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.
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.
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.
here's a sexy radioactive picture for all you plutonium perverts out there: http://www.etoilecarouge.com/Joomla/images/stories/Saison0607/mr%20burns.jpg
whoa, amazing image senor farren,
ReplyDeletewhat is it?
It's a nuclear detonation, bro. Photographed in a very early stage before the fireball rises and creates the mushroom cloud.
ReplyDelete"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
ReplyDeleteRobert Oppenheimer
It has a beauty though, a terrible beauty.
astonishingly beautiful.
ReplyDeletecould you please reveal the image source link?
ReplyDelete-- Deuterium + Tritium > Alpha + n ...
ReplyDeleteYes, and you'll be wanting a Beryllium sphere as well as I recall.
The image was sent by Valerie, and, oaf that I am, I forgot to mention that. Valerie writes...
ReplyDelete"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"
Thanks.
ReplyDeleteOnce 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.
I have seen similar nuke shots in color. If I find one, I'll post it. Although is this a kind of nuclear pornography?
ReplyDeletehey, you have your bondage, let me have my plutonium.
ReplyDeleteHey, Mark, it's my own guilt. I actually own a copy of the double VHS set of Beyond Trinity.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteIs it just me, or does it look like it'd taste good?
ReplyDelete13 phobia warning (see August 12th)
ReplyDelete15 then.
ReplyDeletehere's a sexy radioactive picture for all you plutonium perverts out there:
http://www.etoilecarouge.com/Joomla/images/stories/Saison0607/mr%20burns.jpg
sorry, bad link there.
ReplyDeleteit was actually a picture of mr Burns naked.