tvashtarkatena Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 (edited) Google Earth "Eniwetok" and see how many bomb craters you can find. 10 megatons makes a lot bigger hole than 40 kilotons. Edited April 25, 2013 by tvashtarkatena Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted April 25, 2013 Author Posted April 25, 2013 Bikini Atoll also has a couple of holes in it. Quote
rob Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 I must be doing something wrong, I just see a bunch of clouds. Quote
rob Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 I can find the Ivy Mike crater, but only because I knew where to look. Must have been fun to watch in person! Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted April 25, 2013 Author Posted April 25, 2013 (edited) Eniwetok has 4 holes. 2 are adjoined. One's on land and caped with concrete. Ivy Mike's diameter is 20x the smaller ones, so you might have to zoom a bit. Stationed on Eniwetok during the tests. Yeah, that really must have sucked. TO DO: Snorkel Displace natives Fish Vaporize an island Surf BBQ Edited April 25, 2013 by tvashtarkatena Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted April 25, 2013 Author Posted April 25, 2013 (edited) These are weird: 1 ms after detonation photos The Ivy Mike fireball was about 5 km in diameter. The hole it left behind is 6200' wide. It was the first test of a hydrogen bomb. "Well THAT worked" Edited April 25, 2013 by tvashtarkatena Quote
ivan Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 damn shame that world war 3 thing didn't work out... Quote
denalidave Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 damn shame that world war 3 thing didn't work out... Keep the faith, there is still hope! Quote
Choada_Boy Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 Ivy Mike: YAWN! Castle Bravo was THE BOMB!! [video:youtube] Quote
rob Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 god damn there's something so beautiful about an atomic blast Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted April 26, 2013 Author Posted April 26, 2013 Meh. Ivy Mike produced way better photos. The French also snapped some nice stills of their tests. Quote
G-spotter Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 I looked at Chixulub and all I can see are topless sunbathers? Quote
Choada_Boy Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 What makes Castle Bravo interesting, for me, is that it ran away beyond their expectations. They had incorrectly measured the neutron cross section of Lithium-7, which led to the in situ creation of additional tritium and an increased neutron flux. BOOM!!! Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted April 26, 2013 Author Posted April 26, 2013 (edited) The crew of a Japanese fishing boat found Castle Bravo interesting as well. They wandered into the test area and got a very big, very nasty surprise. If you're going to die from a nuclear blast, being closer is arguably better. What's with the Rooskies? No good pics of Czar Bomba to share? The only ones I've seen suck. COME ON! Edited April 26, 2013 by tvashtarkatena Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted April 26, 2013 Author Posted April 26, 2013 A little visual perspective:Mushroom cloud comparisons - Trinity to Czar Bomba Czar Bomba fireball versus NYC Quote
ivan Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 they need to make a bomb out of unicorn shit - can you imagine? Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted April 26, 2013 Author Posted April 26, 2013 (edited) If you want to see some holy ground, Google Earth 'Sedan Crater NV'. It's midpoint on a line between Vegas and Tonopah, NV. You can walk to the bottom of the crater, too. Next road trip... HOLY HELL that valley is fucked up. Edited April 26, 2013 by tvashtarkatena Quote
rob Posted April 26, 2013 Posted April 26, 2013 (edited) If you want to see some holy ground, Google Earth 'Sedan Crater NV'. Visible from space! "Analysis in 1993 observed that the original perennial shrubs once living there had shown no recovery" lol Edited April 26, 2013 by rob Quote
Choada_Boy Posted April 27, 2013 Posted April 27, 2013 A little visual perspective:Mushroom cloud comparisons - Trinity to Czar Bomba Sigh...this is a bar graph of comparative yield, not the size of mushroom clouds. If that were the case, the Tsar Bomba mushroom cloud would have been 150,000,000 feet tall, according to Popular Science. Quote
tvashtarkatena Posted April 27, 2013 Author Posted April 27, 2013 Do you piss in every party's punch bowl? Actually, the big three fireball/mushroom clouds are about right RE: relative size to each other. The bomba went up 60 miles - kind of far. Quote
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