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From: szabo@sequent.com
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Mining El Dorado
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.173841.12905@sequent.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 17:38:41 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.144137.23456@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:

>	If there's some painfully obvious reason you used the delta Ek and 
>the .01 second values you did, take it as written I pound my head shapeless
>in contrition.

No, I was being pretty arbitrary.  The energy of the explosion is given
off over less than .01 seconds.   The actual sound shock wave propagation
takes on the order of 1 second.  The power output of a nuclear explosion 
might blast a cold metal asteroid into smitherenes.  That's what I get for 
brainstorming on the net.  :-)

For a more accurate analysis, we need to look at the actual results of
underground nuclear tests.


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