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!

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
Waiting for the day smartphones have rapatronic cameras because why not.
Dear Lord, imagine the flash. 💀

How’d you get that burn?

I took a selfie…