Some interesting stuff here, funny how the first part of that one detonation looks a lot like Obama's chamagne poster.

There is a very good video of a detonation of a nuclear bomb, taken with a very high speed, slow motion camera.
I saw it one time and have never been able to find it again anywhere, I believe this is one of the only extreme slow motion shots taken.
It was really cool, because you could see bolt of lightning shooting off it, was very interesting to see.
Does any on know hwere to find this video?

Another thing someone spoke of how foolish the people were detonating these nukes, well I would say they were complete morons.
Now if you watch on TV they speak of the horrors of someone exploding a dirty bomb. Well Trinity was one of the dirtiest bombs ever exploded, for all the brains, it took them long enough to say no more above ground nuclear testing.
I don't know what the half life of plutonium is, but I know that crap is blowing in the wind all over the place and the government will continue to say lies and blame everything else for the posion they have strune about.


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Question.
How many atomic bomb tests were launched from an aircraft?
How many from an ICBM that had land targets?
No atmospheric tests, they don't count.

All I can say is WOW the movie you posted was much more then just disturbing.. I now physically feel ill.

I am wondering if was a good thing to watch before going to bed.

I thought of the movie "The Day After" I was in my very early 20's when I first saw it, I feel the same way now just 26 years later watching "Threads" nothing has changed, being very emotionally disturbed from a movie sucks.

Something frightening to think about being only two minutes away from midnight. O well..... 'Oblidee, Obbladah life goes on' ....or does it?

Wheres my blanky.

This is slightly off topic but back in the 50's the US actually conducted a nuclear test with a high altitude air burst while two scientists were ordered to stand directly under the explosion! They weren't hurt because the explosion was high enough but you have to wonder about the attitude of the US Air Force that they would order someone to do that 'just to see what happens'.

"They" say that nuclear explosions create rips in the fabric of space. Curious people "they"

You can almost see it in the pic. It feels like a zoom into an atom and the energy of the unknown is almost palpable. The view makes the man made objects seem like an old clay-mation film.

eerie.... but hauntingly beautiful

b

Originally posted by Bspiracy
"They" say that nuclear explosions create rips in the fabric of space. Curious people "they"

You can almost see it in the pic. It feels like a zoom into an atom and the energy of the unknown is almost palpable. The view makes the man made objects seem like an old clay-mation film.

eerie.... but hauntingly beautiful

b

If this is true, then all the stars are currently riping the heck out of fabric of space, right this second.
Maybe space is made of kevlar space fabric.

Originally posted by googolplex

Originally posted by Bspiracy
"They" say that nuclear explosions create rips in the fabric of space. Curious people "they"

You can almost see it in the pic. It feels like a zoom into an atom and the energy of the unknown is almost palpable. The view makes the man made objects seem like an old clay-mation film.

eerie.... but hauntingly beautiful

b

If this is true, then all the stars are currently riping the heck out of fabric of space, right this second.
Maybe space is made of kevlar space fabric.

Who is to say stars are not. Are there not immense electromagnetic and gravitational fields.

I have a question -- why are we worried about other countries obtaining nuclear weapons when we've nuked ourselves over 100 times?

So looks like underground testing and above ground from a tower.
Also lighting or some ground to high altitude streamers are generated.
No altitude test included.
The risk live atomic bomb delivery from bomber or ICBM seems
to high to deal with without a wartime importance.
Sounds like tptb took advantage of a waring atmosphere of the
world to develop the atomic weapon.
And had the airborne delivery an up most importance.

Originally posted by GoldenFleece
I have a question -- why are we worried about other countries obtaining nuclear weapons when we've nuked ourselves over 100 times?

When we nuked ourself we didn't do it in or above a major city. Luckily!

Originally posted by Doc Lithium

Originally posted by VonDoomen
I wonder what causes the "tunnels" within the explosion. You would assume that such a force like that would spread out evenly fairly evenly.

The downward directed "tunnels" are, to my understanding, caused by the vaporized support cables that keep the tower upright. What you see there is a few ionized clouds of steel.

The hollow spaces within the main cloud are probably caused by the uneven structure of the bomb, which makes some parts of the explosion wave front be slightly delayed. And of course the timing of the photograph was just right for them to be visible for a tiny fraction of a second.

I find these photos very interesting to a scientist's eye, very scary to the other eye that belongs to a mortal, if you don't mind the expression.
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Indeed.
The spaces are due to uneven propagation from each individual fission reaction overlapping. Some fission before others. Not to mention the human end of it, where the design of the shell is likely stronger in some points and weaker in others.
Then there's the fact that there is material within' the immediate vicinity of the blast, which probably melt right away in to a molten liquid and are then propelled to the ground by the shock wave.

It's strange. All it is is atoms ripping apart chaotically, but even then it creates something so... beautiful.