Amazing Nuclear explosions photo collection

[CDailey]

Check this out...

http://amazingfiltered.blogspot.com/2007/04/nuclear-explosions-photo-collection.html

 

[ND4SPD]

Those are some of the most beautiful pictures I have seen. Beautiful to look at but so wrong at the same time.

 

[viperpilot]

Beautiful to look at but so wrong at the same time

i totally agree with you on that 👍

viper

 

[Turbo Lag]

Those are some of the most beautiful pictures I have seen. Beautiful to look at but so wrong at the same time.

Agreed for sure

 

[Pako]

I don't think cancer comes from our cell phones.....

.....great pics though.

 

[Boundary Layer]

Those are some of the most beautiful pictures I have seen. Beautiful to look at but so wrong at the same time.

Especially the 1st and 6th ones. I mean, large scale nuclear explosions are not a daily occurence (thankfully), but I thought those two pictures looked particularly alien and awesome - in the original sense of the word awesome.

 

[Solid Lifters]

I don't think cancer comes from our cell phones.....

.....great pics though.

Yeah, I think the 330+ (the USA alone) nuclear/atomic bomb detonations might have something to do with it.

These pics were taken from Trinity and Beyond which is a Discovery show in HD about.. well, take a guess.

Fantastic shots of nuclear explosions in that show. The last one they show was so dramatic and awesome, I wont spoil it for you. It's a must watch.

Here's the show now. Just imagine it in 1080i HD!

 

[Diablomonkey]

Awesome video Solid!

 

[Sage]

I don’t know why so many people think there’s an inherent “wrongness” in it – when I look at those explosions, I don’t see people dying, but rather I see raw power than we can harness for so many good uses. If it weren’t for all the fear-mongerers, we could mitigate so many of our energy concerns by using nuclear power. There’s such a beauty in the idea that a small, relatively simple reaction can create so much usable energy for hospitals and schools and computers and centrifuges and refrigerators…

 

[Perfect Balance]

And my flashlight!







Wait, no...








Nuclear batteries?

 

[Diablomonkey]

I don’t know why so many people think there’s an inherent “wrongness” in it – when I look at those explosions, I don’t see people dying, but rather I see raw power than we can harness for so many good uses. If it weren’t for all the fear-mongerers, we could mitigate so many of our energy concerns by using nuclear power. There’s such a beauty in the idea that a small, relatively simple reaction can create so much usable energy for hospitals and schools and computers and centrifuges and refrigerators…

I feel the same way. But crazy people who think that the stuff in Sci-Fi actually happen and think that if there is a nuclear power plant that then it will blow up. I think that if everyone could just use their head that nuclear power could be a safe source of energy, not that it isn't but when people hear "nuclear" they fear it. I am by no means an expert on this, but some people will ask "what will we do with the nuclear waste?" but isn't it possible to (and this is just a 17 year old kid thinking here) put it on a rocket and send it in to the sun? I think that the main problem with that is that people will think that something might happen and it would be shot around the sun and back to earth. So the biggest problem with nuclear energy is the "what if?" people and no matter what safety precautions are taken it will never be enough.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Those are some truly awesome shots.

put it on a rocket and send it in to the sun? I think that the main problem with that is that people will think that something might happen and it would be shot around the sun and back to earth.

And here's the opinion of a 16 yr old.

What happens if one, and just one, of thos rockets blows up before it leaves the atmosphere?

The shuttle has proved twice now that Space travel is by no means safe.

 

[DustDriver]

The big drawback of nuclear power is the waste. It takes a long time to break down, and the waste will pile up if nuclear plants will remain.
But as long as there isn't a good alternative they will remain.
Here in Belgium a lot of power comes from nuclear energy.
Everyone wants to change to 'green power', but no one wants windmills in their backyard.

And about nuclear weapons themselves, my opinion is that the underground testing causes the present earthquakes to be much more violent, because the power from the blast has to go somewhere.

 

[DQuaN]

Nothing on the Tsar Bomba?

 

[Sureboss]

The big drawback of nuclear power is the waste. It takes a long time to break down, and the waste will pile up if nuclear plants will remain.
But as long as there isn't a good alternative they will remain.
Here in Belgium a lot of power comes from nuclear energy.
Everyone wants to change to 'green power', but no one wants windmills in their backyard.

And about nuclear weapons themselves, my opinion is that the underground testing causes the present earthquakes to be much more violent, because the power from the blast has to go somewhere.

The tectonic plates are alot lower than where the underground testing would be done, the plates are like 50 miles underground.

 

[Jim Prower]

Man. It's like watching a Tornado. beautiful, but you have to respect it's deadly force.

As for Nuclear power...there's not enough fissionable material in a power plant to blow up a reactor like a bomb. However...if the water level's too low, you (in a good reactor, worst case scenario,) get a reaction that melts into the ground, possibly contaminating water supply, or (in Chernobyl,) a boiler explosion (like in old Steam locomotives) that spreads radioactive steam all over the place. Most of the time, though, an emergency can be easily stopped.

unless you're an idiot scientist trying to make something go terribly wrong...

 

[Touring Mars]

Look like they could be scans from the book '100 Suns' by Michael Light. If you get a chance to look at the book first-hand, it's certainly a beautiful book, but it's a bit of a strange thing to have lying about on your coffee table

 

[Jim Prower]

"'100 Suns' by Michael Light"

I'm sorry to wander off topic, but that's a bad pun just waiting to happen.

 

[Touring Mars]

With a book title which sounds like that, just be thankful that his surname isn't 'Jackson'

 

[exigeracer]

I don’t know why so many people think there’s an inherent “wrongness” in it – when I look at those explosions, I don’t see people dying, but rather I see raw power than we can harness for so many good uses. If it weren’t for all the fear-mongerers, we could mitigate so many of our energy concerns by using nuclear power. There’s such a beauty in the idea that a small, relatively simple reaction can create so much usable energy for hospitals and schools and computers and centrifuges and refrigerators…

I do belive it's the fact that most of those explosions have something to do with murdering the most amount of people in one second as possible.

 

[PLmatt91]

Beautiful to look at but so wrong at the same time.

👍

 

[Sage]

I do belive it's the fact that most of those explosions have something to do with murdering the most amount of people in one second as possible.

But why look at it that way? Why look at a newborn baby and say “Hey, he could grow up to be the next Hitler!” Why not look at that same baby and say “Hey, he could grow up to be next Norman Borlaug!”

 

[Law93]

hmmmm...lets see...

the way i see these....the mixed world of mushrooms....good and bad

 

[xAkirax2004]

EDIT: Nevermind.

 

[Vasco]

Those pictures are amazing and so surreal...

I am by no means an expert on this, but some people will ask "what will we do with the nuclear waste?" but isn't it possible to (and this is just a 17 year old kid thinking here) put it on a rocket and send it in to the sun? I think that the main problem with that is that people will think that something might happen and it would be shot around the sun and back to earth. So the biggest problem with nuclear energy is the "what if?" people and no matter what safety precautions are taken it will never be enough.

It would be a huge waste of money to send a rocket just so it could be burnt up (since it would need to exceed the Earth's gravitational field) - not to mention the extra mass that the waste would place on the rocket means that it would take many, many rockets to get rid of the waste.
The main problem behind support of nuclear energy in Australia is that people think that Chernobyl could easily happen again (there's a much lower percentage) and also there is a fear of terrorist attacks - and because of this, no one wants a reactor in their town.

 

[exigeracer]

But why look at it that way? Why look at a newborn baby and say “Hey, he could grow up to be the next Hitler!” Why not look at that same baby and say “Hey, he could grow up to be next Norman Borlaug!”

I understand what you are saying, but no babies are made to kill people.

All of those bombs are made to kill people.

(I do realise that not all of the pictures of of nuclear weaponry testing, but most are)

 

[Stevisiov]

I understand what you are saying, but no babies are made to kill people.

All of those bombs are made to kill people.

(I do realise that not all of the pictures of of nuclear weaponry testing, but most are)

I know what you mean, but not all bombs are meant to kill people e.g TNT, has use in mining, and now you may say that a hydrogen bomb is in a different league to TNT, but we have all seen that rubbish film called armagedon, where they use a Nuclear Bomb to blow up a meteorite and save the world:tup:

All jokes aside your right they have a rather nasty element to them, although they have rarely been used to kill anyone, the potential is rather unnerving. When I look at those awesome mushroom clouds I can't help wondering how many gamma-rays are getting thrown out and all the radio-active materials.

 

[Sureboss]

I would hope we never used a Nuke to blow up a meteorite, surely it'd leave the earth to be pelted by thousands of small bits of rock?

 

[Loon]

I would hope we never used a Nuke to blow up a meteorite, surely it'd leave the earth to be pelted by thousands of small bits of rock?

Maybe. Maybe the blast sends all the smaller chunks of rock away from Earth, and back into the solar system.

 

[Stevisiov]

I would hope we never used a Nuke to blow up a meteorite, surely it'd leave the earth to be pelted by thousands of small bits of rock?

Well the small bits would just burn up in the atmosphere, so it would lessen the level of damage caused to earth, that being said it is a totally unrealistic film, so I wouldn't take it to seriously