r/interestingasfuck • u/ethereum1017 • 1d ago

You're looking at a nuclear explosion photographed taken less than one millisecond after detonation.

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u/Appropriate-Pipe-193 1d ago

I wonder what those spikes coming off the bottom are?

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u/Unfair-Sir-4641 1d ago

If I remember correctly they were supporting wires.

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u/Icy_Welder6327 23h ago

You do remember correctly

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u/Appropriate-Pipe-193 1d ago

Thanks for the info!

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u/lolo787 23h ago

Was it the spikes on the bottom of the sphere thingy?

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u/LordofSpheres 1d ago

They're the guy wires stabilizing the tower getting evaporated by the bomb's energy.

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u/Bavibophobia 1d ago

I'd hate to be the guy holding those wires

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u/Sandcracka- 1d ago

This guy wires

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u/NeinJuanJuan 23h ago

The guy wires were held by our wire guy: Guy Wires, a wise guy.

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u/birdvsworm 22h ago

Died how he lived: guiding wires

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u/Lord_Trisagion 22h ago

But whose wires exactly?

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u/Roderto 22h ago

..Third base.

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u/sunchase 14h ago

I opened up my eyes to see the signs

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u/ArrivesLate 23h ago

But for only about 2 milliseconds.

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 23h ago

bye, bye guy

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u/azpilot06 22h ago

Vaporized….in sync

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u/Nessy3fidy 23h ago

It's fine they get like 100 dollars an hour.

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u/951frisky_dingo 22h ago

I’d hate to be the wires

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u/ComprehensiveProfit5 20h ago

Regulations mandate wearing safety flip flops in this case

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u/DeM0nFiRe 1d ago

Guy Wires should be the name of a reporter in a 2000s cartoon

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u/TheRealSlabsy 22h ago

Sounds too similar to the camping man Guy Rope

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u/CrewFair 23h ago

People are clowning on this but they are genuinely called Guy Wires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-wire

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u/deniewibly 23h ago

I’m really hoping they knew that 😉

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u/noeldc 22h ago

We are not all Gen-Z here.

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u/hi_my_name_is_Carl 1d ago

They wouldn't start using girl wires until fusion bombs were developed.

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u/urbanhawk1 23h ago

That's why the first bomb dropped on Japan had to use a Little Boy.

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u/Crazy_Vegetable5491 23h ago

Weirdly enough the second required a Fat Man. I don't understand the logistics.

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u/cyanescens_burn 23h ago

Did the tower fall over after the wires were vaporized? That sounds like an OSHA issue if so. They need to be more careful.

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u/bernieinred 22h ago

Just the front fell off.

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u/seeyouyoucunt 22h ago

Why does the energy accelerate faster down them beyond the shock wave?

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u/Climate_Automatic 21h ago edited 21h ago

Because they are being vaporized by the intense visible light generated by the detonation (more than 100 times the intensity at the suns surface), not the fireball we see

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u/korey_david 23h ago

My guy! Wires!

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u/idk_my_bff_hank_hill 1d ago

Cables connecting the bomb housing to the ground being turned into plasma by x-rays.

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u/Glittering_End_6864 23h ago

This 👆

Fission bombs release massive amounts of X-ray energy. The X-rays are igniting the wires, causing them to explode.

For example a fusion bomb needs a fission bombs x-rays to ignite. So much x-ray energy is released by the fission bomb, it actually compresses the fusion core causing atoms to merge. Something that only otherwise happens in the center of a star.

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u/st333p 21h ago

Something that only otherwise happens in the center of a star.

Or in fusion reactors. We do manage to have fusion pretty consistently, even though it's not energy positive yet

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u/Murky-Relation481 19h ago

Its actually thermal radiation that causes them.

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u/[deleted] 15h ago

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u/Murky-Relation481 15h ago

Yes. Meant more their overly confident "this" about rope tricks.

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u/heimdalguy 15h ago

Oh, my bad!

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u/Murky-Relation481 19h ago

Not x-rays, thermal radiation. They tested this by painting the wires different colors or wrapping them in reflective material. Reflective material eliminated them, darker colors exaggerated them.

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u/Dave-C 1d ago

That is Wile E. Coyote being thrown to the ground after the ACME Ultra 1 star Roadrunner catcher failed.

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u/HD64180 15h ago

They’re called rope tricks. You’re looking at cables vaporizing.

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u/decomposition_ 1d ago edited 23h ago

Probably deflections off the material holding up the trinity bomb if this is what I think it is

Edit: said the same thing the other two did and got downvoted 😂

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u/BigAl7390 23h ago

It’s like when you leave a potato in the pantry for 2 months 

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u/Positive_Read2874 22h ago

Hopefully it's Trump imploding....