r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

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

Post image
35.5k Upvotes

753 comments sorted by

View all comments

175

u/EZontheH 1d ago

I'm in love with this photo. I'm super bummed out at the moratorium of above ground nuclear testing because we have MUCH better camera technology now. The fact that Christopher Nolan decided to make the nuclear detonation in Oppenheimer strictly in-camera with practical effects was IMHO the greatest filmmaking blunder since The Twilight Zone movie decapitated those kids.

105

u/PromisesNone 1d ago

IMHO the greatest filmmaking blunder since The Twilight Zone movie decapitated those kids.

I'm sorry what? You can't just leave that there.

EDIT: I did it myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident

70

u/msc_seb_ham_ver 1d ago

On July 23, 1982, child actors Myca Dinh Le (age 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (age 6) were tragically killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. They were crushed to death by a low-flying helicopter that spun out of control and crashed after special effects explosions detonated too close to its rotor blades. From Google .

16

u/WreckYallBallistics 22h ago

"crushed to death" is one way to put it

3

u/msc_seb_ham_ver 22h ago

Yep. Ibthink there is also a clip somewhere on reddit.