Originally posted by astroboy
The forces are beautiful and elegant. it takes humans to do horrible things with them.
I agree, I meant that their force is horrible in a literary way, not that they have the quality of being horrid.
I consider the invention of nuclear weapons to be right up there with penicillin in terms of human achievement. Concurring the forces of nature and bending them to our will.
Joss Weatherby
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Originally posted by bas
Thank God I can just hide in a refrigerator and avoid all that nonsense.
Hey, they used a lot of lead back then, and things were built to last in America!!! INCLUDING PROFESSORS! :whip: :toocool:
The recreation of Doomstown, USA though was pretty nice, the mannequins that they had in the houses looked very much like the ones used in the actual tests.
DJ Shibby
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Maybe gas, using nitrogen asphyxiation (supposedly painless or nearly so).
though technically i suppose all methods of death will include aphyxiation.
the downside to all methods of death is that you'll probably linger for a lot longer than modern science claims.
astroboy
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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
I agree, I meant that their force is horrible in a literary way, not that they have the quality of being horrid.
I consider the invention of nuclear weapons to be right up there with penicillin in terms of human achievement. Concurring the forces of nature and bending them to our will.
Then you'll appreciate this.. Tsar Bomba - 57 megatons (original design was 100). Biggest bomb ever detonated.
:D :D :D
dj_alfi
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Originally posted by Sunsnail
imagine humans the entire nuclear bomb?
i accidently a whole word in that sentence.
dj_alfi
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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
I'm pretty sure most of them knew what was going to happen to the victims...
Oppenheimer quoted a Hindu text at Trinity saying "Now I am become death. The destroyer of worlds" where as the Trinity Site director, Kenneth Bainbridge, said this after the test "Now we are all sons of bitches."
They knew what they were playing with. They unleashed the most horrible basic forces of the universe upon the world.
yeah i know they knew what they were dealing with, but i doubt they sat down at a meeting and had a a brainstorming session where they were all like "yeah, and it would be so ing cool if it made you poop yourself, and when they're like 'omg how could this get any worse?' WHAM! your muscles melt!"
Originally posted by bas
RE: the whole cocaine v heroine thing. I'm sure heroine is lovely, I'd still like to go out in a flurry of blow and strippers. Just sayin', sounds a lot more fun than ODing in my ty studio apartment's bathroom with a belt strapped to my forearm and a dirty needle sticking out of me. I mean it's bad enough that that's how Abbos like Domesticated go out, I'm not gonna be in that pile. No sir, I have a job.
How about a belt around your neck, with your in your hand?
KilldaDJ
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Originally posted by dj_alfi
i accidently a whole word in that sentence.
i just entirely.
Joss Weatherby
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Originally posted by astroboy
Then you'll appreciate this.. Tsar Bomba - 57 megatons (original design was 100). Biggest bomb ever detonated.
Yar, just one of those would have taken out half of the UK... :p
There were rumors, and they are pretty shoddy at best, that they actually deployed a similar device to the one they tested in East Berlin. The supposed idea being that if NATO forces pushed Warsaw Pact forces far enough back it would be used as a last ditch weapon.
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by DJ Shibby
you think suffocation is painless? LOL
