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[–]boozles 6 points7 points ago

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I've had the pleasure of visiting the Trinity test site. It's only open to visitors a couple of days a year. The sand under the explosion was turned to glass. That's not the cool part. It was impregnated with enough uranium to turn it green and make it radioactive. As part of the research, they removed all (except for a small section) of the shallow green glass bowl it left behind, but you can still find small (think M&M size) fragments of it. Yes, they are still moderately radioactive, but it's on the order of radioactivity of a banana. The fragments I found just looked like greenish rocks, but when you hold them up to the sun, some light makes its way through. I highly recommend checking it out if you ever find yourself in near White Sands on one of the special weekends they allow visitors.

[–]Avogadro_1023 1 point2 points ago

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There was a link somewhere that took you to a site where you could actually buy pieces of said radioactive rock. Expensive as hell, but a cool rock nonetheless.

[–]topherhead 2 points3 points ago

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http://www.unitednuclear.com/ Guy sells surprisingly dangerous stuff. My understanding is that that has gotten him into hot water before.

[–]canadianman001 1 point2 points ago*

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The guy sells fucking jet engines and radioactive isotopes. Oh and an 80 watt, about 5 foot long, water cooled, Infra-red C02 Laser tube.

You could do many things with that laser. Burn down houses, blow tires off passing vehicles, blind people, engrave metal, cut metal, Oh and blow up mother fucking planets.

[–]babezorz_5000 5 points6 points ago

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looks like scrubbing bubbles

[–]SinfulDavey 2 points3 points ago

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Man's second greatest achievement.

[–]Denso24 2 points3 points ago

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When the government would not release information on the explosion (but did release pictures), dimensional analysis was used to accurately estimate its energy.

See: http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/people/codoban/PHY138/Mechanics/dimensional.pdf

[–]Avogadro_1023 1 point2 points ago

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...It looks like jello on a rock.

[–]boozles 1 point2 points ago

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Actually, I was thinking more like a prairie oyster.

[–]Marichko 0 points1 point ago

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To me it looks like a water droplet falling onto a small pile of flour.

[–]aiden11 1 point2 points ago

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Nuclear bombs/explosions both interest and terrify the shit out of me.

[–]GoochMcScrotes 1 point2 points ago

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First man-made nuclear explosion*

[–]hot4belgians 0 points1 point ago

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You sir are factually correct. The best kind of correct

[–]canadianman001 1 point2 points ago

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How do we know its the first man made. I heard somewhere in the world is the ruins of a city. The city was destroyed thousands of years ago. The entire area is irradiated.

[–]GoochMcScrotes 0 points1 point ago

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Yes, and no one really knows how it happened. But this is the world's first recorded man made explosion

[–]hot4belgians 0 points1 point ago

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I heard there's a pitchblend mine in [somewhere in africa]([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium#Prehistoric_naturally_occurring_fission) that shows strong evidence of having a nuclear explosion that naturally occurred.

[–]3lu51v3 1 point2 points ago

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Wow!! (183 metres for us metric folk)

[–]karbon92 0 points1 point ago

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Instant death zone.

[–]hot4belgians 0 points1 point ago

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It's a depressed jellyfish

[–]random_hero90 0 points1 point ago

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They are so cute when they are young.

[–]Zonak 0 points1 point ago

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Kinda looks like the Scrubbing Bubbles brushes