Five blokes stand right under a nuclear bomb explosion which takes place 3Km above their heads.
The bloke in the middle with sunglasses on is doing the narration. I think they had the wrong colour trousers on for this experiment.
(, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 13:52, Reply)
that is nuts
that anyone volunteered to do that.
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:00,
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it was 1957,
they hadn't invented the idea of "danger". Asbestos was still going to save the world from fire and they were putting more lead in paint than you can shake a stick at. It's only natural that nuclear bombs should be safe as well. Because SCIENCE.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:06,
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You forgot to add
that atomic bombs were going to save the world from Teh Commynizts.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:11,
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I had a suspicion you wouldn't like hippies,
what with their foolish ideas about being nice to people and everything. Have you ever taken this test?
personality-testing.info/tests/MACH-IV.php
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:35,
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Hippies were and are only about selfishness. Good try.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:01,
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really?
selfishly protesting against wars and nuclear weapons and so forth? I mean of all the complaints I hear about hippies, this is a new one to me. Do explain.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:04,
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Boobies!
oh wait.. I mean HIPPIES!
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:07,
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hippies weren't neccessarily actively political beyond living their counter cultural lifestyles...
yippies were...
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tickle I was away, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:59,
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ok but counter-culture isn't necessarily selfish,
I don't equate conformity and obedience with altruism.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 16:01,
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all hippies do is sit around, smoke spliffs, and spout drivel about things they know nothing about
and look like complete tools while doing it.
(, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 16:13, Reply)
well they do a certain amount of that but they mean well.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 16:15,
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always with the Hitler,
actually, you don't know the half of it, I've been to green festivals, I've heard them standing at the front of a marquee with a microphone spouting drivel so bad you would have a stroke. Jingoistic neo-paganism and conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds, "they're all from the same gene pool if you know what I mean," my Jewish friend was like "wtf did he just say"
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 16:34,
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Took the test got 48 out 100
That whole 60's 70's generation were all for peace and love until it became unfashionable, voted for people like Thatcher and Regan and fucked everything up that their parents generation fought so hard for during the inter war period and after the second world war. Same baby boom fuckers that are going to make our generation pay for their fucked up economic legacy. Total respect for actual hippies though, you know the ones that stuck with it and became acid victims ;)
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Jorvic, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 16:15,
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I got fucking average.
low machs apparently, machievelli can get to fuck.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sun 15 Jul 2012, 16:47,
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except the soviet ones,
obv.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:14,
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just watched this right through
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
scary stuff
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:27,
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"How about a nice game of Chess?" :-)
Fortunately, the big nations are not testing as much anymore since the need for all that sabre-rattling has died down. But there are plenty of other little crazies out there who still want to play with them :-(.
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JamTallons, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 18:10,
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well this is a given, i am the first to admit that
as i am nuts myself, but not so much so that i would say... "suuure detonate an atomic bomb over my head, let's see what happens."
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:07,
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They likely got seconds in the chow hall. In training, food rules.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:02,
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ahh.
my uncle did say shit on a shingle was mighty tasty.
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:12,
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Crazy bastards!
*clicks*
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:10,
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Awesome
I actually want to do that.
More info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:32,
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Cor.. I bet they drink carling black label.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:44,
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2 kilo tons? my arse blasts out more than that
lol
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Ham o' Shatner -.-- --- ..- .-. / .- .-.. .-.. / --. .- -.--, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 14:46,
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... I did see a cloud shaped like a big cock,
right?
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The Togaboy The world will end on, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:03,
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I thought that nuclear expolsions
Gave off an E.M.P which disables all electronics caught in the blast radius?
Shirley if they can feel the heat pulse then they are close enough?
(, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:24, Reply)
maybe so,
but they were using clunky analogue equipment in those days, they weren't filming it on a mobile phone.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:28,
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wood panelled electronics with circuits made of light bulbs
and big toggle switches that give you a work out and make satisfyingly loud clacky noises when you toggle them.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:59,
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I always use magic beans and fairy dust to film my nuclear explosions.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:57,
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crap, now you tell me...
*goes to return my hero2 as it is useless*
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 16:21,
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only if you are
selling fairy dust too. i've done my research, the beans don't work without it.
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 17:07,
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Haven't got any fairy dust, I have some angel dust though, will that do?
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sun 15 Jul 2012, 17:12,
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hmm..
will have to get back to you, i need to look up the compatibility of angel dust and magic beans.
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miss fortunate last posted ages ago, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 17:23,
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That was well known at the time
and its possible to shield against it. All you need to do it put the item in question into a metal box.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:58,
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why don't they just put the bomb in a metal box then
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 15:59,
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and
During the first United States nuclear test on 16 July 1945, electronic equipment was shielded due to Enrico Fermi's expectation of an electromagnetic pulse from the detonation. The official technical history for that first nuclear test states, "All signal lines were completely shielded, in many cases doubly shielded. In spite of this many records were lost because of spurious pickup at the time of the explosion that paralyzed the recording equipment."[2] During British nuclear testing in 1952–1953 there were instrumentation failures that were attributed to "radioflash", which was then the British term for EMP.[3][4]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 16:07,
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shit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_radiation_belts
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 16:20,
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Fucking hell.
That is pretty bloody irresponsible.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sun 15 Jul 2012, 17:10,
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And yet smoking causes lung cancer, even in people who don't smoke. There can't possibly be any connection between exploding nuclear devices in the atmosphere and lung cancer, oh no.
(, Sun 15 Jul 2012, 21:20, Reply)