John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: February 16, 2006 07:29AM

This Harold Edgerton photo of an H-bomb test explosion looks almost like a Virgil Finlay illustration.
Automatic Camera situated 7 miles from blast with 10 foot lens. Shutter speed equaled 1/100,000,000 of-a-second exposure. Joshua tree’s near base get vaporized in just microseconds.

cesiuminjector Report This Comment
Date: February 16, 2006 08:33AM

good posting - where did you find this

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: February 16, 2006 10:04AM

umm would the be the right time to point out that A-bomb means a bomb powered by U-238 not hydrogen?

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: February 16, 2006 10:05AM

Awsome photos tho =D

John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: February 16, 2006 06:45PM

Point taken: This is an H-bomb explosion. Not Atom bomb.
Found them on some random site.. the site of the guy who did the "Nitro-powered Mower" photoshop on himself.
So strange, the explosion, such a curious warping of matter.

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: February 17, 2006 04:06PM

Yeah what makes me wonder is why that pattern? are explosions supposed to come from apoint source and expand uniformly? Would air currents have that much of an impact on the shape?