[extropy-chat] green glasslike glaze

[Dirk Bruere]

Gary Miller wrote:

> 
>How can people be collecting this stuff?
>
>Haven't we been told that the half-life for the radiation produced by atomic
>weapons is so long that it would leave the areas uninhabitable for thousands
>if not tens of thousands of years?
>
>Which leads me to another question I've had for ages.
>
>What is left after an underground nuclear blast?
>
>Is there a large under ground spherical glass or crystalline cavern created
>by all the heat and pressure.
>
>If so would some of the crystals formed be gemstones.
>
>Previously I had assumed that even if there were, they would be so
>radioactive for so long that excavating such a site would be useless because
>of the radioactivity.
>
>Is it possible that at the blast temperature and pressures created new
>crystal and/or materials not normally found in nature could be created?
>
>I realize this is a lot of questions but I find the whole topic pretty
>interesting.   
>
>Has anyone ever seen any good books devoted to this subject?
>
>Or has this whole area of exploration been kept off limits by government
>restriction to these sites?
> 
>  
>
Explode a nuke in a coal mine and harvest the diamonds!

-- 
Dirk

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