Are tectonic weapons feasible ?

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Nikola Tesla appearently caused the police to break into his lab in New York City to stop one of his experiments, when windows began breaking and bricks started falling off of buildings in the neighborhood, back in the 1890s.
He claimed, and it may have just been to call attention to his research, that given enough time he could crack the world in half!
IIRC, the device he was using at the time, was said to weigh less than a pound.

Sounds pretty farfetched doesn't it? But then, he was Tesla.

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He hit the resonant frequency of nearby buildings if I remember correct. And then he accidentally hit the resonant frequency of his own building and when he saw how the walls and everything started oscillating he freaked out and dismantled the machine before the cops got there. That's one of those stories about sounds that I wonder if it isn't embellished a little. But I did anecdotally read about something similar happening in San Diego by a nearby NSA run base. Where residents said they saw there garage door start moving like a helix and oscillating etc.. The explanation was the navy was experimenting with sound.
 
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I tend to feel that way about Al-Qaida and 9/11.

Spot the odd one out in the list below:

A) Guy fills car with petrol cans and explosives and leaves it conspicuously parked in a no-stopping zone, thereby attracting the attention of police, who promptly defuse the whole mess before any damage is done.

B) Guy armed with sophisticated explosive device accidentally sets fire to own trousers while attempting to blow up aircraft.

C) Guy armed with plastic knife successfully destroys World Trade Center.

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I tend to feel that way about Al-Qaida and 9/11.

Spot the odd one out in the list below:

A) Guy fills car with petrol cans and explosives and leaves it conspicuously parked in a no-stopping zone, thereby attracting the attention of police, who promptly defuse the whole mess before any damage is done.

B) Guy armed with sophisticated explosive device accidentally sets fire to own trousers while attempting to blow up aircraft.

C) Guy armed with plastic knife successfully destroys World Trade Center.

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nothing odd here.

in the usa,

we call this sort of thing 'action movies'.

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i just want to know if the drugs some of you are obviously smoking are legal, it was a simple question as to whether they were possible
No, & probably yes :D

Select your fault, one that's under high stress & hasn't popped for a while. A good deal of faults have subduction zones, as in one plate being forced under another rather than sliding side to side. Assuming you have a subduction fault you also have a rather deep trench where you can deposit one or more thermonuclear weapons. 20 megaton nukes are tiny (MIRV weapons tend to carry at least 6) so why not put a few 100 megaton nukes along the fault & blow them all at once.

This would be vastly more difficult with a fault that slides accross rather than subducts as you'd need to drill lots of holes & quite deep...

I'm sure it'd be possible, well that is depending on if the will was there ;)
 
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No, & probably yes :D

Select your fault, one that's under high stress & hasn't popped for a while. A good deal of faults have subduction zones, as in one plate being forced under another rather than sliding side to side. Assuming you have a subduction fault you also have a rather deep trench where you can deposit one or more thermonuclear weapons. 20 megaton nukes are tiny (MIRV weapons tend to carry at least 6) so why not put a few 100 megaton nukes along the fault & blow them all at once.

This would be vastly more difficult with a fault that slides accross rather than subducts as you'd need to drill lots of holes & quite deep...

I'm sure it'd be possible, well that is depending on if the will was there ;)

The weapons carried in MIRV warheads are 100 kiloton fusion devices. You are off by a factor of 1000.

John
 
The weapons carried in MIRV warheads are 100 kiloton fusion devices. You are off by a factor of 1000.

John
Ok John, out a bit :D Ok, make that a factor of about 200, not 1000 ;) Yes i know this beast is Russian, i bet the states have bigger ones as well though. By the way, we are now at a factor of 26.6 & that's the first thing i found.

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The R-36M (SS-18) is similar to the R-36 in design, but has the capacity to mount a single warhead of up to 20mt (megatons) of TNT in yield, or a MIRV payload of 10 warheads, each with a 550–750 kt (kiloton) yield.
 
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I thought earthquakes or strong tremors at least, "Could" be set off by a large collapse underground, like a huge gas field not being pumped full of saline and imploding, or one of those huge Chinese coal mines suddenly collapsing.

Certainly a tsunami would result if even a small nuclear explosion caused the collapse of the ocean wall of one of the large Hawaiian islands, that is one of the reasons for the Pacific Tsunami watch.
The last Hawaiian collapse apparently left 2000tonne boulders 200km inland at an elevation of over 500meters on Australia's East coast
 
The real question to the question is why? What would be the point? Chavez is just a sleazy opportunist cynically exploiting the vast suffering of a miserable little nation while the rest of the civilized world is trying to help reduce the suffering and start a recovery.

Wow we live on different planets, I can name countried that go to war under false pretense and claim they are helping to civilise the world. But we all know better right? Your tone is borderline offensive at times and thats why we dont get into politics right;)
 
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Wow we live on different planets, I can name countried that go to war under false pretense and claim they are helping to civilise the world. But we all know better right? Your tone is borderline offensive at times and thats why we dont get into politics right;)

Just because it is an offensive statement doesn't mean that Luke is wrong, but take 'miserable ' to mean unhappy and small in the literal sense of land area.
 
I thought earthquakes or strong tremors at least, "Could" be set off by a large collapse underground, like a huge gas field not being pumped full of saline and imploding, or one of those huge Chinese coal mines suddenly collapsing.

Certainly a tsunami would result if even a small nuclear explosion caused the collapse of the ocean wall of one of the large Hawaiian islands, that is one of the reasons for the Pacific Tsunami watch.
The last Hawaiian collapse apparently left 2000tonne boulders 200km inland at an elevation of over 500meters on Australia's East coast

Certainly is possible.

There was a devastating sunami between Sicily and Italy, in 1908, caused by underwater slides.

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You guys who live on the North Island of New Zealand had better watch out especially in the Bay of Plenty area.

I did a job a couple of years ago trying to image the fault which extents in a north-east direction from Cape Runaway.
It has not moved in over 30 years - nothing - complared with continual activity on the North island and further out to sea. In other words, it has stuck!

When it does go, the government expect the Bay of Plenty to vanish! A disaster worse than Napier in the '30s.


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