Paranoid Marvin Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 I came across this picture today on Digg: There's more information here. I guess it sounds a little crazy, coming from me, who is very anti nuclear. But aren't nuclear mushroom clouds so beautiful? Something so enormously destructive and devastating holds a tremendous beauty. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 Wow, Thats amazing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-447226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayanami Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 It looks....Umm..... I dunno if I'd say beautiful, but, to each their own... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-447247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 Just a small point, but that it NOT the cloud. That image is from the nanoseconds following the ignition, and is the beginning of the fireball. What fascinates me is that when you compare this to images of the eagle nebulae you can see how closely the elemental nature of a nuclear explosion corresponds to the birth of stars... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-447270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 It definitely is beautiful in its own destructive, powerful way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-447297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I guess it sounds a little crazy, coming from me, who is very anti nuclear. But aren't nuclear mushroom clouds so beautiful? Something so enormously destructive and devastating holds a tremendous beauty. I don't understand being pro-nuclear (weapons at least, nuclear power ftw.) Once you let that "Nuclear Genie" out of the bottle, its not going back in. I always thought the below image was very cool: That is the 'Tsar Bomba' the largest thermonuclear weapon ever tested. The bomb was tested by the U.S.S.R. on 8/30/1961 and had a yield of 50 Megatons. The fireball touched the ground, reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and was seen and felt 1,000 km away. The heat from the explosion could have caused third degree burns 100 km away from ground zero. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 60 km high (nearly seven times higher than Mount Everest) and 30–40 km wide. The explosion could be seen and felt in Finland, even breaking windows there [4]. Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage up to 1,000 km away. The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the Earth. Its Richter magnitude was about 5 to 5.25[4] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-450027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 There are some nice videos of nuclear tests on a string of islands in the pacific, truly beautiful. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-450338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 The first pic looks like a tumor to me... hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-450348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nev6 Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 , nuclear power ftw. yeah, those cancer-causing sr-90 emissions are just great... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-464216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 yeah, those cancer-causing sr-90 emissions are just great... Still, overall doesn't Nuclear Power pollute less than Oil-based solutions? Also, doesnt Sr-90 come from Nuclear weapons testing? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-464231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nev6 Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Still, overall doesn't Nuclear Power pollute less than Oil-based solutions? Also, doesnt Sr-90 come from Nuclear weapons testing? Well, I have some insight (not to say I'm an expert) into this since I work in a Nuke Plant... (seems hypocritical, no?) It pollutes less in the smog department, and the solid waste departments (substially so)... However we do still have solid waste, we have no-where really to put it (there was a site in ...az I believes that a lot of nukes put a lot of money into only to have it basically go to {censored}) If the waste is kept in a controlled area, then it's a non-issue really...kinda. For the time being at least. sr-90 comes from weapon testing and from nuclear power plants, the NRC (nuclear regulatory comission) allows a certain amount of sr-90 waste to be released each year... an amounts that's roughly 1/5th of the output from Chernobyl (I believe, may have been 3 mile island)... so that's rather high in my opinion, wouldn't you think? So... it's good in some ways and substantially bad in others. I'm not even sure if it's the lesser of two evils, although it likely is. We really should be looking into alternative means of power though... (they're building a ton of new nukes around the country in the next 8 years or so, so that really doesn't seem to be happening) Not to mention most companies own nukes and fossil (and chemical etc) plants, so even if they're doing "good" with a nuke, they're still potentially sinking the profits into a new fossil plant too... y'kno? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-464238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Not to mention most companies own nukes and fossil (and chemical etc) plants, so even if they're doing "good" with a nuke, they're still potentially sinking the profits into a new fossil plant too... I suppose you are right. Thanks for informing me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-464249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nev6 Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 I suppose you are right. Thanks for informing me. It's easy to find fault in everything when you're a cynical pessimist Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-464279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 Pretty cool. Nano-bomb?Pretty cool. Nano-bomb? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-471744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djet Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I find it very scary that one of the smallest of things can create an explosion felt around the world.......sorta ironic. BTW I meant felt not physically, although it is scary that the explosion is that devastating. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-472087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I find it very scary that one of the smallest of things can create an explosion felt around the world.......sorta ironic. Well you need a lot of atoms before you can "ignite an explosion". Critical mass for Uranium233 is 15 kg and Plutonium239 10 kg. But of course when it does the effect comparing to the mass is fenomenal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/63168-beautiful-image/#findComment-472680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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