Preserving film of nuke tests

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Schnellbandit

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nuclea...ermore-national-laboratory-film-preservation/

The last exchange:

""As majestic and fearsome as those photos appear, they don't come close?"

"Not even close to what you see in real life," Spriggs said.""

Anyone see a test? (not that you might be able to say).

There are a few documentary type films in HD, maybe the results of this work far exceeds any of those in terms of quality? The films out there are truly awesome to watch. They are almost mesmerizing but hide the power those weapons have to destroy. To think that some of this stuff you could pack around in the back of an SUV.
 
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littlebeast

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listened to a program on NPR the other day about a dude who worked for mistubishi. he was in hiroshima when the first bomb dropped. managed to make it make it out and back home - to nagasaki. got hit again there 3 days later. he got hit twice in 3 days by a nuclear bomb. one of only a handful of people to be in both events. dude said when he heard the second bomb, he thought the first blast had followed him home. dude got totally fucked over, but lived to 93.
 
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gixxerjeff

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littlebeast said:
listened to a program on NPR the other day about a dude who worked for mistubishi. he was in hiroshima when the first bomb dropped. managed to make it make it out and back home - to nagasaki. got hit again there 3 days later. he got hit twice in 3 days by a nuclear bomb. one of only a handful of people to be in both events. dude said when he heard the second bomb, he thought the first blast had followed him home. dude got totally fucked over, but lived to 93.
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Wow.
....just wow.
 
Climber

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Videos of nuclear blasts are fascinating and every blast is different.

I'm glad we'll be able to view these videos, a reminder of why we don't ever want to have a nuclear war.
 
afm199

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Fascinating subject and science. At the moment of complete fission ( maybe 82 neutron iterations) the pit is a glowing insanely hot ( couple hundred million degrees) ball of plasma no bigger than a soccer ball. That lasts for a few nanoseconds, then the atmosphere becomes a giant heat sink for the glowing ball of plasma. That's why the explosion/blast/and everything else that happens.
 
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Schnellbandit

I see 4 lights!
Fascinating in that the awesome imagery of such power can also end so much life instantly, or over a dreadfully long time depending on where you are.

Horribly beautiful, is there such a thing?
 
byke

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Nukes don't really do that much. People have hardly any impact. The Earth absorbs it without even noticing.
 
afm199

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byke said:
Nukes don't really do that much. People have hardly any impact. The Earth absorbs it without even noticing.
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Yeah, pretty much. In terms of killing people, they can be remarkably effective. One dropped on SF in the xxx kiloton range would probably kill hundreds of thousands.

If it missed and hit the ocean ten miles away, hundreds.
 
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littlebeast said:
listened to a program on NPR the other day about a dude who worked for mistubishi. he was in hiroshima when the first bomb dropped. managed to make it make it out and back home - to nagasaki. got hit again there 3 days later. he got hit twice in 3 days by a nuclear bomb. one of only a handful of people to be in both events. dude said when he heard the second bomb, he thought the first blast had followed him home. dude got totally fucked over, but lived to 93.
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Yeah, that was this weekend's rerun of Radiolab. Very memorable episode. It's incredible that every cell in his body was bombarded by gamma rays and he didn't get cancer and lived such a long life.
 
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Schnellbandit

I see 4 lights!
Junkie said:
I'd love to watch one from reasonably close, but understand that'll never happen.
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If I'm not mistaken there are some people working to make that happen.

Hint: It does not involve Microsoft's Hololens. Here's hoping they are incompetent and inept.
 
Blankpage

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Explosions of fire and bright light, who doesn't want to see that. Add in some car chases and you have everything you need for a Hollywood hit.
 
littlebeast

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renxianqiclone said:
Oh crap! I guess I wasn't listening that carefully. It happens when the kids in the backseat are driving me crazy.
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kids in the backseat are a challenge under the best of circumstances lol. you’re lucky if it’s only crazy you go, and not head long into a tree. :laughing
 
R3DS!X

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I really wish we could set off another nuke just to be able to get it shot in 3D 8k uhd.
 
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