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 redshift13 rated 27 months ago -
Do you ever get in the mood for atomic bomb blasts? I sure do. I'm not so fond of the type that bursts over your sleepy town at 5am. But old military reels of these frightening clouds? Show me the way.
In one video, as the mushroom bulb becomes smoke and ash, a thin layer of fire ope...
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- Crazydog115 rated 14 months ago
- I think that "Island Blast" is a a hydrogen bomb if I'm not mistaken.
- redshift13 rated 27 months ago
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Do you ever get in the mood for atomic bomb blasts? I sure do. I'm not so fond of the type that bursts over your sleepy town at 5am. But old military reels of these frightening clouds? Show me the way.
In one video, as the mushroom bulb becomes smoke and ash, a thin layer of fire opens in the bulb just for a moment, like the slow blink of a sinister eye of the universe acknowledging our frightening partnership.
In another movie of a below-ground test, the surface of the earth heaves and flutters like the failing lungs of a giant elephant, or a vast tarp in a storm. Buildings and vehicles shift and bob as on water. The solid ground becomes fluid and fragile and particulate, the blast a proof that the solidity of our earthly home has been illusory up to this moment and that we can crack open it's skull if we're insane enough.
Having said that, I don't, however, approach these vids with a kind of Tom Clancy-ish awe, an uncritical genuflection to the technological brilliance of our criminally wasteful military-industrial complex or to U.S. supremacy in the grisly business of killing other human beings. I just like watchin' stuff go boom. I know, I'm such a boy.
- The-Josher rated 30 months ago
- I'm not really 'down' with the whole nuke use. But for the sake of entertainment, watching old explosions is really cool
- ComputerMan rated 38 months ago
- What is there not to like about explosions?
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