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« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2012, 08:38:13 PM » |
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But if no one was there to hear it, did it make a sound? |
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2012, 09:23:03 PM » |
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2012, 09:45:39 PM » |
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2012, 11:31:03 PM » |
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Bet you got a good tan if you were laying on the beach when that happened....  Dave |
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2012, 05:10:38 AM » |
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I was reading about that particular test explosion not long ago. It was at
a Pacific atoll, don't remember which one... those are defunct naval ships
floating all around it... it helps to imagine how big that explosion was to
think about how that line on the right side of the mushroom stalk is, like,
a giant destroyer or something...
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2012, 10:01:56 AM » |
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Without actually researching i believe that might be the test at Eniwetok atoll. Someone will chime in with the correct answer. RIDE SAFE.
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2012, 10:26:53 AM » |
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Thats the Bikini Atoll, operation crossroad event Baker, as per Wiki.
Some day we'll be able to make better use of all that energy in a safe way, imagine.
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2012, 12:09:27 PM » |
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Yeah like sending it to the middle east
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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2012, 03:51:55 PM » |
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Yeah like sending it to the middle east
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2012, 04:02:18 PM » |
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Don't know much about thermo-nukes, but we rather expect that if one went off and you were that close to it when it did, you would likely not hear much. And whatever you did hear you would not hear for long.
We trudge on.
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2012, 04:09:55 PM » |
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What's really interesting about that particular blast is that it was not expected to be that big. They used a lithium element in the construction of the bomb that was thought to be inert and under normal circumstances it was. But in the presence of a nuclear reaction it shed an electron (or some such thing) and became a different type of lithium. One that just happened to also be fuel. I think the Russians made a similar mistake once.
And yeah that's a rather large ship being sucked up INTO the explosion.
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Boxer rebellion, the Holy Child. They all pay their rent.
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2012, 06:24:11 PM » |
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Best years of my life were spent in Strategic Air Command (and we never even used one). The amount of tritium added (like used in your night sights) is an H-bomb multiplier. Been down inside the LCF of the first operational missile silo built.
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2012, 07:02:56 PM » |
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Still making them better and life extension program for old ones. Been working for a subcontractor for DOE for 32 years.  |
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2012, 07:42:26 PM » |
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Still making them better and life extension program for old ones. Been working for a subcontractor for DOE for 32 years. Have you ever worked in Oak Ridge,Tennessee ( The serect city ) ? I live just outside of Oak Ridge. |
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« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2012, 09:16:51 PM » |
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Have visited with Metal Trades council at Oak Ridge. But I work in Kansas city at the old Bendix plant now operated by Honeywell. We make and out source 85% of the non nuclear components.
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« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2012, 11:39:10 PM » |
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big bright pretty lights.
i want to see the hole in the ground, the twisted metal afterwards, the destruction, whats left after the pretty lights all gone and the cloud blows rolls away. i want to see the ocean floor after that blast, whats been sunk, what is left. that's what i want to see....
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« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2012, 06:25:45 AM » |
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My Girlfriends Cousin CD works at Oak Ridge. I asked him once what he did there. He said "I could tell you but than I would have to kill you"..LOL...
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« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2012, 08:33:01 AM » |
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While in the Medical Corps in 1953, I saw the films of Hiroshima after the 20 kiloton blast. They were classified then and they weren't pretty. Thousands with peeling flesh and doomed to death by radiation. One pic that I always will remember is the outline on a concrete bridge of a person just below ground zero.. The intense light (radiation) from the blast vaporized him and protected the bridge before the heat and shock wave hit.
The Bikini blast was in the megaton range. Hard to contemplate.
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Still making them better and life extension program for old ones. Been working for a subcontractor for DOE for 32 years. Have you ever worked in Oak Ridge,Tennessee ( The serect city ) ? I live just outside of Oak Ridge. I lived in Oakridge for 6 years.Oakridge,Or  |
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