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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30So you want to go blind before you die?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22As Isaac Asimov once written:
- "So you humans test nuclear devices on the surface of your own planet?"
- "Yes."
- "Stupids..." - micro506, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19If you're interested by this kind of stuff, I highly recommend the documentary film 'Trinity and Beyond'. Very well produced.
- PojkePojke, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26If I had to die in a nuclear explosion, I'd like to at least be facing the view. It's morbidly beautiful.
- Nightfall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Simply amazing. Thats about all I can say after watching that video.
Personally, I would like to see all these weapons dismantled and never made again. Thats just wishful thinking though. - D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Somebody set us up the bomb!
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16It'd do more to your eyes than make you go blind...
And that video doesn't do that bomb justice. Its shockwave traveled around the earth three times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_bomb - cgoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5448816068117684403&q=Trinity+and+Beyond
Yes, very interesting indeed. - BigHeadOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Absolutely frightening.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11im pretty sure martians and the moon trolls would not appreciate nuclear testing on their grounds.
- surf314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I still don't quite understand why the cloud makes such a unique shape, and was that a town at the end of the video? Imagine looking out your window and seeing that. Even if you were far enough away to be completely safe a sight like that would probably give you nightmares for a while.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12People freak out because North Korea tested a missile, imagine if they were testing this one.
- jeremyczu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Americans decide what building to drop the bomb on (usually, not always) where the Russians decide what county to blow up. If someone does use a nuke, at least they could try to limit the damage. I prefer the American way.
- Abrican, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It makes that shape because it creates a vacuum when it explodes and sucks all the dust upward and them it mushrooms out.
- Gridl0ck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yeah, because this is a missile.
I built a rocket once. And I'm not even a signatory to the NPT! - Moshcrates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's like a train wreck almost. Fascinating to see but completely horrifying.
- tjlsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What is amazing is that the bomb had a 100 megaton capacity and they were afraid to use it. They only charged it with tritium to one half its rating.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6And yet we're the only country to USE one, and our economy is something to be envied.
May that be a lesson to the fact that there are no economic lessons to eb learned from this. -_- - TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's not the submitters claim, did you listen to the video? The commentator says it.
- levitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The quotation is actually, "Silly Asses." From the short story of the same name where Earth's name gets written in a galactic book of races that achieve nuclear power, but in an unprecedented move, their name gets stroked out when the Galactic Ruler (or something) learns that they tested it on their own planet. He accompanies the crossing out of the name with, "Silly asses."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3from wiki: "The device was scaled down from its original design of 100 megatons to minimize nuclear fallout."
Holy hell. It was supposed to be double the amount they actually went with. o_O - pervy_the_clown, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6ho-ly crap. that was awesome
- hplasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And apparently it was only running at 50% yield- It was designed as a 100MT device, but had the 3d stage replaced by lead.
It was the cleaneest bomb by far though...
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html - bruggerA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this is the kind of stuff that scares me. If North Korea had this we'd be screwed worse than a 5 year old boy at the neverland ranch.
- JoeyDeacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These things gave me nightmares when I was a kid and they still do today.
- garrettnb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3did anyone else laugh at the "safety not guaranteed" ?
- there, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@raid517
"since 10x 2 million does not 50 megatons make. So in reality the Tsar Bomb was more than 2.5x as powerful again as the total amount of munitions dropped in WWII."
Not that it really matters but I think you meant the Tsar Bomb was 25 times bigger than the combined firepower of WW2 (at least if we are going to use the 2 megaton number for WW2) - Kazrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The narration is straight up Monty Python style.
- upsilonh24, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3So much destruction... so little purpose.
- nodong, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3All your base are belong to us!
- fredrated, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"160 thousand tons of TNT per country per year."
Lets see, 160,000 x 2,000 = 320,000,000 (320 million) lbs of explosive per country per year. Sounds like a lot to me. - DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Here's the location: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=73.7%C2%B0+N+54.0%C2%B0+E&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=72.711903,65.126953&spn=11.343609,80.068359
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya_Zemlya - mikemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do artillery rounds count? Naval shells? Depth charges? Hand grenades? There's a lot more to explosives than bombs; or did you think soldiers threw pine cones at each other and screamed, "KABLOOIE!"?
- TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Added to my NetFlix queue, thanks!
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Not that it really matters but I think you meant the Tsar Bomb was 25 times bigger than the combined firepower of WW2 (at least if we are going to use the 2 megaton number for WW2)"
Ooops yeah... now why on earth did I put that decimal point there? Sorry... Typo... - haloevo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's absolutely increadible..
especially because something the size of a tank can destroy the earth, three times. - there, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"We won the Cold War by destroying their economy"
The US had little to do with it. Communism was 100% responsible for turning their economy into crap and repressing their people. Whether the US existed or not... this would have happened. Considering more of the world was communist than capitalist at the time of it's collapse I think it's safe to say that had the economics of communism worked... chances are the US would be communist now.
It would be more accurate to say the US outlasted them or survived them (since no war was fought for Russia to be "beat"). Basically Gorbachev didn't have the heart to continue repressive policies that kept the Soviet Union intact even though the people were much poorer. When that happened it imploded since communism can not exist without overwhelmning threat of force from the state. Had Stalin been in power I'm nearly certain the cold war would still be around.
If we pretend the US beat them...it suggests that perhaps communism could have worked if it wasn't for the "repression" of the US. - manatee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm amazed they were able to fly away in time
- thedonga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that was amazing. thanks for the link.
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think he means that he thinks nuclear weapons are a conspiracy and that they don't really exist. (Or something). In any case the most commonly quoted statistic is that over 2 million tons of bombs were dropped in WWII - which means that the statistic is indeed wrong - since 10x 2 million does not 50 megatons make. So in reality the Tsar Bomb was more than 2.5x as powerful again as the total amount of munitions dropped in WWII.
The problem with weapons on this scale is that the human mind just does not have the capacity to imagine anything this powerful - matman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Bloody idiots. Hope they were all sterilized.
- pickypg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@raid517
His point is clearly that he believes that the video may either be tampered with to look more impressive, or be completely fake--created using stitched together pieces of video from U.S. tests. In other words, build even greater propoganda out of something that was already made for propoganda purposes.
It would not be so unheard of for the Russian's to do this, but since the rest of the world recognized the Tsar Bomba as real, I kind of doubt that it was fake (though probably a bit exaggerated). - sdwilly22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Because the video claimed that the equivlent TNT was ten times the amount used in WWII so you divide by ten
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I knew it. I knew they existed! The kook squad finally shakes off the shame and comes out of the closet. The entire cold war was a fraud and nuclear weapons are fake! Bravo Sir, you have succeeded in taking the entire conspiracy mentality to a whole new level.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The Russians blew their money"
Anyone else remember that story about the billion dollar pen vs the pencil? - alex002, on 05/31/2008, -0/+0I did
- alex002, on 05/31/2008, -0/+0you got mixed up. while it was orignaly made for 100mt, they later decided to leave it at 50mt
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Highborn: You're way off.
North Korean test missle != Soviet nuke. Not even close. - pickypg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@masamunecyrus
It is fine that you do not get the point. The Russians blew their money. The US developed something that we felt the other countries were (and Japan was--Germany actually was not, but we thought they were; they felt that it was unlikely that they would finish it before the end of the war that they would have won or lost by the time they finished development, so they focused on nuclear power instead, and failed at it) before anyone else and used it to save hundreds of thousands of US lives. Post WW2, we developed bombs at a pace to stay with, or ahead of Russia and it worked. We won the Cold War by destroying their economy, which worked because we did what we could afford, and they did anything that came to mind ("Biggest bomb ever, and a custom plane JUST to carry it? Sweet!").
There's a good reason you saw the Russian's doing this and not the U.S., other than the fact that it was during a de facto non-testing period. - jeremyczu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Enter
Sure, the U.S. is the only country that has used a Nuke. We have to deal with the fact that we destroyed two Japanese cities. We CURRENTLY use accuracy for our targeting systems, not brute force. Our CURRENT system is more responsible, but still a terrible thing to use. To quote Spiderman "with great power comes great responsibility" If you want to debate about the 1950s, put your computer away and write a letter. -
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