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- AlphaEta, on 10/12/2007, -4/+114Are we allowed to answer our own questions on digg?
- AlphaEta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+95Why yes... yes we are!
- rstarr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+81You sunk my battleship.
:( - atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -6/+81Poor fish.
- ghandi69, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58Settle down nottidread
Can't someone make a joke in this joint anymore?? I thought it was funny, and it really wasn't even very harmful.. or shouldn't have been. - atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+56Now I know why Nemo had a smaller fin.
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -8/+60My thumbs down avatar is better than yours.
- randovaro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40Just a warning. The actual video is fine, but the site features ads that are probably NSFW.
- Shenaniganz08, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41I found that to be amazing and scary at the same time :D
- acdcfanbill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36...and my destroyer, and my sub, and my aircraft carrier, and my cruiser...
...you bastards! - Godlesswanderer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Surf's up!!
- asif5th, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29Adblock =)
- hoppdawg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24doorknob
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+23Damn rednecks trying new fishing methods. :(
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Gotta love the ghetto countdown clock too. looks like it was made from some scrap metal. Something only it's engineer could love.
- evilregis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Yeah, what could possibly go wrong!
- signal15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20This is from the movie Trinity and Beyond. It's a documentary on the nuke programs of various countries up to the 1960's. It's quite interesting.
Here's an amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GFRI72/ref=pd_cp_d_title/103-1437479-9625445?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_r=1DTH9G1EZ6DWWGMW4D8S&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=252362301&pf_rd_i=B00000IML5 - sinnejma, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19NUKE THE WHALES!
- nottidredd, on 10/12/2007, -11/+26Wiki says there were 1100 tests. This one was called Operation Crossroads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads - Arturion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12IIRC, the ships were old, unmanned ones that they used to test the effects of the bombs on. I wouldn't like to be on one either.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"NUKE THE WHALES!"
Gotta nuke something... - Jennings, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Direct link to image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Crossroads_baker_explosion.jpg
- chrisp9446, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@ tenlow
I don't think underwater tests are allowed, but underground tests are. - phonepimpbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That's about like how I felt taking a dump after eating Taco Bell yesterday.
- snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Ummm... Not to be a prick about the specifics, but this was Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll... Not an underwater test, but a surface test on an island that was inhabited (until the time of the test) by a tribe of appx 200-250 people, who were told that they could go back to their homes after the test was over.
- iigloo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9This is madness.
- thecandyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6*****! did you see that water vapor turn into clouds?!
- oxdeltaxo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That thing just swallowed up around 10 WW2 destroyers!
- toppgun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6iigloo
THIS IS SPARTA! - KyotoWolf, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11Did anyone else read underwear nuke?
- nathanwalker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Water acts as a shield against lots of kinds of radiation. So, uh, yeah, nothing to worry about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_shield - snotrokit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6bad time to be a stowaway.
- snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oops... my bad... the first blast there was above ground (Able), the second one was, actually, strapped under a lander, making it an underwater blast (Baker).
I stand corrected. - ezheld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That explains the three eyed fish I had for dinner with Mr. Burns
- LightninJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's Crossroads Baker from June of '46. Able was a shot from a barge. Baker was suspended beneath a barge. They were both Mk. 3 "Fat Man" type plutonium implosion-insertion weapons, yield 20KT. And those aren't (all) destroyers. Among other ships are the carrier USS Saratoga, battleships USS Arkansas, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania and IJN Nagato, several cruisers including KGM Prinz Eugen and IJN Sakawa, and a bunch of destroyers, submarines, and auxiliaries. If you want to see some real damage caused by atoll testing, do a search for "Castle Bravo," a first-generation Teller-Ulam fusion design that exceeded its predicted yield by 250%. We'll just say there's an island or two no longer on the face of the planet.
- childprey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Somebody set up us the bomb.
- LightninJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The "boats" were unmanned There was livestock on board some ships as mentioned above. The Navy miscalculated that this test would show that a battle fleet could survive a nuclear attack. Oops. And yes, this is Crossroads Baker, not Trinity. The implosion ignition system was so radical and the testing had gone so poorly (hand-milling the explosive "lenses" of the implosion system to thousandth-inch tolerance was not easy) that it was decided to use the first available "pit" to test the system. The "Little Boy" gun-assembly system was a different situation. Achieving criticality was so certain that the only worry was that assembly (meaning insertion into criticality) be fast enough to assure "prompt critical" rather than premature ignition and a fizzle (essentially the weapon achieves partial criticality and blows itself apart before full assembly). This weapon was never tested before being dropped on Hiroshima. It was a conservative "sure thing" design that achieved a yield of only 8-16KT from 64 kilos of U-235, which in a more efficient design could yield 35KT. The U235 was 95% super-enriched uranium, far more highly enriched than that used later (84% or so). It was already obsolete by then and all effort went into plutonium implosion weapons rather than uranium gun-assembly weapons.
- kurtu5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Actually both underground and underwater tests are allowed by the 1963 limited nuclear test ban treaty. However there is one catch, these test must not vent.
So you can blow one up underground as long as the gases stay in the ground.
Same for water.
But how does one contains an underwater explosion? There is the bubble pulse. Blow one up deep enough and it will create a hot gas bubble. The pressure of the ocean will squeeze the bubble back after the reaction stops. The now hot squeezed bubble will expand cause its so ***** hot. And the cycle will repeat with the bubble expanding again. So you basicaly start with lets say a 100 meter bubble, then it gos to 60 meters, then expands to 90 meters, and is squeezed to 50, then expands to 80....
In short, one does not contain an underwater explosion, because the radioactive gases really are not contained. They dissolve in the ocean or vent on the surface. - TheGuruStud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If i recall, the ships survived, barely.
- Wargalas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4We can do better! Go America!
- nimrod245, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they also had shaved sheep greased up to avoid flash burns aboard if I remember correctly
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Aww, they didn't much the footage of the boats becoming overwhelmed. Here's an irritatingly calm guy explaining: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JvjmsU48TSc
And here's longer footage of setup and aftermath of Able and Baker... eg. boats were setup with test animals and such: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wzXefZoZ36M - thermocline, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3More fun facts from http://www.atomicforum.org/usa/operations/crossroads/crossroads.html:
"3,030 rats, 176 goats, 57 guinea pigs, 109 mice, and 146 pigs were also used exposed to the experiments. They were placed on 22 target ships, in positions normally occupied by ship personnel. Some of these animals were dressed in clothing of various type and covered in anti-flash lotions and creams for biomedical thermal radiation studies. The National Cancer Institute supplied white mice with predilections for or against cancer. They were exposed in order to determine whether the intense radiations would produce genetic changes. The mice were returned to the Institute immediately after Able shot to be bread and studies. For the Baker shot, only 200 white rats and 20 pigs were used on four target vessels. Animals used for the Able shot were not used in the Baker shot." - rdoger6424, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3damn capitalization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Test_Ban_Treaty is the link - tghd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't you ever compare Taco Bell and Mexican food again!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wouldn't mind seeing some nuke detonations in HD.
- AimlessAbyss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I just have a spam and ad filter on Firefox, so it doesn't affect me.
- LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thank God I rolled an Orc! (jk)
- mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Man... that sure scared the crap out of me. /no-sarcasm
- Willy99, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Poor fishies indeed. Had to go watch Duck and Die.
(a really funny re-mix of Duck and cover, updated for reality. )
http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=1047&format=movie22&theme=guide -
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