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[bishoptl]

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/nuketest.html

Pretty powerful stuff.

 

[ManDudeChild]

Wow. That's almost surreal ... the amount of power, and everything rising off the ground like that.

 

[Blackace]

cries myself to sleep...


There are two things that scare me in life. Nukes and Earthquakes...

Now living in Japan... so getting use to Earthquakes... hope I never have to get use to nukes :lol

 

[Loki]

Holy crap! Amazing video. I wonder what depth they were detonated at? I'm guessing about 2 miles?

 

[Smiles and Cries]

scary stuff...

 

[silver]

Holy God.

 

[Malleymal]

WOW

 

[NLB2]

I like the music.

Americans Are Ok The Ones That You Talk To On The Internet Are Some Geek Who gets Bullied Every Day And Makes Himself Feel Better By Dissing Other Countrys. You Cant Dis Everyone In A Hole Country. Theres To Many People There Not All The Same. The Only Thing i Like About America Is American Football.
Comment #76743 Submitted by: PlazmaUK on 2/16/2005
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Who The Fuck Capitalizes Every Single Word They Write?

 

[teiresias]

See THIS is why the core is going to stop spinning!!

 

[Warm Machine]

Thanks for reminding me. last night I had a dream about nuclear war. First one in about 4 years. The special effects were awesome.

 

[fallout]

I like the music.

Who The Fuck Capitalizes Every Single Word They Write?

cOULD hAVE bEEN wORSE.

 

[AirBrian]

Wow.

Thanks for posting this.

 

[Zelda-Bitch]

=_(


It won't be long now until humanity comes to a screeching hault.

 

[Blackace]

=_(


It won't be long now until humanity comes to a screeching hault.

Well... this has been going on for a bit now... but I understand what you are saying...

 

[android]

Who knew there was so much power in a tiny thing like the atom. That's amazing.

 

[radioheadrule83]

If it does that much to the surface ....What kind of damage does it do to they earth below it?
Comment #71398 Submitted by: Calired67 on 2/10/2005

Good point.

The bickering over the anti-Americanism is funny. I'm not anti-American at all. I love the US. The US gave me GAF, and holidays with nice weather to look foreward to. Plus, I've never met an American in person who wasn't nice. All the exchange students where I am are awesome. But every now and then I read something which makes me understand why other people in this world are...

I love this country, stuff like this keeps me patriotic. Why the hell would anyone even try to f*** with US.
Comment #71506 Submitted by: B-rad on 2/10/2005

Nuclear bomb tests keep this idiot patriotic. Don't fuck with the US, it's invincible. Take that wider world!

Americas not the only country that tested nukes you closed minded f.u.c.k. But yeah, f.u.c.k. America for evolving and advancing. I hope youre not a jew too, that would be too typical.
Comment #71673 Submitted by: White Devil on 2/10/2005

What does f.u.c.k. stand for anyway? Anti-semite to boot. Moron.

YOU DONT LIKE AMERICA BECAUSE WE SAVED YOUR ASS FROM THE NAZIS AND THE JAPS. SO F-U-C-K OFF. LITTLE EURO COWARDS. THE BEST THING WE COULD HAVE DONE WAS TO NUKE YOU FAGS INSTEAD OF SENDING OUR TROOPS TO GET INVOLVED IN YOUR 2 WORLD WARS.
Comment #71677 Submitted by: SLOPDOG on 2/10/2005

Yeah, Wilson and Roosevelt had it totally fucking cock-eyed. We don't wanna stamp out the genocidal Nazi onslought -- what we actually wanna do is nuke some European fags! Genius!

Obviously some of you are cock sucking muslims. I.E idiots. This video was made in the 40s when the U.S military was documenting tests of the nuclear weapons they just created ( used on Hiroshima afterwards)Back then they didnt know the consequences of land radiation. You can call America what you want, but I suggest that you crawl back into the hole you came out of, and know where you stand before making a stupid post like "**** AMERICA".
Comment #71684 Submitted by: liquidwater on 2/10/2005

Cock sucking Muslims = idiots. :lol

AMERICAAAA FUCK YEAHHH!

 

[bud]

Where did they test it?

 

[Doom_Bringer]

impressive!

 

[Raven.]

That weapon was required once, to keep the world at large at relative peace, and allow for humanity to progress. Still, it bothers me, its existence annoys me to no end, that to resist such one would have to cease to be what one is now...

Well, at least it has served its purpose.

 

[android]

That weapon was required once, to keep the world at large at relative peace, and allow for humanity to progress. Still, it bothers me, its existence annoys me to no end, that to resist such one would have to cease to be what one is now...

Well, at least it has served its purpose.

I assume you mean the bombing of Japan of which there were two bombs dropped one on August the 6th 1942 and the second on August the 9th 1942. Interestingly the bigger bomb and more devastaing was dropped on Nagasaki, while Hiroshima is the more famous as the first.

 

[Ristamar]

Impressive. Most impressive.

And a bit scary.

 

[Mermandala]

I was pretty big into some atomic weaponries back in the day, when that shit was still underground. Since Russia fell out the game, scene ain't nothing but wackistan sell-outs.

 

[duderon]

Shit like that just ain't supposed to happen.

 

[Vinzer Deling]

I wonder what would happen if they dropped one on a hurricane..

 

[Raven.]

I assume you mean the bombing of Japan of which there were two bombs dropped one on August the 6th 1942 and the second on August the 9th 1942. Interestingly the bigger bomb and more devastaing was dropped on Nagasaki, while Hiroshima is the more famous as the first.

Not exactly, I refer to the MAD scenario that kept WWIII from taking place during the 20th century.

 

[DCX]

.....that is just not right....two nukes placed just right could potentially split the planet in half!! Christ almighty have pitty on our souls....

DCX

 

[demon]

Meh, this is nothing new.

 

[Kon Tiki]

TurdBurglar, you f***ing idiot. That was obviously made before 1996, dumb*ss.
Comment #77945 Submitted by: idiotboxs on 2/17/2005

I'll bite. I am a fucking idiot. What in the video makes it so obvious that it is made prior to 1996? Besides other ducumentation, just from viewing the video.

 

[NLB2]

This video was made in the 40s when the U.S military was documenting tests of the nuclear weapons they just created ( used on Hiroshima afterwards)

There was only one test before Hiroshima and it was detonated from the top of a tower. There were no underground tests before Hiroshima was destroyed.

I wonder what would happen if they dropped one on a hurricane..

I believe people have mentioned this as a way to dissipate a hurricane before it reaches land, however the environmental consequences of this would likely be much worse than of the hurricane.

I'll bite. I am a fucking idiot. What in the video makes it so obvious that it is made prior to 1996? Besides other ducumentation, just from viewing the video.

Underground nuclear tests were made illegal well before 1996 and a nuclear test like this isn't something you can just easily hide from other countries.

 

[android]

Not exactly, I refer to the MAD scenario that kept WWIII from taking place during the 20th century.

aaah thought that was what you might have meant.

 

[bud]

Where on earth did this happen?!

 

[Phoenix]

I was pretty big into some atomic weaponries back in the day, when that shit was still underground. Since Russia fell out the game, scene ain't nothing but wackistan sell-outs.

Russia fell out the game? Heh - really now.

 

[Phoenix]

I wonder what would happen if they dropped one on a hurricane..

While you may be joking, there was some discussion back in the day about using them to break up hurricanes

Subject: C5c) Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them ?

During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one should simply use nuclear weapons to try and destroy the storms. Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.

Now for a more rigorous scientific explanation of why this would not be an effective hurricane modification technique. The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required. A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.

If we think about mechanical energy, the energy at humanity's disposal is closer to the storm's, but the task of focusing even half of the energy on a spot in the middle of a remote ocean would still be formidable. Brute force interference with hurricanes doesn't seem promising.

In addition, an explosive, even a nuclear explosive, produces a shock wave, or pulse of high pressure, that propagates away from the site of the explosion somewhat faster than the speed of sound. Such an event doesn't raise the barometric pressure after the shock has passed because barometric pressure in the atmosphere reflects the weight of the air above the ground. For normal atmospheric pressure, there are about ten metric tons (1000 kilograms per ton) of air bearing down on each square meter of surface. In the strongest hurricanes there are nine. To change a Category 5 hurricane into a Category 2 hurricane you would have to add about a half ton of air for each square meter inside the eye, or a total of a bit more than half a billion (500,000,000) tons for a 20 km radius eye. It's difficult to envision a practical way of moving that much air around.

Attacking weak tropical waves or depressions before they have a chance to grow into hurricanes isn't promising either. About 80 of these disturbances form every year in the Atlantic basin, but only about 5 become hurricanes in a typical year. There is no way to tell in advance which ones will develop. If the energy released in a tropical disturbance were only 10% of that released in a hurricane, it's still a lot of power, so that the hurricane police would need to dim the whole world's lights many times a year.

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

Damn...

 

[Mermandala]

Russia fell out the game? Heh - really now.

Everytime I hear the word "underground" I get an image of white dudes talking about Hip-Hop. 88% of my posts are bad puns. sad puns. If nukes were rap - Russia was the best I could think of to fit the sell out portion of the equation. The truth of course, is that Russia still got mad bombz, they can't match the USA's dope production skills though.<-- this is a dumb joke about black budgets.

 

[-=DoAvl=-]

I've always imagined that Australia has some sorta secret weapon hidden somewhere (think gundam/teknoman etc..) that only the top level government officials know about around the world... hence we hardly get picked on...

but then again, who would wanna invade australia anyway... fucking boring as... i wanna go back to hk ...

 

[Phoenix]

I've always imagined that Australia has some sorta secret weapon hidden somewhere (think gundam/teknoman etc..) that only the top level government officials know about around the world... hence we hardly get picked on...

but then again, who would wanna invade australia anyway... fucking boring as... i wanna go back to hk ...

Any serious war in Asia is likely to spill into Australia. See WW2 for reference