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[–]The_Dude_87 73 points74 points ago

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Before long a professor of electrical engineering from MIT named Harold Eugene “Doc” Edgerton invented the rapatronic camera, a device capable of capturing images from the fleeting instant directly following a nuclear explosion. These single-use cameras were able to snap a photo one ten-millionth of a second after detonation from about seven miles away, with an exposure time of as little as ten nanoseconds. At that instant, a typical fireball had already reached about 100 feet in diameter, with temperatures three times hotter than the surface of the sun.

http://www.damninteresting.com/rapatronic-nuclear-photographs/

[–]ynoty3k 14 points15 points ago

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I'd say that was damn interesting!

[–]The_Dude_87 6 points7 points ago

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...Sooo much we don't know

[–]delabass 1 point2 points ago

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So brave...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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i dare say it was a remote camera

[–]delabass 1 point2 points ago

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So dumb...

[–]ballanumbersix 4 points5 points ago

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I looked at the picture. Read the title. I said to myself, "What the fuck is a rapatronic camera?" Clicked on comments. Top post is the exact information I wanted, with a source too. Thank you sir, for damn near instant knowledge.

[–]The_Dude_87 3 points4 points ago

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It's what I'm here for, it's what i'm here for...

[–]Ozyman666 9 points10 points ago

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This one's cool, half the tower is still standing.

[–]pencil364 6 points7 points ago

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I think "half the tower still exists" is probably a better description lol. All of these photos have the tower poking out the bottom unless they were flat ground detonations.

[–]Zapharos 16 points17 points ago

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That's a big metroid.

[–]cheftec 0 points1 point ago

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It does indeed.

[–]breadmunch -4 points-3 points ago

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[10] guy strikes again...

[–]sevwolf11 7 points8 points ago

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if there is a series of these pics showing more, I would love to see more :D

[–]CleanBaldy 2 points3 points ago

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Agreed. I would love to have seen 2ms, 3ms, 4ms, 5ms, etc.

[–]eninety2 0 points1 point ago

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About 250k people saw it first hand in Japan....

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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[–]sevwolf11 6 points7 points ago

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Go figure that Google would have been the answer. Thank you for your effort that would have made most lazy men look at me and wonder why I am so lazy. lol XD

[–]Bandit1379 0 points1 point ago

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If only there were gifs...

[–]spinozasrobot 8 points9 points ago

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[–]jorellh 1 point2 points ago

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[–]spinozasrobot 0 points1 point ago

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Odd, I see no mention of fissile material in that link.

[–]shpok 7 points8 points ago

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That's a pretty big ball of fire for less than 1 millisecond.

[–]Phrea 5 points6 points ago

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It's probably much much shorter than 'less than 1 millisecond'.

[–]frak21 4 points5 points ago

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I understand that the fission chain reaction in a nuclear explosion, from beginning to end, lasts about 3 nanoseconds. Everything else after that is distributing all the energy released.

[–]rocklawbster 3 points4 points ago

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Not ironically at all, this is the only picture on the wikipedia page for "Rapatronic Camera"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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Here's the whole series: click me!

[–]Jackz0r 11 points12 points ago

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Anyone else read this as "rapetronic camera?"

I'll see myself out.

[–]17-40 6 points7 points ago

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That's what they have at airports now.

[–]NormalStranger 1 point2 points ago

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Actually read it as "raptoronic"

[–]tlingitsoldier 0 points1 point ago

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Came here to ask the same thing.

[–]r2mayo -1 points0 points ago

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No, but I just found the name for my combination HIP HOP and DubStep group RAP-A-TRONIC

[–]gary0ak -1 points0 points ago

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Guilty

[–]RosieJo 2 points3 points ago

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Scary. Looks like a deep sea jellyfish or something...

[–]G-Winnz 5 points6 points ago

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Little known fact: the spikes on the bottom are support ropes/cables subliming. Proof:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_trick_effect

[–]anklereddit 1 point2 points ago

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It looks like a giant virus. Great shot.

[–]popimfresh 1 point2 points ago

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yea, Edgerton was something else.

[–]madrespect 1 point2 points ago

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shit's about to get weird

[–]SickSean 1 point2 points ago

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It's so beautiful and it just gets better

[–]VikingBoatTruckBoat 0 points1 point ago

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So beautiful yet so destructive all at once.

[–]L00n 1 point2 points ago

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Seriously scary looking...

[–]rib-bit 1 point2 points ago

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similar to what the big bang could have looked like?

[–]Its_Phobos 10 points11 points ago

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No way of knowing. The big bang wouldn't be observable from outside the confines of the universe itself, and photons didn't move freely until 380,000 years after the event.

[–]axearm 2 points3 points ago

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So you are saying it's possible?

[–]astrokinetic 1 point2 points ago

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[–]pencil364 7 points8 points ago

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Fake colourization, just guessing.

[–]IUironman 0 points1 point ago

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Boom!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Reminds me of a character form a Daniel Quinn book talking about receiving a pension from the Manhattan Project for coming up with a way to capture still images at a rate an order of magnitude higher than traditional lenses using prisms.

[–]dman24752 0 points1 point ago

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I think I just found my new rapper name.

[–]jamdrumsspace 0 points1 point ago

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So just wtf are we looking at? Raw energy? Some swirl of energetic particles?

[–]elperroborrachotoo 0 points1 point ago

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This kills the camera?

[–]oote 0 points1 point ago

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Surreal

[–]DougWomble -1 points0 points ago

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Well, we're boned.

[–]DDancy 0 points1 point ago

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CHEESE IT!!!