Talk:Alex Mercer vs Lucy/@comment-31961081-20180815174207/@comment-26036704-20180816011826

Even if he was closer he wasn’t point blank on it... which is required for thr full 8 megatons.

also somebody actually did a calc on it here it was

(note: I didn’t do it but i Don’t know who did.)

Radius of the explosion = 5.637km

Mercer was over the center of the bomb since he dropped it from the chopper, which has a top speed of 222mph.

At 5:01 he starts to take off from being over the bomb and flying back to NYC. The bomb catches him at 5:11, that's 10 seconds. 222mph = 99.2429m/s times 10 = 992.429m.

I = (8159621.44 Tons of TNT) / 4π((992.429m)^2) = 0.6593*0.68m^2 = 0.44 tons durability 8-C