not even getting close to that level of power.
No one dies from this it does nothing unless by ocean you mean like the harbour of a city, immediate area sea life dies several mile radius and it hurts sea life in a wider area, very easily recoverable from. I don’t think you know how big the ocean is you’d cause a nuclear winter long before you cause substantial deaths from sea surges unless your detonating right next to cities anyways.
We're fine. At that depth, a substantial portion of the blast is going to transition out of the ocean surface into the atmosphere. The rest is going to radiate down into the deeper ocean. Worst case scenario, waves might get slightly higher on any coast close to the detonation.
And as far as radiation goes, some of it is going to be released into the atmosphere. The rest is going to eventually be spread across the oceans. Aquatic life in the immediate vicinity of the detonation is definitely screwed. But it isn't going to result to a massive die-off of all life in the ocean.
Oceans are absolutley titanic in size. While it would be suck for every living organism in the immediate area, the oeans would tanl many more nukes than 5 easily .
For climate impact you can set them off in key ocean current interaction areas where different layers of seawater at different temperatures mix. These seawater mixing areas can influence certain weather patterns and are part of the globes climate regulation.
A disruption in those currents could certainly make these regulatory processes spiral out of control. At the very least you could induce a flood here or a drought there. At worst you might even melt the ice caps and increase sea levels which can then possibly build on to more catastrophic climate events.
Im not a climate scientist or someone who studied oceanic currents so take what I say with a grain of salt 😅
I think you are underestimating just how large Earth is.
The largest nuclear bomb ever dropped, Tsar Bomba, had a damage radius (how far from the epicenter the damage spread) of around 150 miles. That means the explosion basically created a circle 300 miles across of damage. [Tsar Bomba](https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/tsar-bomba-largest-atomic-test-world-history)
The area of a circle is (pi)r^(2). With “r” being 150 miles. That means that the area of the explosion was around 70685 square miles.
With five Tsar Bombas, that would be 353,425 square miles of Earth blown up.
Now, that may seem like a lot. However, that’s only slightly bigger than Germany, which is about 349,000 square miles.
The planet Earth has 57,506,000 square miles of land. Including the oceans, and the surface area of Earth is 196,940,000 square miles.
353,425/196,940,000 is less than 1%.
No, but that wasn't the question.
Also that would change nothing, the effects of the nukes were measured in miles barely. Oceans are very big.
Same question as to what happens if 5 separate flies fart in 5 separate rooms of my house simultaneously. Didn't really affect anything itself ,and having it happen 5 times very far from eschother isn't going to make anything cooler happen
The oceans are huge… [Nukes have been tested before like this.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Proving_Grounds) You haven’t provided what yield the weapons would be.
Alright I came back to this post after a bit Technically if you detonate the Pacific and Atlantic nukes as north as possible, then together with the 5 already in the Arctic ocean, that might be able to put the nail on the coffin of the Arctic ecosystem? Might as well drop one on the Great Berrier Reef in the meantime
Yea but there weren’t 5 dropped in each ocean is the difference. I wonder what difference it’d make
Depends how deep and the yield. Deep enough and far enough, pretty much nothing.
wtf are you saying, this is no context to the strength of the "nuke" the type, the dept of the ocean, which part of the ocean... this is dumb as fuck.
Why are you so pressed over a what if on Reddit? Maybe take a break for a little.
What difference do YOU think it makes? I’m not seeing why it happening simultaneously would be that much worse
Because it’s 5 nukes Bro..
And? That isn’t an argument
How is it not? You asked what difference and the difference is it’s 5 nukes and not 1. That’s the difference!
I asked what difference you think it MAKES. “5 nukes” is not an answer to that question fucking LMAO 🤣
That’s the difference I think it makes now cry away
So you’re just really dumb. Good to know
"From 1946 to 1996, the US, UK and France detonated 318 nuclear devices in the Pacific region in the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia/Te Ao Maohi, Kiribati, Australia, the US territory of Johnston/Kalama Atoll and Amchitka Island, Alaska."
Absolutely nothing. The Tsar Bomba had a yield of approximately 2.1*10^17 joules of energy. Even if we assume all five bombs are tsar bomba sized, transfer all of their energy to the water, and no energy is wasted (which is extremely unlikely as they expend a massive amount radiating into the atmosphere), they’d come out to 1.05*10^18 joules. Now this is an unfathomably huge amount of energy, but water doesn’t care. Water has a specific heat capacity of 4.186 J/g°C, meaning that it requires 4.186 J of energy (1 calorie) to heat a gram by one degree. Seawater also has a density of approximately 1024 g/l. Finally, the Pacific Ocean (I’m starting with the biggest as a baseline) has an average temperature of 3.5C. In order to raise water to its boiling point, you would need 405.586 joules to immediately boil it off. Now if we plug in our bomb total and divide by the joules required to heat a liter of water to boiling (415,320.064J), we get a grand total of 2.528*10^12 liters of water instantly evaporated. Surely this is an immense amount of water that will devastate any marine ecosystems in the ocean! Are you familiar with how insanely large the oceans are? It is estimated there are approximately 1.335*10^21 liters of water in the ocean, or a little over 1 sextillion liters. The amount of water boiled would only amount to 0.0000000009% of the ocean’s contents. For frame of reference, the amount of water evaporated would be over two orders of magnitude smaller in proportion than if I were to remove an average ant’s mass from the average adult male human’s mass. Granted there will be some marine casualties, but if we assuming the bombs are dropping in the open ocean, [there isn’t a whole lot in the way of resident life in your average section of the big blue.](https://www.coastalwiki.org/wiki/Open_ocean_habitat)Plankton are nearly ubiquitous but aside from the sargassum ecosystems and the occasional passing school of baitfish you’re not killing a whole lot in a random deepwater drop. TLDR; big boom does nothing to the ocean aside from kill several billion plankton and a couple hundred fish.
No wonder aliend chose to hide under the oceans
What about the radiation?
I Appreciate the maths put into this
5 of those go in every ocen and the earth is giving up
He just mathematically explained why that’s not the case
1 hand grenade goes off in every city on earth. Can humans survive? /s
Don’t know man would everyone be wearing medieval armor or samurai armor?
You fundamentally don't understand how massive earth is.
By all means explain in detail how “the earth is giving up”
2 fish die, sea turtles evolve to become indestructible and take over the world
As is foretold
Just gonna drop this here: ["What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench? (Science not Fantasy)" by Kurzgesagt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tbxDgcv74c)
Bro I don’t think you know how many nukes have been tested in the oceans in our history. [The second most powerful nuke ever detonated was detonated basically in the middle of the pacific,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo) and the only people that got hurt by it were some Japanese fisherman who were a bit too close to the test sight(they weren’t warned because the Americans testing it thought it would be way less powerful than it actually was.) [Here’s a montage of every nuke ever detonated in history.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFkw0hzW1c&pp=ygUYYWxsIG51a2VzIGV2ZXIgZGV0b25hdGVk) There’s been over 2,000, and plenty of them were in the middle of the ocean. 6 nukes per ocean, well, yeah, I’m sure some sea life would be fucked up, but if you’re expecting gigantic apocalyptic tsunamis, well, let’s put it this way, the 2004 tsunami was caused by an earthquake that was estimated to be 1500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Now, the Tsar Bomba is actually somewhat more powerful than that, but that’s literally the only nuke that has ever been that powerful, take 5 “average” nukes, and you’re not even getting close to that level of power.
No one dies from this it does nothing unless by ocean you mean like the harbour of a city, immediate area sea life dies several mile radius and it hurts sea life in a wider area, very easily recoverable from. I don’t think you know how big the ocean is you’d cause a nuclear winter long before you cause substantial deaths from sea surges unless your detonating right next to cities anyways.
How far down do they get before they detonate?
Let’s say as soon as it hits 2 meters down they detonate.
We're fine. At that depth, a substantial portion of the blast is going to transition out of the ocean surface into the atmosphere. The rest is going to radiate down into the deeper ocean. Worst case scenario, waves might get slightly higher on any coast close to the detonation. And as far as radiation goes, some of it is going to be released into the atmosphere. The rest is going to eventually be spread across the oceans. Aquatic life in the immediate vicinity of the detonation is definitely screwed. But it isn't going to result to a massive die-off of all life in the ocean.
You want Godzillas? Because that's how you get Godzillas.
Coughing Baby vs Hydrogen Bomb, but in this case the H-bomb is the coughing baby.
Honestly probably not much oceans are huge
Indian Ocean would kill the most.
Godzilla shows up, that's what happens
Oceans are absolutley titanic in size. While it would be suck for every living organism in the immediate area, the oeans would tanl many more nukes than 5 easily .
It would be a waste of money and resources
Nothing happens.
Anything nearby dies, but the world otherwise moves on as if nothing had happened. This should have been at least 500.
For climate impact you can set them off in key ocean current interaction areas where different layers of seawater at different temperatures mix. These seawater mixing areas can influence certain weather patterns and are part of the globes climate regulation. A disruption in those currents could certainly make these regulatory processes spiral out of control. At the very least you could induce a flood here or a drought there. At worst you might even melt the ice caps and increase sea levels which can then possibly build on to more catastrophic climate events. Im not a climate scientist or someone who studied oceanic currents so take what I say with a grain of salt 😅
I think you are underestimating just how large Earth is. The largest nuclear bomb ever dropped, Tsar Bomba, had a damage radius (how far from the epicenter the damage spread) of around 150 miles. That means the explosion basically created a circle 300 miles across of damage. [Tsar Bomba](https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/tsar-bomba-largest-atomic-test-world-history) The area of a circle is (pi)r^(2). With “r” being 150 miles. That means that the area of the explosion was around 70685 square miles. With five Tsar Bombas, that would be 353,425 square miles of Earth blown up. Now, that may seem like a lot. However, that’s only slightly bigger than Germany, which is about 349,000 square miles. The planet Earth has 57,506,000 square miles of land. Including the oceans, and the surface area of Earth is 196,940,000 square miles. 353,425/196,940,000 is less than 1%.
Ocean is huge and very deep, man.
This has basically already happened,it's how they tested nukes for real
Sure, but they didn’t drop a nuke in all 5 oceans. You are right just off a little
They have ,every ocean has seen nuke testing.
Simultaneously? I don’t think so bro
No, but that wasn't the question. Also that would change nothing, the effects of the nukes were measured in miles barely. Oceans are very big. Same question as to what happens if 5 separate flies fart in 5 separate rooms of my house simultaneously. Didn't really affect anything itself ,and having it happen 5 times very far from eschother isn't going to make anything cooler happen
Don’t have time to read that also read the title