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    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    1 hour ago, Dragon01 said:

    Don't think F-1s could do that. You're way past nuclear weaponry (including the Tsar Bomba) at this point. 310 dB was what the Krakatoa eruption had achieved. That one blew up a large island, and it was still several orders of magnitude (remember, logarythmic) below 350 dB. For that one, you're probably looking at something like the Yellowstone Supervolcano. Or Aldeeran blowing up. It stops really being a sound at way below 300 dB. In fact, this is so huge that you can't even write about it without constantly resorting to emphasis. :) You might be better off submitting a What If to XKCD. 

    So I did the math. 25000000000000000 F-1 Engines are how many it takes to produce 350 dB of sound. That reduces to non-lethal (from the sound, as other ramifications of this would wipe out humanity) levels at 2000 miles away from the focal point. Assuming the focal point is Cape Canaveral, 465642559 (give or take a few million) people would die from SOUND ALONE. The other ramifications of this would be catastrophic to say the least. From here on there is no math, just speculation. The ocean in the affected area would likely form massive tsunamis, probably traveling towards Africa and Europe. Earthquakes would rattle the entire globe, killing millions and disrupting infrastructure, causing even more deaths. In summary, don't do this, as humanity would likely go extinct within a decade.

    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    3 hours ago, Dragon01 said:

    No it wouldn't. The decibel scale is logarythmic. 300dB is a ridiculous value, C-8 would be in the same ballpark as Saturn V, the difference would be a fraction of a decibel. 8 F-1s of the C-8 would put out about 1.6 times more power into the air than 5 F-1s of Saturn V, which at that point of the scale, is less than 1dB. I wouldn't expect other Nova variants to differ significantly as far as decibels go, one dB is a gigantic increase in sound intensity at that point of the scale.

    Now I wonder how many F1s would it take to actually reach 350 dB

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