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A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945
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Tarvos Telesto
Blood Fanatics
#1 - 2012-12-19 18:32:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Tarvos Telesto
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear.

Most of those tests were underground and some in upper atmosphere.

'Shows how absolutely stupid the human race is"

Youtube user Milkman69ner

A Time-Lapse Map of Every known Nuclear Explosion

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Alara IonStorm
#2 - 2012-12-19 19:06:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
Worlds biggest pissing contest. USSR knew America had thousands of bombs, America knew USSR had thousands of bombs. One sets off 15 the other sets off 20 then 15 more and then, and then, and then. Billions down the drain to send a message everyone already knew and the only thing it changed is everyone's health. Sure test a few bombs see how they work, test the new model Hydrogen's sure, once you are clear how they work what is point.

Worlds biggest pissing contest and nothing to show for it. Well okay there is this pretty light show to show for it. Ugh
Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#3 - 2012-12-19 19:12:14 UTC
While it was the biggest pissing contest as you said, the Cold War was also a huge motivation to progress in science and technology. It got a man to the moon.

Lets not forget that.

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Alara IonStorm
#4 - 2012-12-19 19:23:24 UTC
Mizhir wrote:
While it was the biggest pissing contest as you said, the Cold War was also a huge motivation to progress in science and technology. It got a man to the moon.

Lets not forget that.

And?

What does that have to do with setting off the same bomb over and over again which advances nothing but mental pen1s size?

There is a difference between motivation and stupidity, warfare is motivation to build, once it is built jizzing radiation over the countryside... make that all the countrysides is stupidity.
Xtreem
Knockaround Guys Inc.
#5 - 2012-12-19 19:24:44 UTC
Humans and their will/desire to kill as many people as possible in one 'hit' will never cease to amaze me, i just hope my kids don't have to live with the mistakes of creating these stupid weapons.
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-12-19 19:27:51 UTC
Tarvos Telesto wrote:
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear.

Most of those tests were underground and some in upper atmosphere.

'Shows how absolutely stupid the human race is"

Youtube user Milkman69ner

A Time-Lapse Map of Every known Nuclear Explosion

Too slow. I quit watching after about 50 seconds.

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Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#7 - 2012-12-19 19:35:48 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Mizhir wrote:
While it was the biggest pissing contest as you said, the Cold War was also a huge motivation to progress in science and technology. It got a man to the moon.

Lets not forget that.

And?

What does that have to do with setting off the same bomb over and over again which advances nothing but mental pen1s size?

There is a difference between motivation and stupidity, warfare is motivation to build, once it is built jizzing radiation over the countryside... make that all the countrysides is stupidity.


I agree with you that the mass production of the bombs is nothing but waste. But what lead up to it wasn't only a bad thing.

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Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#8 - 2012-12-19 19:39:03 UTC
I've mentioned it before, but because of all these 'tests' everyone born since has Strontium-90 in their bones, and it's been linked to the rise in Leukemia. Aside from that, there was also Iodine-131 released, which has been linked to the rise of thyroid cancer. Both those types of cancer were extremely rare before the nuclear age.

Where things really get stupid, is nukes aren't even the kind of world enders you see in movies and on TV. The one dropped on Hiroshima only really damaged everything within a 1 mile radius, and they were wooden buildings. A nuke would have much less effect on a modern concrete and steel city. So there's not even any good reason to have them in the first place. You could use conventional explosives to do the same damage, and not have all the deadly radiation.

"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi
Alara IonStorm
#9 - 2012-12-19 19:56:10 UTC
Mizhir wrote:

I agree with you that the mass production of the bombs is nothing but waste. But what lead up to it wasn't only a bad thing.

Oh it isn't even the cost of the bombs itself. I understand their purpose, the World Wars were not the first of their kind. Humanity has been having wars to end wars for centuries they only scale up in size because of population, it can be argued that the nuke helped put a hold on that for the moment by raising the stakes.

The waste IMO comes from shooting them off for no reason, not just testing their effectiveness, 2000+ plus when wouldn't 20-30 be enough. Build them stick them in silo's and stop poisoning us is kinda the point. I hope this test ban thing holds.
Bane Necran wrote:

Where things really get stupid, is nukes aren't even the kind of world enders you see in movies and on TV. The one dropped on Hiroshima only really damaged everything within a 1 mile radius, and they were wooden buildings. A nuke would have much less effect on a modern concrete and steel city. So there's not even any good reason to have them in the first place. You could use conventional explosives to do the same damage, and not have all the deadly radiation.

I don't know much about this subject but from what I understand it is the dust cloud kicked up from a mass detonation that isn't preformed underground or however they do whatever it is that makes them call this safe.

I mean Fatman was 21KT and they've detonated something like 50MT. Isn't the whole Nuke Winter something they say would result from a mass det of those things on? I heard that there is a lot of controversy around the term nuclear winter and whether it would be real.
Bane Necran
Appono Astos
#10 - 2012-12-19 20:21:42 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
I don't know much about this subject but from what I understand it is the dust cloud kicked up from a mass detonation that isn't preformed underground or however they do whatever it is that makes them call this safe.

I mean Fatman was 21KT and they've detonated something like 50MT. Isn't the whole Nuke Winter something they say would result from a mass det of those things on? I heard that there is a lot of controversy around the term nuclear winter and whether it would be real.


They also detonated them underwater for awhile, which was a brilliant move. I don't believe there is any safe place, considering how long the radioactivity lasts. And i think the 'nuclear winter' scenario might have just been more cold war fear mongering. What's the most insidious about nuclear fallout is how completely invisible it is, and how cancer has a latency period of years after coming into contact with the cause. Everyone thinks because people aren't dropping dead suddenly in the streets it must be safe, but you could be exposed to a carcinogen and develop cancer as a result 10 or even 20 years later.

"In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness." ~Miyamoto Musashi
pussnheels
Viziam
#11 - 2012-12-20 09:48:07 UTC  |  Edited by: pussnheels
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Mizhir wrote:
While it was the biggest pissing contest as you said, the Cold War was also a huge motivation to progress in science and technology. It got a man to the moon.

Lets not forget that.

And?

What does that have to do with setting off the same bomb over and over again which advances nothing but mental pen1s size?

There is a difference between motivation and stupidity, warfare is motivation to build, once it is built jizzing radiation over the countryside... make that all the countrysides is stupidity.



because ... this man will explain you why

atleast he can explain it better than me

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Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#12 - 2012-12-20 13:23:59 UTC
Ah, who needs nuclear bombs or missiles when one can use a more or less portable nuclear rocket thrower?

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pussnheels
Viziam
#13 - 2012-12-20 13:53:01 UTC
sometimes i got this feeling that the world was a safer and better place when we knew who the great enemy was
goes for both sides tho

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Borascus
#14 - 2012-12-20 18:16:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Borascus
TL;DW - America test theirs, drop on Japan. Then try to call aliens in the pacific using a 1,2,3,4,5,6 method. Then they bomb the **** out of their own West Coast (wouldn't want to live there now). Russia try to ring the entirety of their Union States. British test on Australia exclusively, until an invite from the USA, at which point they bomb Aus/USA/Pacific. France get the bomb and play catchup excessively bombing North Africa, while UK says "wait guys, you know... this might not be ...." China says "Hello" followed by Pakistan and India saying "yea, this really works"


It's still a stupid bomb, and it does exactly what was intended - indicate futility and irreparable damage, If they found a way to safely detonate these devices in a safe compartment of a space project, they might have some use, until then it's solely: "yellow snow is toxic yellow snow, no kidding"


P.S. It's still shorter than the video
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#15 - 2012-12-21 02:12:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Akita T
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Worlds biggest pissing contest. [...] Billions down the drain to send a message everyone already knew [...]

Oh, come on, there's a better (and funnier) explanation for that...

"Dude, you like to blow stuff up ?"
"Hells yeah, man ! Got any nice fireworks ?"
"You wouldn't BELIEVE the awesome firecracker I have at work ! And it's sooooo freakin' huge too !"
"Uhh, is it... you know, umm, dangerous or anything ?"
"Naw, man, we got this wasteland and stuff, nothing for like as far as the eye can see... you can even feel the heat miles away !"
"Hey, can you light a cigarette with it from a distance ?"
"Huh, I never tried that... LET'S DO IT !!!"

Lighting a Cigarette with a Nuclear Bomb wrote:

Ted Taylor, a man whose balls probably need a little hand truck to carry them from place to place, once used a nuclear bomb to light a cigarette. And if you're thinking he just lit a match off of one or something (an act which would already qualify him as a badass in the minds of all but the most jaded of elite mercenary forces), that's not the case: He used a parabolic mirror to reflect and focus the radiation from a 14-kiloton nuclear explosion in the Nevada desert, THEN STUCK HIS FACE INTO IT AND LIT HIS CIGARETTE. One more time, for those of you who were just temporarily blinded halfway through the insanity of that last sentence: A man once harvested the energy from a nuclear explosion ... just to light his cigarette. He survived just fine, but there's no word on whether he gained smoke-based superpowers afterward, so we're forced to assume he did.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19085_the-6-most-ingenious-misuses-military-hardware_p2.html

LolTwistedLol

Also, they must of had gotten his name wrong (even if it's right), I like to believe it was TIM Taylor (because that would be totally in character). And ignore that small issue of inconsistent timelines.

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stoicfaux
#16 - 2012-12-21 03:28:31 UTC
/Looks up at the sun.

/Yawns.

Amateurs.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2012-12-21 03:57:11 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
/Looks up at the sun.

/Yawns.

Amateurs.



Damn you nature!

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Reiisha
#18 - 2012-12-21 11:11:10 UTC
Mizhir wrote:
While it was the biggest pissing contest as you said, the Cold War was also a huge motivation to progress in science and technology. It got a man to the moon.

Lets not forget that.


A good argument has been made that the rush to 'just put a man on the moon' has put actual space exploration behind over 20 years. Since there wasn't any concern about the longetivity of lunar exploration, no one ever bothered to actually look at whether it's a) sustainable or b) applicable to anything BUT the moon.

While the achievement in itself is commendable, the situation in which it happened and the consequences of the exclusively short term plans of it's execution mean that well...

Look at it this way. The moon project meant that although there were people walking on the moon in the 70's, over 40 years later we can't even get them into space anymore, let alone the moon or Mars. It was a project done in the mindset of the cold war, to show up the Russians, not to further the cause of mankind.

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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#19 - 2012-12-22 18:56:27 UTC
Nukes are just the latest adaptation ..

we started out with these.
Borascus
#20 - 2012-12-24 09:10:35 UTC
Borascus wrote:
America test theirs, drop on Japan. Then try to call aliens in the pacific using a 1,2,3,4,5,6 method.



This trailer shows what they expected - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKz7WnU83E
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