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the beginning of the end of the world

https://lemmy.world/post/1944404

the beginning of the end of the world - Lemmy.world

images taken with specialized photography of the first few micro-seconds of a nuclear blast. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0aadbc4f-2a40-42dd-9bb4-a76ed2357d7c.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5becfa52-8165-45e2-af0f-fc8afdfb3067.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f87a823d-74f7-408a-a9cb-3e415e2d7381.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0b485066-87d5-400a-a277-125c5cc98712.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7fb5e609-7cfb-4a2d-9e5b-5ade9d5fc1c5.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cf79507e-ffef-492f-8a6b-cd84addae0e5.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b8ec9a1a-ca50-4b67-afc3-f335d344db45.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2ca51333-6a7d-493d-9fda-24b7348439b8.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a9e570c0-b6fd-4cfe-a831-d3b0f1abbbff.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5aad4d51-defb-4746-ae21-ecab49f8376c.jpeg] [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/706980a2-b916-4b03-b5ba-0fbbc925498f.jpeg] i am too lazy and grumpy today to find more relevant info for you (sorry). but these are sitting on my drive and it feels like the right day to post them up. have a great weekend everyone!

Jul 21, 2023 at 10:11pmWeb
Show threadSentinianJul 21, 2023
Shout-out to the cameraman for dying to get these images
Show threadPaulDevonUKJul 22, 2023

Link to that fact?

I won’t hold my breath.

Show threadSentinianJul 22, 2023
here you go
"My source is that I made it up!" Gianni Matragrano

YouTube
Show threadThtevenJul 22, 2023
Ah, a philosopher.
Show threadsicjokeJul 21, 2023

Here’s some more info:

interestingengineering.com/…/filming-the-first-mi…

It was captured by a special camera called a Rapatronic, a camera system able to take photographs at a frame rate of 10 million frames per second**.

Filming the First Milliseconds of a Nuclear Explosion with the Rapatronic: A 1950 Engineering Marvel

The Rapatronic is perhaps the world's most impressive camera capable of filming the first milliseconds of a nuclear explosion.

Interesting Engineering
Show threadJilanicoJul 21, 2023
Waiting for the day smartphones have rapatronic cameras because why not.
Show threadPlaid_KaleidoscooeJul 21, 2023
Dear Lord, imagine the flash. 💀
Show threadGregorechJul 22, 2023

How’d you get that burn?

I took a selfie…

Show threadAWildMimicAppearsJul 22, 2023
Wikipedia-Entry for the Rapatronic Camera
Rapatronic camera - Wikipedia

Show threadwombat27Jul 21, 2023

If anyone’s interested in the bits sticking out the bottom of the bubble in the forth picture;

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_trick_effect

Rope trick effect - Wikipedia

Show threadartificeJul 21, 2023
It’d be terrible, but I would love to see this with modern camera technology.
Show threadcryptiod137Jul 21, 2023
Soon…
Show threadgornarJul 22, 2023
:(
Show threadpeopleproblemsJul 21, 2023
wait how does it see inside the blast
Show threadChetzemokaJul 22, 2023

That second picture isn't the inside of the blast even though it looks a little inside out. It's the evolution of the blast a fraction of a second later in time. Those bits sticking out the right and left sides are also sticking out the front pointing toward the camera, giving it an inside out appearance.

That first picture - and I am WILDLY speculating based on my understanding of how a nuclear bomb works - might be the initial triggering blast, which is a conventional explosive like any regular bomb. The second picture might be the first appearance of the actual nuclear explosion which moves faster and is overtaking the initial conventional blast.

Again, take that with a handful of salt. I'm just hazarding a guess.

Show threadkaitcoJul 22, 2023

What I’ve always found interesting about these images is how close the initial blasts look to virus/phages, particularly their heads.

You can argue that a nuclear blast is the end of the world, but a really intense virus could end us all just as easily, albeit taking a bit longer.

Show threadomgarmJul 22, 2023
Some pictures look like a metroid from, well, Metroid.
Show threadPaulDevonUKJul 22, 2023
I remember during my early years there was a world wide fear about the upcoming test of a new Hydrogen Bomb. People feared that it might ignite the world’s atmosphere.
Show threadBig Nuts 700Jul 22, 2023
Microbiologies ♥️
Show thread99nightsJul 22, 2023
Some of the images remind me of a metroid