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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn Artist Counted Every Atomic Explosion On Earth And Shows Them All In A Matter Of Seconds
Isao Hashimoto decided to visualize all the nuclear detonations in the history of time. This doesn't start to get terrifying until it just. Doesn't. Stop. (Which is around 1956 at the 1:47 mark for those playing the terrifying home game.)
Source: Upworthy http://www.upworthy.com/an-artist-counted-every-atomic-explosion-on-earth-and-shows-them-all-in-a-matter-of-seconds-3?c=ufb2
Source: Upworthy http://www.upworthy.com/an-artist-counted-every-atomic-explosion-on-earth-and-shows-them-all-in-a-matter-of-seconds-3?c=ufb2
I couldn't watch all of it... it was too much.
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An Artist Counted Every Atomic Explosion On Earth And Shows Them All In A Matter Of Seconds (Original Post)
justiceischeap
Jan 2014
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abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)1. Hey, look how much we bombed ourselves
Pretty depressing.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)2. All of them done to keep people "safe".
The irony is overwhelming.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)3. Jeez. When were we at war with California?
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)4. Nevada
countryjake
(8,554 posts)5. That's what my SO just wondered!
He thought I'd found some game and got up to come over to see. "Why are we blowing up California?", he asks.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)9. LOL! New Mexico, Nevada. Pretty well fried, huh?
Nice that we kept most of it at home. My SNL grew up in N.M. in the 1950s and attended schools that were built underground. She knew why. New Mexico is an interesting place:
First atomic bomb at Trinity in 1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range
Spaceport America (formerly the Southwest Regional Spaceport) is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States just west of the White Sands Missile Range. It lies 179 miles (288 km) south of Albuquerque, 89 miles (143 km) north of El Paso, 45 miles (72 km) north of Las Cruces, and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Truth or Consequences. Spaceport America was officially declared open on October 18, 2011.[1]
The site has been described as "the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport".[2][3][4]
Tenants of the spaceport include Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, UP Aerospace, and Armadillo Aerospace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceport_America
The more we know, the more we freak.
First atomic bomb at Trinity in 1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range
Spaceport America (formerly the Southwest Regional Spaceport) is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States just west of the White Sands Missile Range. It lies 179 miles (288 km) south of Albuquerque, 89 miles (143 km) north of El Paso, 45 miles (72 km) north of Las Cruces, and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Truth or Consequences. Spaceport America was officially declared open on October 18, 2011.[1]
The site has been described as "the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport".[2][3][4]
Tenants of the spaceport include Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, UP Aerospace, and Armadillo Aerospace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceport_America
The more we know, the more we freak.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)6. One was too many.
The human race is one messed up species.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)7. Tis true. nt
countryjake
(8,554 posts)8. kickety
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)10. I actually find that somewhat reassuring.
Fast forward to the end of the cold war and watch it cool down again - the world is much less likely to end tomorrow than it was thirty years ago.