Looks nothing like a skull, more like the jellyfish of death,

That's kind of awesome.

they must have housed the camera in a refrigerator for it to survive.

texdent: Looks like a Metroid.

I'm not really seeing the skull, but it looks cool nonetheless.

/Nice fridge comment FROGSTOPMER

headcrab.

/gaben

Approves....

lewismarktwo: texdent: Looks like a Metroid.

FROGSTOMPER: That's kind of awesome.

they must have housed the camera in a refrigerator for it to survive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbJEhvBqVY

It's a schooner.

texdent: Looks like a Metroid.

That's what I thought too.

it's a streetlight

texdent: Looks like a Metroid.

Good god, you mean that it's not radiation that kills people from the atomic blast, but energy-sucking Metroids? And to boot, the USA created them, not Japan like we've always been told! O_o

59 years ago, we saw the wonderful power of our new toy.

albuquerquehalsey: FROGSTOMPER: That's kind of awesome.

they must have housed the camera in a refrigerator for it to survive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbJEhvBqVY

now that was even better

Looks like a cow's udder, to me.

/still...
//damn, science. You scary

but I don't see the "skull". I think the author was trying too hard to make it sinister.

Someone else mentioned it in comments to the author, who promptly flamed him for it...

Turbounicorn
Sat 10 Dec 2011 11:25 PM
2 Things:
1 - That looks nothing like a skull at all. I still don't believe you even though you tried to tell me twice.
2- wtf are the rings underneath the explosion?


Jesus Diaz @Turbounicorn
1 - You're blind and have very little imagination.
2 - Learn to read.
3 - Use Google.
Edited by Jesus Diaz at 12/10/11 11:29 PM

... seems a bit touchy about his concept and vision ...

/fark him... fark jesus in the ear

"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

Humans do some creepy shiat.

There are a number of images like this if you GIS 'rapatronic camera.'

Would've been really awesome if they could've set up even a handful of them synchronized to go off a hundred microseconds apart, effectively making a movie of the explosion before radiation and fluid decoupled. But given nothing but tubes, I admit I'm not even sure how I'd set such a thing up or if it would've even been possible depending on the jitter in the shutter firing...

Just gonna throw this out there:
a. Say somebody offered Russia a billion dollars to (On a tower)detonate a 20 MT weapon(8F675 Mod2) that was already removed from the top of a SS-18 and was just sitting in a warehouse..... Completely unannounced to the west... just for pure viewing pleasure.....and let Russia rattle the saber a bit.



b. Would the US respond in kind?(Democrat vs Republican in the White House)

erik-k: There are a number of images like this if you GIS 'rapatronic camera.'

Would've been really awesome if they could've set up even a handful of them synchronized to go off a hundred microseconds apart, effectively making a movie of the explosion before radiation and fluid decoupled. But given nothing but tubes, I admit I'm not even sure how I'd set such a thing up or if it would've even been possible depending on the jitter in the shutter firing...

\This

I would like to see the detonation of a modern 3 phase weapon with a nanosecond speed camera

Jesus Diaz @Turbounicorn
1 - You're blind and have very little imagination.
2 - Learn to read.
3 - Use Google.
Edited by Jesus Diaz at 12/10/11 11:29 PM

... seems a bit touchy about his concept and vision ...

/fark him... fark jesus in the ear

I hate it when I end up clicking a link that goes to this douchebag's writing. A couple years back, I pointed out that Jesus Diaz mixed up metric and imperial measurements in an article, and that he should do a better job at proof reading. He thanked me, corrected the mistake, then banninated by account.

I didn't give too much of a care about it, then last year, I discovered that my frozen account's email and basic posting password was part of Gizmodo's big account hacking (new window), and was plastered across the internet. I asked them nicely to permanently remove my account info, which they said they're sorry, but they can't.

Fark 'em in the ear is right.

/CSB

If you ever visit the atomic bombing museum at Hiroshima, part of the exhibit has a diorama in the middle of the room of the city before and after. It's a little 3D model kinda like a train layout sort of thing, but in tiny tiny scale, and it's what you'd expect, the "before" looks like a normal city, and the "after" is the usual thing, a very few concrete buildings half-survived and everything else burnt ruin.

But, creepily, in the "before" diorama the bomb is already shown, a few milliseconds out. So the town is a normal town, but hanging above the Aioi Bridge is a plastic red ball, where the hypocenter is happening.

Something about that always creeped me out, that instant, where the thing is happening already but the people on the ground have no idea, it's like the moment of no going back, frozen in time.

At home now I have a book "100 Suns" that's all pictures of nuclear tests, and it's got photos like this too, I only saw it WAY after that diorama but some of those tiny ball like photos, the same feeling is there, like TFA too.

Of course the the other crazy measurement of nuclear TESTS, in particular, is how many of the damn things were done. There's a nice animation illustrating it, surely there's a million versions on YouTube but one is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk

Fat-D: I would like to see the detonation of a modern 3 phase weapon with a nanosecond speed camera

Still yeah, ONE more, with a modern camera, done for the purpose... ya gotta admit the images could be sweet :)

LOL All of the comments are spliced with "This doesn't look like a skull" and "This user was banned by Jesus Diaz."

Trinity and Beyond (new window)

Worth watching if you have an hour and a half to kill and find this sort of thing interesting. I stumbled across it one night on the history channel or one of those and was unable to turn it off. Fascinating, terrifying stuff...

Watching Trinity and Beyond on Netflix right now so I..............

Fat-D: Just gonna throw this out there:
a. Say somebody offered Russia a billion dollars to (On a tower)detonate a 20 MT weapon(8F675 Mod2) that was already removed from the top of a SS-18 and was just sitting in a warehouse..... Completely unannounced to the west... just for pure viewing pleasure.....and let Russia rattle the saber a bit.



b. Would the US respond in kind?(Democrat vs Republican in the White House)

Russia and the U.S. have observed an informal nuclear test moratorium for almost two decades. They both state that they hope to ratify the comprehensive test ban treaty and outlaw nuclear testing altogether, so, yeah, a 20 MT viewing-test would be a bad idea.

A comprehensive test ban is a good idea because it prevents countries from further modernizing their nuclear arsenals (think China here), and prevents new nuclear powers (India, Pakistan, Iran mostly) from perfecting theirs. The CTBT (comprehensive test ban treaty) creates an additional bar for would-be nuclear powers and would be a powerful nonproliferation tool when it enters into force because it has a mechanism for allowing multilateral on-site inspections that currently does not exist in any treaty or agreement.

China currently is observing a unilateral moratorium, while India and Pakistan have made noise about joining the test ban if the other does and if the U.S. ratifies. Iran has made ambivalent noises.

LOL All of the comments are spliced with "This doesn't look like a skull" and "This user was banned by Jesus Diaz."

He's gone completely round the bend now... you can tell he doesn't play well with the critics, even the mild ones.

"Go find your own blog or newspaper to write on and I will not ban you if you accuse me of something that is not true. You don't walk into someone's house and take a shiat on the sofa."
Edited by Jesus Diaz at 12/11/11 12:44 AM

/take a breath and a big drink, Hemmingway
//it'll be OK

MrSteve007: Jesus Diaz @Turbounicorn
1 - You're blind and have very little imagination.
2 - Learn to read.
3 - Use Google.
Edited by Jesus Diaz at 12/10/11 11:29 PM

... seems a bit touchy about his concept and vision ...

/fark him... fark jesus in the ear

I hate it when I end up clicking a link that goes to this douchebag's writing. A couple years back, I pointed out that Jesus Diaz mixed up metric and imperial measurements in an article, and that he should do a better job at proof reading. He thanked me, corrected the mistake, then banninated by account.

I didn't give too much of a care about it, then last year, I discovered that my frozen account's email and basic posting password was part of Gizmodo's big account hacking (new window), and was plastered across the internet. I asked them nicely to permanently remove my account info, which they said they're sorry, but they can't.

Fark 'em in the ear is right.

/CSB

Something similar happened to me at Lifehacker by Whitson Gordon.

I pointed out something, he complained, I said fine, but you're still a douche, he told me he was thinking of banning me, and I told him to suit himself. So he banned me.

No loss, I gained some minutes back in my day.

Subby, you missed an opportunity.

Better headline:

"Jesus is being a douchebag again"

Or maybe:

Come and see Jesus wield his glorious banhammer.

It does look like the face of death; It's an atomic bomb going off.

It looks nothing like a skull.

That's a serious farking stretch, there. By that reasoning, the starship Enterprise



...looks like a horribly deformed skull. I suppose if you horribly deform anything enough to look like something else, then yes it does look that way.

So saying you don't see a skull is the same as calling the author a liar? Wow

It's an udder nightmare.

/Just shoot me

That looks nothing like a skull, hippie. Put down the bong.

texdent: Looks like a Metroid.

That.

Also, yes: "Jesus Diaz" is a whiny biatch who needs to learn to (a) write, and (b) not be such a whiny biatch.

I'm thinking he got chuffed because part of the whole 'concept' included in his vision was portrayed by this PS experiment he posted on the page:



sort of a 3 frame "Dummies" version of his concept for the piece...

then people started saying things like "skull? no so much. maybe a kohlrabi though" and his tortured little fragile artists' soul began to crack.

I'm thoroughly enjoying the show