Reply to: The NK Nuke that Wasn't - WTF?

[Mailman]

Whats really going on...

China is using it's proxy agent North Korea to divert world attention, knowing the US must respond, it is hoping to provoke the US into direct military action.

Uncle Sam has been responding long before them chingalines got their hands slapped by their lapdogs.

Perhaps though China is starting to wake up to the fact that the regime it has been propping up for the last 50 years is a liability?

The US cannot operate in more than 2 theatres of war at once,and that the current Iraqi & possibility of a future Iranian situation which may require a response will keep US forces occupied in the short term; all of which would leave China free to carry out it's long plan to seize Taiwan unopposed

Except for a pretty powerful Taiwanese presence that is...not to mention the lack of heavy lifting capability to get everything needed for an invasion a hundred odd miles off the coast.

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[Cowboy Bob]

Surely in terms of what you are measuring (the amplitude recorded on the seismograph), 3.0 is exactly one tenth of 4.0?

My bad, forgot that it uses log (base 10). Yes 3.0, is exactly 1/10th of 4.0.

[Lucifer Box]

No, 3.0 is exactly half of 4.0. And don't get me started on how the media misuse and confuse the terms Epicentre and Hypocentre.

(Bob in did a Seismology module during his degree mode...)

Surely in terms of what you are measuring (the amplitude recorded on the seismograph), 3.0 is exactly one tenth of 4.0?

[Cowboy Bob]

3.7 is about half the size of 4.0 on the Richter scale isn't it?

No, 3.0 is exactly half of 4.0. And don't get me started on how the media misuse and confuse the terms Epicentre and Hypocentre.

(Bob in did a Seismology module during his degree mode...)

[wobbegong]

I blame the whole issue on the journalist who first broke the story, the headline had a typo; it should've read "Unclear Test".

[The Master]

I am the brains behind the operation. Although these lizard persons have their uses, they're not the most motivated of species. Cold blooded, don't you know?

[wendigo100]

... and the Lizard people are slowly taking over the world

My wife and kids were down in The Lizard on holiday in August. I thought they came back looking a bit funny...

[Troll]

Whats really going on...

China is using it's proxy agent North Korea to divert world attention, knowing the US must respond, it is hoping to provoke the US into direct military action.

The US cannot operate in more than 2 theatres of war at once,and that the current Iraqi & possibility of a future Iranian situation which may require a response will keep US forces occupied in the short term; all of which would leave China free to carry out it's long plan to seize Taiwan unopposed

... and the Lizard people are slowly taking over the world

.you heard it here first!!

[malvolio]

I'm no expert but I seem to recall that there are two components needed to make a big bang in a nuclear bomb, and if the second one (Tritium?? It injects a stream of particles that catlyse the reaction. Or something) doesn't arrive at the precise moment you get a slow fission as opposed to a fast one. Still makes a damn big bang, but a lot less than what you were hoping for.

[The Master]

And there was a munitions ship that blew up with 5000 tons aboard, in Halifax, Nova Scotia during WWI or WWII.

I used to work with someone whose dad was there. Most impressive apparently. Still the world's largest non-nuclear explosion.

[The Master]

Just looked it up. Here are the TNT equivalents for various richter numbers

3.0 29 tons
3.5 73 tons
4.0 1,000 tons

[wendigo100]

Yes, it is a logarithmic scale.

3.7 is about half the size of 4.0 on the Richter scale isn't it?

[AtW]

Seems like their bomb failed, but they had backup in form of normal explosives.

Does not change one simple fact - North Korea is by far more dangerous than Iraq of 2003.

[The Master]

It was 3.7, not 4...which apparently is a huge difference.

Yes, it is a logarithmic scale.

[Mailman]

It was 3.7, not 4...which apparently is a huge difference.

But there seems to be something happening here. There are a few reports online that all it would take would be something in the region of 500 tons of explosives, and given the NKers have already pulled a stunt like this before its possible they have done it again

Then again, its possible they got it right too!

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