200GT as actual TNT

Acclamator · Post by **Acclamator** » 2002-12-10 04:18pm

What size would an actual quantity of TNT weighing 200 billion tons be?

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2002-12-10 04:23pm

Hmm have some explosives expirience from the army.

One stick of Sprängdeg (plastic explosive) is about 10cm 3cm in diameter and the weight is 125g.

Someone do the math please

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2002-12-10 04:29pm

Hmm no edit..

Here is a picture.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2002-12-10 04:44pm

Hmm found the exact data on that it's 165 x 27 x 27 mm

Memory was some off but not to bad.

Now for the math

200 000 000 000 Kilos of TNT
answer/0,125
1 600 000 000 000

That makes it 1 600 000 000 000 sticks of plastic

1 600 000 000 000
answer*0.165
264 000 000 000 mm

Or

264 000 000 meters

1 600 000 000 000
answer*0.027
43 200 000 000 mm

or 43 200 000 meters

So that is a box of
264 000 000*43 200 000*43 200 000 meters

Or i made some huge error somwhere

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-12-10 05:14pm

Wow. A town can probably live on top of that TNT-cube.

*Evil person walks toward dynamite cube with a match*

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2002-12-10 05:21pm

Shinova wrote:Wow. A town can probably live on top of that TNT-cube.

*Evil person walks toward dynamite cube with a match*

Sorry that's plastic

You can light it with a match. It buns qute good but don't explode.

Have tryed it burng tnt is great for starting a fire! Easy to light burns hot and safe to handle

You need a blasting cap to detonate TNT.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-12-10 05:30pm

*Evil person runs back, and comes back with an armful of blasting caps*

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-12-10 05:37pm

TNT and Plastic explosives require blasting caps. Both can be made to burn.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2002-12-10 05:38pm

Some more fun

Sprängdeg explodes with 7800m/s

264 000 000
answer/7800
~3846 seconds for it to explode

answer/60
~564 Minutes for it to explode

Or ~9h for it to explode lenghtwise

if started from one point...

Damn this is getting strange.

Good thing i'm somewhat drunk

Shadowhawk · Post by **Shadowhawk** » 2002-12-10 05:39pm

200 000 000 000 Kilos of TNT
answer/0,125
1 600 000 000 000

That's 200 billion kilos of TNT.
We want 200 billion tons of TNT (200 gigatons), or 200 trillion kilos.

You're only off by a factor of 1000.

MirrorUniverseSpy1 · Post by **MirrorUniverseSpy1** » 2002-12-11 04:51am

All those tons....that would be one heck of an explosion!

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-12-11 04:43pm

MirrorUniverseSpy1 wrote:All those tons....that would be one heck of an explosion!

But no greater than the explosion of a few-meter-wide TL bolt. Which weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks?

The DS blast was calculated at 1E38 joules, or 2.5E25 kilotons of TNT. How big of a cube would that be?

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-12-11 11:53pm

That much TNT is far too impractical to be detonated as a chemical explosive, the speed of detonation is too slow for it too be truly effective as a weapon.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-12-12 12:19am

Assume for the sake of the thread that they could all be detonated at once.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2002-12-12 12:20am

I think that's what Acclamator really meant in the first place.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2002-12-12 09:56am

IRG CommandoJoe wrote:Assume for the sake of the thread that they could all be detonated at once.

That's physically impossible.
But for the sake of the thread, fine....

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-12-15 04:41am

How much is the Halifax explosion rated at? I think something like a whole megaton, not sure.