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| Keywords: Comparisons of other mushroom clouds.jpg Uploaded with en wp UW marker 2012 07 07 This shows the comparisons of mushroom clouds of other explosives simialar to the Tsar Bomb the smallest being Bunker Bomb and largest being Tsar Bomb http //www julg7 com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/tsar_bomba jpg date http //julg7 com http //www julg7 com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ ;Other information This is another picture from the same people that the other pictures on this wiki about the Tsar Bomb is http //julg7 com Check categories 2015 December 28 Nuclear fission Misleading graph of nuclear bomb yields.jpg Uploaded with en wp UW marker 2012 07 07 Comparison of energy yield of nuclear bombs the smallest being Bunker Buster 0 1kT and the largest being Tsar Bomba 50MT Unfortunately this graph shows mushroom clouds scaled in height proportional to explosive yield Thus the area of each cloud is proportional to the square of the yield An actual mushroom cloud is 3-D so the volume of each cloud is proportional to the cube of the yield Worst of all actual destructive power only grows in proportion to the cube-root of the yield This is a highly misleading graph The ratio of the smallest to the largest yield is or 500 000 1 so the ratio of the areas of the clouds in the graph is 250 000 000 000 1 and the ratio of their implied volumes is 125 000 000 000 000 000 1 Meanwhile the ratio of the damage radii is only about 79 4 1 File Comparative nuclear fireball sizes svg looks much more reasonable showing the fireball radii as concentric circles Unfortunately this image got added to at least four articles It is currently on these four articles w Nuclear fission br Tsar Bomba it Arma nucleare and th การแบ่งแยกนิว คลียส and about to be removed This image is a priceless example of possibly the most misleading graph ever so I'm reluctant to tag it as a possible violation The uploader User Berserker123 only ever uploaded this one image to Commons on 2012-07-07 On Wikipedia Berserker123 only ever made one edit an attempt 9 minutes earlier to add an image to w Tsar Bomba which failed got the name wrong and was undone by the next edit and forgotten Berserker123 said the image was http //www julg7 com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/tsar_bomba jpg which matches A slightly smaller version in the same folder is http //www julg7 com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/tsar_bomba-660x407 jpg which is loaded by this blog page on the same web site http //www julg7 com/blog/2009/02/16/tsar-bomba-la-bombe-reine/ Tsar bomba la bombe reine It is a blog in French The folder name wp-content suggests content possibly intended for Wikipedia I found no sign that the file was ever added to the French Wikipedia article fr Tsar Bomba in 2009 The blog article does not say where the blogger got this image But whoever made this image embedded a readable credit within it The image was originally published in Popular Mechanics October 2002 page 69; Illustration by Paul DiMare The article can be viewed on Google Books but I can't post a link here because it uses some reserved characters Berserker123 said that the author of this image made it public domain But the given link returns forbidden It is obviously a folder name part of the URL though it could have previously served index html with a declaration The listed author or whoever they copied it from merely cropped a scan of a magazine page and was polite enough to credit it Thus the image is a derivative work so only the original publisher can give permission Way out 1 Maybe there is a fair-use rationale for hosting this image Way out 2 Someone could replace this image with a non-misleading graph of similar data if that is appropriate http //www julg7 com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/tsar_bomba jpg 2002-10 http //julg7 com http //www julg7 com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ ;Other information This is another picture from the same people that the other pictures in the w Tsar Bomba article http //julg7 com Check categories 2015 December 28 Misleading graphs Nuclear fission | ||||
