When I read this news this morning I thought it was like a Vespa style scooter. Was it really an electric scooter like this? That makes it even funnier.
Edit- I read the news before the footage was released, and saw this post before the posts with the footage. Lul. Also holy fuck that was a big explosion from such a tiny boi.
Hiroshima’s bomb was Little Boy, which contained 64 kg of uranium, which at 19.1 g/cm^3 would be about 3.3 liters, significantly larger than a cricket ball.
But Nagasaki’s Fat Man used about 6.2 kg of plutonium, which has roughly the same density as uranium, although the implosion mechanism to initiate the chain reaction compressed it to about half the volume. So that’s closer to a cricket ball.
But also to add even more nuance, the plutonium in Fat Man used a uranium tamper to reflect neutrons, and estimates are that about 30% of the explosion yield was due to fission of the uranium too. So it’s hard to really draw the line on what was or wasn’t the “explosive” in that bomb.
Head of Russia’s nuclear, biological, and chemical forces was killed by a bomb hidden in a nearby scooter
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ek388yxzo
Is the scooter OK?
Buff out
Minor cosmetic damage
I know what I’ve got, no lowballers…or else
Oh hey not bad not bad still clearly a scooter o7
Considering it was a bomb, it’s doing surprisingly well. The handlebars are missing and it’s warped in the picture I saw.
When I read this news this morning I thought it was like a Vespa style scooter. Was it really an electric scooter like this? That makes it even funnier.
Edit- I read the news before the footage was released, and saw this post before the posts with the footage. Lul. Also holy fuck that was a big explosion from such a tiny boi.
> that was a big explosion from such a tiny boi.
Remember, the nuclear material which was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was about the size of a cricket ball.
The explosion could have been a little bigger!
Hiroshima’s bomb was Little Boy, which contained 64 kg of uranium, which at 19.1 g/cm^3 would be about 3.3 liters, significantly larger than a cricket ball.
But Nagasaki’s Fat Man used about 6.2 kg of plutonium, which has roughly the same density as uranium, although the implosion mechanism to initiate the chain reaction compressed it to about half the volume. So that’s closer to a cricket ball.
But also to add even more nuance, the plutonium in Fat Man used a uranium tamper to reflect neutrons, and estimates are that about 30% of the explosion yield was due to fission of the uranium too. So it’s hard to really draw the line on what was or wasn’t the “explosive” in that bomb.
There was a bit more to the bomb than just nuclear material though.
And none of it came out charred but recognizable.
If the pictured scooter genuinely was the bomb, this is some Wile E. Coyote shit.
If you take the batteries out, there’s a decent amount of space inside one.
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Impressive improvisation.
Oh sweet, thanks