Calculation

[Peppypony]

so there's a moment in one of my stories where a robot makes a laser beam. i made a sketch of the scene and the explosion was 8km wide (so the diametre) and crater was 25 metres deep. the explosion expands to it's full size and then disappears, all in 1.36 seconds. there's no rubble or anything left in the crater, so let's assume it's disintegration. no it's not nuclear. i know the page here would say small city level, but i'm imagining it leaving behind a 50 metre deep crater as it hit the ground must make a difference tho. it was in the desert (think the sahara or the mojave) so the ground would've been sand and maybe sandstone.

 

[Peppypony]

1. i forgot that nuclear would still apply even if it’s not actually a nuclear explosion because it’s a nuclear effect.
2. the crater, the bottom is the crater is flat, it’s 50 metres deep and therefore it’s edge are 50 metre high walls

 

[Peppypony]

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