Tired Mountain Syndrome
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Tired Mountain Syndrome
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#2Wait; is the mountain releasing radioactivity from the bomb tests, or is the radioactivity coming from the rock and soil itself? The later is mmuch more interesting than the former.
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#3Wait; is the mountain releasing radioactivity from the bomb tests, or is the radioactivity coming from the rock and soil itself? The later is mmuch more interesting than the former.
And why "tired?" Is that a term for something other than what you feel at the end of a long day?
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#4Wait; is the mountain releasing radioactivity from the bomb tests, or is the radioactivity coming from the rock and soil itself? The later is mmuch more interesting than the former.
And why "tired?" Is that a term for something other than what you feel at the end of a long day?
Sounds like the rock is riddled through with fractures. Weakening the whole mountain
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#5Wait; is the mountain releasing radioactivity from the bomb tests, or is the radioactivity coming from the rock and soil itself? The later is mmuch more interesting than the former.
From one of the cited articles
> Chinese scientists already have warned that further nuclear tests could cause the mountain to collapse and release the radiation from the blast.
It sounds like it's "tired" in the sense that the mountain itself is exhausted from too many underground tests, and additional tests may collapse it risking test-originating radioactive fallout.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like the rock is riddled through with fractures. Weakening the whole mountain
Is there a difference between "tired" amd "stressed" in this context?
In other materials not much stress is needed once a material is tired. Happens to steel if it gets bent a lot.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like the rock is riddled through with fractures. Weakening the whole mountain
Is there a difference between "tired" amd "stressed" in this context?
Potentially. Stressed could mean something is being pushed to the limit, but not exhibiting performance degradation yet.
Where as tired could imply performance degradation is already happening.
Obviously this isn't that precise, but it's my personal interpretation.
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#9Does anybody have more details on what these underground nuclear test sites are like? It seems like the whole thing would just collapse after the first explosion, and be completely unobservable. And if it was observable, that seems like it would create problems too.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like the rock is riddled through with fractures. Weakening the whole mountain
Is there a difference between "tired" amd "stressed" in this context?
Stress is an engineering term that refers to internal force. It would not apply to this description.