Which hero on Earth can survie an A-Bomb explosion...
The A-Bomb facts :
Standing 0.5 km from where the A-Bomb hit the ground it still 440 m/s about 1600 km/h pushing power... It melts,burns everything in 3km circle....In 6km circle nearly all haouses demage
So which hero could possibly surivie an A-Bomb by staying alive and standing 1km from where the A-Bomb lands...Staying alive meaning half-dead and so, if he breeds it's ok, dying after 2 days in hospital is still surving it....
Shaman vs. Atomic Bomb Avengers #323-324-After the Avengers set off a nuclear bomb that Russian terrorists hijacked, all the heroes and Newfoundland are about to be killed. However, Shaman's quick thinking saves everyone by inverting his poutch sucking everyone and even the land into it. He was already getting exhausted transporting people from Newfoundland far away from the possible blast area and then performed this feat. He held the dimensions for over 2 hours, what a beast. Problem is he couldn't release them earlier due to they all became poisoned by the radiation so he couldn't bring them through. He probally could have cleanzed them himself, but at this point he was already exhausted due to teleporting people for hours to get away from the blast area. They eventually get cleanzed and Shaman saves the day. Now that's a badass feat.
That's why I wrote down the real power and date from atomic bomb, I don't think even Superman can survive that....And if we talk about another bomb such as Hydrogen Bomb the explosion power is much bigger...
This topic has been brought up before, wherein I posted the following. It's nice to see, for a change, people realizing what it takes to survive a nuclear weapon, instead of tossing around "and he can survive a nuke" like it's so much cotton candy.
One megaton yields over 4000 terajoules: more energy than the whole Earth will use for hundreds of years, at least. Seems to me, in order to survive a one megaton blast, one would have to counter 4000 terajoules with an equal amount of energy, at least.
Thusly...
- On a sunny day, the amount of sunlight per square centimeter yields 0.1345 joules every ten seconds.
- An adult male has about 1.8 square meters of total skin surface area.
- If Superman were totally naked, he could perhaps absorb about 2500 joules in ten seconds. He needs 1.6 trillion times this amount to counter the energy of a 1 megaton bomb (4000 trillion divided by 2500).
- 1.6 trillion x 10 seconds is about 500,000 years. This is how long Kal El has to sunbathe to absorb enough power to survive 1 (one) "typical" nuclear explosion.
To survive a 20-kiloton A-bomb (like the Fat Man, I believe; about 1/50th the power of a 1-megaton bomb), Superman (eg) would still have to absorb solar energy for about 10,000 years.
The other saving grace you mentioned in your scenario (the first being, you're postulating surviving a much smaller nuclear weapon), is adding distance from ground zero as a factor. This invokes the inverse-square-law effect. As such, because the Hiroshima Bomb was exploded at a height of what? 1000 feet? (more, I think), even directly beneath the blast, the energy has diminished to where the explosive force is equivalent to "only" about 40 pounds of TNT--still hefty to us mere mortals, but something far more manageable for a superhero.
Oh, I almost forgot, another factor to consider: even if you are standing right next to an explosion, since the blast radiates outward in a spherical wavefront, unless you are surrounding the bomb with your body, at least half the explosive energy radiates away from you.
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Last edited by Mindship on Mar 23rd, 2006 at 02:00 PM
Ture, but just let's talk about the olda one in Hiroshima or Nagasaki...Those real-time A-Bombs were pretty strong, and they developed the size (smaller) but more powerful. So nowdays an A-Bomb size of the old one dropped on Hiroshima well, Guess how strong it is.
I understand that the "typical" yield these days (picture one of those cone-shaped warheads that are perhaps 3 feet in length) is about 50 KT, about 3x the Hiroshima bomb. Real big bombs don't do proportionally as much damage; there's a kind of "diminishing returns" effect.
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But see that statistic about the joules Superman needs to produce to resist it doesn't take into account that he doesn't start at 0, and furthermore it is incorrect because it doesn't take into account that the energy to COUNTER it and the energy to SURVIVE it aren't the same. Don't tell me he has to resist it to live. No. He only has to survive it, meaning it has to do less damage to his body. As soon as Superman is hit, his body immedietly dulls the rest of the energy traveling from it.
Not only that, but he can also resist the heat, radiation, sound, and sonic boom. The blast itself would do very little to Superman.
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