Amazingly, not a question posed to Randall Monroe
What Would Happen If We Nuked the Bottom of the Ocean?
I really expected to end up here when I clicked on that link. But no. This headline takes you to a Popular Mechanics article, so this is apparently a real question.
… Well, sort of real.
What would happen if you detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon ever used at the deepest point on Earth? Would an enormous fireball consume the trench? Would the world crack open and would earthquakes and volcanoes tear the entire region apart? Would anyone even notice?
The YouTube channel Kurzgesagt decided to find out.
Oh, YouTube channel! That’s gotta be a great place to go to answer questions of this sort.
Also: the answer to this question — what would happen if you set off the most powerful nuke ever made at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean? — is not exactly surprising.
Click through if you would like to check it out.
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