What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench? (Science not Fantasy)

What would happen if we

detonated

humanity's most powerful

nuclear

bomb

at the deepest point in the ocean? Of course, a tsunami hundreds of meters high would destroy coastal cities, earthquakes would devastate countries, new volcanoes would give us a

nuclear

winter. Maybe the Earth would split in half? Or will it go out of orbit? Well, for a while. For now, the deepest point on Earth is in the Mariana Channel. The Mariana Channel is a very deep valley, right at the corner of two tectonic plates. that looks like an upside down mountain. It reaches a depth of approximately 11 kilometers.

Almost three times deeper than the dark tomb of the Titanic. It is one of the last places on Earth that humans can explore. The black star, subjected to a pressure a thousand times greater than that of our atmosphere, is a relatively pristine environment thanks to the absence of humans. An excellent place for a nuclear test. We will use the most powerful

bomb

that people have ever used and exploded, the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb or the Zar Bomb. Its explosion was so massive that its wave hit the Earth more than 3 times, and its "mushroom" cloud extended up to 56 kilometers into the sky.

Its wave was so strong that it destroyed everything in a radius of more than 1000 kilometers. fireball so hot that it burned the ruins. Bombs like these release so much energy suddenly that they can dry out an entire lake. And if we set off a bomb in the Mariana Channel, this is exactly

what

would happen. Let's shoot the trunk. In the first microseconds, the nuclear fuel will undergo a chain reaction and explode with the power of 50 megatons of explosives. A dazzling lightning bolt would illuminate the darkness of the Oer Canal for the first time. The heat from the explosion would produce a cavity, a burning bubble of steaming water, radioactive nuclei, and the remains of any unfortunate fish.

The bubble grows so fast that it evaporates the water around it. The pressure of the bubble is great, coming out from the outside as if there was nothing in the way. Releasing a wave that will be felt by seismic stations around the world. And then, as quickly as it explodes, it will stop. On the Earth's surface, this fireball would grow up to 10 kilometers per second after its explosion, while the atmosphere could barely withstand a "fight" to contain it. But the pressure at the end of the Mariana Channel is immense. With 11 kilometers of water above your head, being in the Mariana Channel is like being crushed by hydraulic pressure on all four sides.

Here, one second after the explosion, our bubble is about 1 kilometer long, when it suddenly begins to shrink. The bubble extends too far, losing pressure as the water pushes it back, repressurizing itself. The "fighting" force between the bubble and the water goes back and forth several times. the bubble contracts and expands, until finally the bubble disappears forever. The external pressure is so great that the water begins to break it. It becomes something like the equivalent of a mushroom cloud, to the point that it degenerates into smaller, radioactive bubbles that rise upward. And as our destructive bubble rises to the surface, it does absolutely nothing.

Just a small wave, a bubbling fountain of warm, radioactive water in the Pacific Ocean. Not even a tsunami would wipe out Japan or California, although ships and whales in the area could have a hard time. The radioactive waste will dissipate in the Pacific Ocean in a few days, although a significant amount of water and radioactive salt will be dragged into the atmosphere, where it will be collected and dumped again by rain. Even if the wind blows radioactive waste toward the Philippines, the worst has probably happened in the ocean. Of course, the danger comes from our eruption, which will cause volcanoes and earthquakes, right?

Even if we

detonated

the bomb right where the tiles are affected, it would most likely be that way. The explosion will vaporize part of the seafloor and turn much sand into glass, but most of the energy will go into the water, not into seismic waves. Currently, earthquakes are very frequent at the boundaries between tectonic plates. And earthquakes with as much seismic energy as our bombs occur several times a year, without causing any kind of apocalypse. But maybe it can have an effect on Earth's orbit. As long as not a single mass has been removed or added, our orbit will be completely intact.

Also, there have been thousands of nuclear tests in the last 70 years and they haven't changed our orbit, so why could this time be different? The greatest forces that man can unleash are ridiculous compared to the forces of nature. The planet is very big. No problem. So

what

happens if we detonate a nuclear bomb deep in the ocean? More or less nothing. Do you know that each bird in our video has a god? More than a thousand people have their own bird. It helps us explain things, there are clowns in the background or they have a merciless and avoidable death.

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