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- jaredvenezia, on 10/29/2007, -17/+584but i am le tired.
fine. have a nap.
THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!!! - UtopiaInTheSky, on 11/07/2007, -8/+269When I see one of those go off in my city, I will look at it and say "It's beautiful". Then, I will be incinerated a few seconds later.
- hatchetbearer, on 10/29/2007, -10/+146wallpapered
- martynda, on 10/15/2007, -23/+145Am I the only one deeply disturbed by this pic?
- CommTHOR, on 10/16/2007, -7/+103Nuclear explosion pictures have always been my guilty pleasure. So beautiful, yet so horrible. Do I digg this for being a wonderful picture, or bury it for being so evil?.... A conundrum for sure...
- ReinMasamuri, on 10/29/2007, -0/+96That's if your eyes haven't cauterized when you watch the initial flash :P
- Sabretou, on 10/24/2007, -3/+75Wow, nice graphics. When's this game coming out?
- ian937262, on 10/29/2007, -2/+74What a paradox...... :/
- SimonGray, on 10/21/2007, -2/+55ARGH MOTHERLAND!!!
- Etaoin, on 10/21/2007, -1/+53"I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."
J. Robert Oppenheimer, director, Manhattan Project
July 16, 1945: On the site of the first successful Trinity test - ejtttje, on 10/21/2007, -3/+47I'm moving to California so we can hang with Hawaii.
Alaska can come too. - VanBehlen, on 10/29/2007, -0/+38Set as desktop.
Anyone who thinks this isnt beautiful is just being silly i think. A lightning bolt is awesome to watch, unless it hits you. Hurricanes are breathtaking from orbit and terrible to live in. Valcanoes, hell even fire itself is destructive and yet very cool to look at (campfires anyone?)
Its all about context. In this setting its beautiful, if it were a city with 1,000,000 people instead of some paradise island it would be horrible.
Stop it with the "you wouldn't hug your children with nuclear arms" talk! :) - jaydoj, on 10/21/2007, -3/+40wow, that is a pretty sweet comment. ***** kangaroos
- cambob76, on 10/16/2007, -11/+46Nuclear weapons are so beautiful. Why shouldn't Iran have them?
- jsebrech, on 10/24/2007, -4/+37It's a terrible beauty, like the face of a siren before she devours your soul.
- telepwn, on 10/14/2007, -2/+34It's strange how seeing something as beautiful as this has made me fear nuclear weapons more than I ever have before.
- nogami, on 10/29/2007, -0/+32A friend's mother used to have a painting/photograph of that up on her wall... I thought it was kind of interesting, except that she always had Japanese homestay students... I always wondered what they thought of it...
- mikev, on 10/16/2007, -0/+31Dugg down for ebaumsworld.
http://www.endofworld.net/ - BassHead, on 10/24/2007, -0/+31Ask Bush,,, :-
- mrfreeziexp, on 10/14/2007, -19/+48Captain Obvious saves the day yet again!
- MonarchWastxD, on 10/14/2007, -1/+30Captain Sarcastic comes to Caption Obvious's aid!
- OakRidger, on 10/29/2007, -0/+27Just be glad you never had one go bad on you.
- Taikun, on 10/29/2007, -1/+27And all these years I thought Canopus had only made video cards...
- isaactwito, on 10/17/2007, -10/+36I like how nuclear weapons can be beautiful. I think we should start a contest "Beautiful but deadly". I want to start seeing images of beautiful smallpox, beautiful ebola, beautiful blackwater, beautiful quicksand, beautiful severe allergies. The list goes on people, now start the search.
- EuphopiaB, on 10/16/2007, -5/+27Your stuck on Earth. Pull humanity out of your ass and youll notice how amazing this really is. Nuclear reactions are a beautiful thing. Because of them, all life as we know it exists. The sun is a nuclear reactor, and you don't call it dark and evil even though it kills millions to billions more. OK, so it can level a city. It can also power a city for centuries to millenniums. Nuclear reactions are a force of nature, the same as the oceans, wind, and our sun. The latter three have killed many, many more in history yet you don't call them evil, so why are you singling out this fore of nature? Simply because humans can manipulate it it is no longer beautiful?
I can't stand when people judge everything based on how good it is for the procreation of humanity. I find it disgustingly simple and primitive to say "that can kill or hurt people, therefore it is evil and bad ect." If science can teach ONE thing to people, it should be that what is beautiful is not the ideas of having sex, making babies, and making more humans. The triumph of human though is our ability to see the universe in it's beauty as something beyond us and our humanity. Can it kill us? Sure. Can it cause horrible, horrible pain? Yup. But those things are just pain and death. Why fear death? Why fear pain? They are just nature impulses to not want those things, but logically they are products of our humanity, and I don't think that we should let our humanity tell us ( especially with something as amazing as this ) what is good and bad on the simple grounds of if it will allow us to ***** more and do our animal thing.
[/rant] - EuphopiaB, on 10/29/2007, -1/+21"My God, it's full of stars..."
- kilahri, on 10/14/2007, -0/+20can I add my ex?
- SarcasticPirate, on 10/29/2007, -1/+20I bet they never acted out though...
- OakRidger, on 10/16/2007, -4/+23For those wringing their hands and saying "Thank goodness we never fought World War III," it was already fought. It was fought on the battlefields of Korea and Vietnam, and a score of little brush-fire wars across the globe. It was fought in the skies by reconnaissance aircraft spying on the US and the Soviet Union. It was fought in Berlin at the Wall, in space with orbiting satellites, in all the major oceans, and in the markets across the globe. It was fought by soldiers that faced each other across a border but never fired a shot. It was fought by spies and CEOs, Presidents and Premiers, and every day John Smith's going to work. Nuclear weapons were involved, but never used. People died all the same. Civilians and military personnel alike were killed during the fifty year engagement, and it was ended through economics. Today, you're reaping the benefits, and the whirlwinds of that war.
- RealmDown, on 10/14/2007, -1/+20I think he has a future as a Fox News Producer.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/24/2007, -13/+31I'm pretty disturbed at it being called "beautiful" nuclear bombs are anything but beautiful. Scary is more like it.
- WallnutBoy, on 10/14/2007, -2/+18I was going to say C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!
- kuzotz, on 10/13/2007, -0/+16will dying in a nuclear strike hurt?
- kuzotz, on 10/29/2007, -0/+15bacteria will prevail.
- snapcase, on 10/13/2007, -0/+14Ever burn an ant with a magnifying glass? (or at least heard of it)
Focusing extremely bright light (flash) through a lens (your eye) equals burning. Now I'll admit I can't say with an absolute certainty as I'm currently WAY too lazy to go look it up, but I'd have to imagine a light that bright being focused by the lens of your eye would cause a bit of heat. - inactive, on 10/17/2007, -11/+24Why is everyone calling nuclear weapons evil? Nuclear weapons saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Without nuclear weapons, World War 3 would DEFINITELY have happened. You really think we wouldn't have gone to war to the Soviet Union and the other communist countries in the '50-'80s if we didn't have MAD? I dare say a good number of us wouldn't be here right now if not for nuclear weapons. Because our fathers and/or grandfathers would have been killed before having us. Or perhaps just not around to meet our mothers/grandmothers.
- dinostabOMG, on 10/21/2007, -7/+20looks like your ***** face
- hollowex, on 10/29/2007, -0/+12life wouldn't cease to exist.
- Asianwaste, on 10/14/2007, -3/+15Just think of it as really really cool fireworks
- Brassbud, on 10/14/2007, -0/+12Nuclear reactions are beautiful, just like many other dangerous things. Tigers, certain poisonous plants, supernovas, sun flares, women, to name a few. Its not a weapon if its not used as one, and I'm fairly sure no one died as a result of that test.
The very conventional fire bombings of Tokyo were just as destructive and probably less humane than the atom bombs were. Would it be better to do things like that? - m4ngo, on 10/29/2007, -1/+13Just don't over clock them...
- Fuze07, on 10/21/2007, -0/+12You killed it. He's referring to the "The End Of The World" animation
- Tiggums, on 10/13/2007, -0/+12I read a book by survivors of the Hiroshima Bomb, very interesting... A lot of people survived the blast, but were killed in the collapse of the building they were in... most of the survivors actually were in a doorway after the explosion, but I guess the hurt question depends on your location in comparison to the target of the blast... many of the carbon shadows in Hiroshima show people in normal activity, just a creepy shadow frozen in time....
- Firehed, on 10/13/2007, -1/+12That's probably the single most distasteful comment I've ever read on digg, including being tinyurl'd to goatse.
- sohosid, on 10/16/2007, -10/+21Wanker.
- BassHead, on 10/14/2007, -1/+12They took me to the battlefield
And I saw the mushroom cloud
I said 'I can see the colours
Even when my head is bowed'
They showed me the destruction
The slaughter a la carte
And isn't nature wonderful
But is this art?
[The Levellers - Is This Art?, 1993] - jamdogg, on 10/29/2007, -0/+11Life would go on. There's life at the bottom of the oceans and deep underground. Some plants and animals are immune to radiation. More would evolve to deal with it. Humans and many other animals could die out, but not all life.
- PARAPA, on 10/19/2007, -1/+11sudo make me a sandwich
Password:
make: *** No rule to make target `me'. Stop.
:( - mike81890, on 10/29/2007, -0/+10Mien Furer! I can VALK!
- Firehed, on 10/13/2007, -1/+10When mother nature starts testing her own nuclear capabilities...
No, I'm much more concerned about an idiot with a red button. -
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