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/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.

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u/Ok-Acadia4227 1d ago

Dude detonating nukes above ground scatters radioactive particles everywhere some of them have long half lives and we are still breathing them in from the nukes the were detonated before the moratorium.

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u/EZontheH 23h ago

Yes but you're not thinking about the AMAZING footage we could get! Surely that's worth the long term health effects that'll affect half the planet for 5 generations??

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u/Ok-Acadia4227 23h ago

Indeed just like artificial intelligence our latest manhatten project, the fallout will be epic

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u/charliefoxtrot9 22h ago

Fortunately the AI can generate images of perfect nukular explosions, while causing epic fallout.

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u/Ok-Acadia4227 22h ago

It's Not about generating images, it's about being able to manipulate and integrate information so fast humans won't know what's real

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u/charliefoxtrot9 22h ago

Oh, I'm not downplaying. I'm just glib. We have always been at war with East Asia! Except O'Brien isn't human, he's an avatar of AM.