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I haven't seen too many nuclear explosion photos in this size, with this detail. Quite an amazing pic really, and there are a few more here.
This is the fourth and last picture of a series of the Canopus thermonuclear test in French Polynesia. This is a scan of a (digitally restored) hardcopy of a picture taken by the French army which could be purchased in Tahiti at that time.
This one's better, methinks. They're all good, though!
Those are pretty scary pictures. They don't seem like they could possibly be real. They look like something computer generated in the movies. Its surreal how much deadly power those explosions posess
Wow,
I've seen a lot of videos about weapons of mass destruction and even a video on the Manhattan project that showed videos of the Trinity test and it's just amazing how beautiful the explosions look but so terrifying to think how much power is just destroying the target
Well that's not wonder so many people freaked out about nuclear power after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm quite sure you wouldn't want this to fall in your garden 
These are beautiful pictures, yet I must say that what is pictured isn't that beautiful at all. The only potentially positive thing I have ever heard about nuclear weapon was an idea to create an atmosphere on mars by dropping several nukes there, and the waiting for radioactivity to dissipate. But I doubt this has some serious scientific background. What do you think?
| Soltair wrote: | Well that's not wonder so many people freaked out about nuclear power after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm quite sure you wouldn't want this to fall in your garden
These are beautiful pictures, yet I must say that what is pictured isn't that beautiful at all. The only potentially positive thing I have ever heard about nuclear weapon was an idea to create an atmosphere on mars by dropping several nukes there, and the waiting for radioactivity to dissipate. But I doubt this has some serious scientific background. What do you think? |
A bit of an aside:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
And to those who say terraforming is still hypothetical:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
These are awesome pictures. How something so deadly makes such awesome pictures.
| Sharpe wrote: | | These are awesome pictures. How something so deadly makes such awesome pictures. |
A big whole lot of deadly things make or could make awesome pictures. Volcanoes, tornadoes, lightning bolts, tidal waves, hurricane seen from above, fire (I think it looks quite good )... Of course this list is far from being exhaustive. But of course you can make a good picture from a large number of various things. 
Nice picture..but it was not edited perfectly. you can actually spot discontinuities. especially, the shape of the clouds. furthermore, odd shapes and color are visible. conclusion, this is a fake picture of a nuclear explosion. but nice work though.
Those look photoshopped.
Wikipedia references aren't credible. Just about anyone could go in and edit the info.
If those are real that's incredible devastation, now if only we could channel all that energy into something positive and constructive! Like making teddy bears or something! j/k
| cornga56 wrote: | | If those are real that's incredible devastation, now if only we could channel all that energy into something positive and constructive! Like making teddy bears or something! j/k |
Well, the same physics is to be used here:: http://www.physorg.com/news10081.html
in the construction of controlled fusion reactors. I'm hoping to persuade a certain Mr Gates to buy/acquire a few for my space-bike that, hopefully will be built before eta Carinae goes pop, again. ed. 
[quote="Gagnar The Unruly"]
Touche!
The second picture is awesome. A true testimony to our dominance of nature
| Soltair wrote: |
A big whole lot of deadly things make or could make awesome pictures. Volcanoes, tornadoes, lightning bolts, tidal waves, hurricane seen from above, fire (I think it looks quite good )... |
Dangerouse things can be so pretty, just scary thinking of it to hapen again. Humans has to be one of the stupidest beings on earth really, why should we want to destroy the earth? Just for for some power?
| dwinton wrote: | | The second picture is awesome. A true testimony to our dominance of nature |
I agree that the second picture is awesome. It is now my background.
I hope there's a hint of sarcasm in the 'our dominance of nature' bit though.
In reality, we do not dominate nature. Nature will annihilate us when we have destroyed enough of the planet to make our survival impossible. After that, nature will continue. Other species will fill the gaps left by our demise.
We abuse nature. Nature tolerates us.
| Quote: | | A true testimony to our dominance of nature |
Are you proud of this "dominance"?
And how is man dominating nature? Man is abusing Nature. Just because our population has grown in leaps and bounds while other species of animals and/or plants have reached extinction or have become endangered due to OUR activities does not mean we dominate Nature.
A reminder again of Nature dominating us would be the tsunami or the various hurricanes you've heard of in the recent past.
Back on topic:
The second picture doesn't look real to me, but it certainly is more stunning. Is it computer-generated, ocalhoun?
WHOA - the second photo is most scary! wow! i wonder if that is real.. does anyone know for sure?
The current theoretical upper limit to the size of a hydrogen fusion reactor converts of the order 100 Solar masses worth (2x10^32 kg) of protons to Helium nucleii in very much less than a million years, or so. Such a reactor is about to go ultranova* in the Carina nebula**, located about 7500 light years away, 60 degrees of latitude South of the Earth's equator.
The puny, "Tsar Bomb"***, released the equivalent of 60 million tonnes' worth (6x10^10 kg) of TNT, in comparison.
ed.
* It may well have already blown and we await first photon. The details are at:: http://eclipse2006.bikerman.info/Timeline%20-%20last%20days%20on%20Earth.htm
** http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/16/image/
*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQsZa8F1c
I would like to send them through a rasterbator program.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/Rasterbator.html
| dwinton wrote: | | The second picture is awesome. A true testimony to our dominance of nature |
Yeah, we've figured out pretty well how to dominate nature in the short-term, in the form of blowing things to bits. But we haven't got a clue of how to build anything comparably constructive rather than destructive, anything which can give life instead of kill and maim. So I have to agree with GSIS that we destroy nature at the risk of nature ultimately destroying us...
Scrub
WOW, that is wild. I thought I saw someone complaining that these are fake. But I don't think so in any way, the shockwaves are clearly visible and the picture is obviously old and probably scanned in because of some of the various artefacts. I surmise this was a test in the bikini islands, but its still just crazy to think that we actually designate areas for tests like this...you'd think somewhere somone would be catching all that fallout, right? No wonder why everyone has cancer these days.
Oh wow. I love those pictures. They're so vivid and awe-inspiring. They really display the horrendous power people have. I think they would be more effective at showing people such dangers rather than the typical blurry pictures seen.
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