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Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert

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Re: Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert

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Post by phendrenad2 »

Fej wrote: post #29
phendrenad2 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re just talking about the islands themselves, I’d say that falls under the umbrella of aesthetics: are the islands more or less beautiful now? We’ll never have an aesthetics court to argue such things, sadly.

There are a couple islands which have massive holes in them now. We're not talking about small craters. You can see them on Google Maps.

Holes in islands are natural. A meteorite could easily have made the crater instead. Humans didn't do anything abnormal to the islands, really.

Re: Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert

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Post by jakeogh »

jcims wrote: post #12
mynameishere wrote: post #2

Any with audio? To this day I'm only aware of one video where you actually hear the detonation, albeit with whatever equipment they could grab out of the dumpster behind the nearest Radioshack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKwkTYeukE4

I always wondered if that odd vibration at the beginning was due to some electromagnetic effect of the detonation.

I experienced something similar ~15 years ago, some friends and I got between Phoenix and Vegas (via darksky.org's map) to watch the Leonids. As we were setting up in the late afternoon, two big fireballs crossed right over us - horizon to horizon - one slightly trailing the other, they had blue ion tails right behind them which were visible in the daylight, and everything around us made a buzzing sound, it's desert, so it's dry leaves etc. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/oct/23/research.h...

Re: Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert

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Post by jcims »

jakeogh wrote: post #32
jcims wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always wondered if that odd vibration at the beginning was due to some electromagnetic effect of the detonation.

I experienced something similar ~15 years ago, some friends and I got between Phoenix and Vegas (via darksky.org's map) to watch the Leonids. As we were setting up in the late afternoon, two big fireballs crossed right over us - horizon to horizon - one slightly trailing the other, they had blue ion tails right behind them which were visible in the daylight, and everything around us made a buzzing sound, it's desert,…

Yes! I had the same thing happen probably about the same time. Was sitting in a hot tub watching whichever ones happen in August and started to notice that the aluminum flashing on the deck would make a hissing/sizzling sound when the bigger ones hit.

It was also the first time I noticed a greenish trail glowing after the meteor.

Re: Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert

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Post by brokenmachine »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #31
Fej wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a couple islands which have massive holes in them now. We're not talking about small craters. You can see them on Google Maps.

Holes in islands are natural. A meteorite could easily have made the crater instead. Humans didn't do anything abnormal to the islands, really.

Can't tell if trolling or serious.
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