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Good Morning!!!
Seeing nuclear blasts makes me feel very ‘emo.’ Fortunately, while I am in healthy collaboration with my emotional life, not much else gives me that ‘emo’ reaction. Either way, I feel like there’s something very, very wrong with detonating nuclear weapons. By wrong I of course mean destructive. With the first ‘very’ I mean the destruction we know and can measure. With the other ‘very’ I’m talking about the destruction that we’re too ignorant to see or understand.
Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project became well known for quoting very significant passages from the Bhagavad-Gita after the successful test of the first atomic bomb. Like Lincoln at Gettysburg he solemnly proclaimed: “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one…” and “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
He only actually thought of those quotes. According to his brother, he actually said:
“It worked.”
But anyway, the point of this entire post was to rerun a few images that I posted here before. Taken by Harold Edgerton at a distance of 7 miles using a lens with a focal length of 10 feet and a shutter speed of 100 microseconds, here are the first microseconds of an atomic bomb blast:
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1 Comment
1. Phillybits replies at 27th April 2007, 6:27 pm :
I’ve seen these images before and in a way, they’re very beautiful, yet awkward and alien looking as well.
Of course, knowing what these images are capable of is not.
Thinking of nuclear devices, did you happen to see the nuclear explosions video I posted a few weeks ago? That was neat too.
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