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Article #740Re: Nuclear Detonation Q's
From: John Harper
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 05:04
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 05:04
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In article <10122@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes: >All bombs mushroom to some extent. Only the size of nuclear explosions >makes them really interesting to look at. Volcanic eruptions can also give big mushroom clouds. The classic reference is Pliny's description of Vesuvius going off (and eventually burying Pompeii) He likened the cloud to a pine tree. Same shape - in that part of the world pine trees have long vertical trunks with a distinctly mushroom-head shaped region full of branches and pine-needles on top. John Harper Mathematics Dept. Victoria University Wellington New Zealand
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