>>7749688 (super \pb)
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There was a 6.3 from the nuke test itself. But the little earthquakes from those tunnels collapsing were in the 2 to 3 range. I did the math a while ago to work out how much total energy a Rod-from-God could have based on current heavy launchers and compared that to earthquake energies. It came out to about 2 terajoules. And that looked like around the right order or magnitude for the amount of energy the radiated away from that little quake. So it's plausible. But a 5.0 is 100 times larger. No way that's a RoG. It would have to be a nuke or (crazy thought…) an actual natural earthquake.
Sauce for magnitudes:
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2017/10/31/north-koreas-underground-nuclear-test-site-collapses-killing-200/
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So RfG is a thing, I'm not totally sold on it. Seems kinda hard to get that much shit up there without it being seen. Telephone poles are large. Large things require REALLLLLLLYYY large things to get up into space.
I'm of the opinion it's a particle accelerator. Just put up some (relatively) MASSIVE fucking capacitors (still WAY smaller than a telephone pole, way lighter than tungsten too), and it should be pretty simple? Assloads of solar in space, no worry of cloud cover. Build up enough charge, put some bad boys into a ring, get it to .7c and then blast the lil guy @ a spot, BOOM natural earthquake.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.5728.pdf
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The discussion here here seems to point to conclusion that cosmic rays play much more prominent
role that is currently believed; specifically: 1) cosmic ray intensity seems to correlate with seismic
activity on Earth much better than solar activity; 2) not only the solar activity regulates the flow
of cosmic rays, as is currently accepted, but also the cosmic rays influence the solar activity, which currently is somewhat of a heretic statement.
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What I don't know is the precise maths to figure out if it makes complete sense. My gut is that power-wise it fits, not sure about the size required for an accelerator ring, but maybe we don't need a ring? We just need one lil guy goin balls to the fuckin walls.
We know the depth at which the USGS says the quakes occurred. I don't know the math to figure out roughly where a particle of a given size and speed will cause the quake to happen.
Just my thoughts. Particle accelerator in space. Has the advantage of making the result look completely natural vs. RfG which would leave a hole? or something?