What if you exploded a nuclear bomb at the bottom of the Marianas Trench?

mindful webworker - following the web's threads

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Thu 2013 Sep 19, 12:02am

Well, we started with
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=343505#c21179102
363 Great news for the Midwest:
http://tinyurl.com/kdm5mv7
Posted by: RS

Which article led us to Google-map Hawaii, showing that trail of hotspot residue.

Then we were talking about the Marianas Trench, caused by the subduction of the Pacific plate under the Asian plate, and how I read (IIRC) that everything along the edge of the trench could just fall in there any time.

Which led us to search for the classic xkcd "Lakes and Oceans." http://xkcd.com/1040/

But on the same search results page, we saw
What if you exploded a nuclear bomb (say, the Tsar Bomba) at the bottom of the Marianas Trench? http://what-if.xkcd.com/15/

Spoiler: not much... until you increase the explosion by several orders of mag-a-na-tood.

That's what I brought for alla you'n's today. Can I have this last chocolate chip cookie on the buffet?

Did that chocolate chip just move?

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