Monday, August 25, 2008



CRYPTIQUE -- Deuterium + Tritium > Alpha + n ...

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

whoa, amazing image senor farren,
what is it?

Mick said...

It's a nuclear detonation, bro. Photographed in a very early stage before the fireball rises and creates the mushroom cloud.

Leftcoastcat said...

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Robert Oppenheimer

It has a beauty though, a terrible beauty.

Anonymous said...

astonishingly beautiful.

Anonymous said...

could you please reveal the image source link?

Leftcoastcat said...

-- Deuterium + Tritium > Alpha + n ...

Yes, and you'll be wanting a Beryllium sphere as well as I recall.

Mick said...

The image was sent by Valerie, and, oaf that I am, I forgot to mention that. Valerie writes...

"Using a 10-foot lens from 7 miles away, photographer Harold Edgerton
captures an atom bomb an instant after detonation, at a test site in Nevada,
USA, c. 1952.

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/edgerton.html

Amazing guy

xxx"

Anonymous said...

Thanks.

Once I've seen this amazing movie called "Trinity and Beyond" that's made entirely out of recent found footage of all the nuclear tests performed by the US government in the 50s with a powerful classical musical score. Also weirdly fascinating and monumental.

Mick said...

I have seen similar nuke shots in color. If I find one, I'll post it. Although is this a kind of nuclear pornography?

Anonymous said...

hey, you have your bondage, let me have my plutonium.

Mick said...

Hey, Mark, it's my own guilt. I actually own a copy of the double VHS set of Beyond Trinity.

Your driver said...

I spent my entire childhood expecting to look towards the horizon and see a mushroom cloud or a squadron of flying saucers. Pictures of nuclear explosions are nostalgic, like episodes of Leave It To Beaver.

Benjamin Owens said...

Is it just me, or does it look like it'd taste good?

Mick said...

13 phobia warning (see August 12th)

Anonymous said...

15 then.

here's a sexy radioactive picture for all you plutonium perverts out there:
http://www.etoilecarouge.com/Joomla/images/stories/Saison0607/mr%20burns.jpg

Anonymous said...

sorry, bad link there.
it was actually a picture of mr Burns naked.