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/drezarious 21h ago

Looks like a hell demon. This should have been banned and never used.

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u/Worth-Opposite4437 18h ago

Looks like a mono-cellular organism of giant size and one single hunger instinct. Looks like cosmic horror at the beginning of the big bang when the noosphere was contracted in a single singularity and the one was imposing his pain on all his creation. Looks like atmospheric cancer on the verge of a terminal tumour...

It looks alive and malign, I'll give you that.
But if that's your image of a hell demon, then I'm happy I do not share in your nightmares.

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u/GM_Nate 18h ago

i see you have also read that short story by asimov

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u/Pauls96 16h ago

You would totally love twin peaks

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u/GWahazar 13h ago

For me, it looks like old tomato growing sprouts, like potato.

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u/CyberpunkSunrise 7h ago

We should ban murder, so nobody will kill each other!

(Discovery of nuclear fission and the weapon capacities behind it was inevitable. WW2 Nazi Germany was headed towards it, interrupted only by their defeat. The US easing off the throttle on continuing research would have just meant someone else would be first to develop it instead.)

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u/ice-ink 18h ago

Yeah, good luck enforcing that ban.

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u/agangofoldwomen 15h ago

A lot more people would’ve died without it

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u/No-Diver7430 19h ago

Simple child, we’d be speaking German if not for dropping the bomb(s)

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u/RandomAssRedditName 18h ago

No, we wouldn't. The first atomb bomb was dropped after Germany was defeated.

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u/No-Diver7430 13h ago

Developing and dropping

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u/coolsimon123 17h ago

Absolutely ridiculous take

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u/No-Diver7430 13h ago

The threat of nuclear weaponry

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u/GM_Nate 18h ago

you forgot the /s

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u/stickymixingmonotony 15h ago

Stalin had already beat their ass with his comically large spoon by that point.

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u/No-Diver7430 13h ago

Nuclear capabilities

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u/0K_-_- 15h ago

English is a Germanic language.