What REALLY Happens if You Nuke the Mariana Trench? - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to AngeloMotion
Credibility score: 84/100 — Highly Credible. This video is highly credible with well-supported claims.
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Most expect massive tsunamis, earthquakes from nuke in trench — Opinion (50/100)
Fair guess for laypeople — nukes + deep ocean = disaster movie vibes. But yeah, expectations gonna get subverted here.
Nuke effects off by orders of magnitude vs geological forces — Solid (85/100)
Spot on — Tsar Bomba's 50MT is ~0.0003% of typical tectonic energy. Love this scale check.
Nuke energy insignificant vs geological forces by millions-billions times — Verified (95/100)
Spot on — nukes pack a punch for us but Mother Nature yawns at them. Makes you rethink 'world-ending' bomb hype.
At 11km depth, nuke creates plasma bubble; water at 1100 atm changes behavior — Solid (85/100)
Nailed the extreme pressure physics — water turns into weird high-pressure states. Rare to hear nuclear engineers drop actual science like this.
Bubble size 10-100m max, not soccer fields; pressure limits, doesn't crush — Verified (92/100)
Love this correction — original vid way overhyped the bubble. 100m max is brutally realistic for 11km depth.
Bubble oscillates seconds after nanosecond reaction; seen in Cold War tests — Verified (98/100)
This is gold — captures the wild timescale difference. Nanoseconds to seconds is trippy nuclear reality.
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