Time Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion on Earth

[RenaissanceLady]

This is actually rather sobering.

Time lapse map of every nuclear explosion ever on Earth | memolition

 

[boomerang]

The global overview is chilling. Frames taken by high speed cameras of the birth and evolution of these monsters, I find horrifying at yet another level. The glowing spikes trailing downward in the first frames (or whatever) are apparently electromagnetic energy following guy wires on the tower, used to support the bomb, to ground. Technical mindset to the contrary, it's hard not to see these devices as something living and evil.

 

[Burnt State]

Watching the video felt like a minimalist Commodore 64 early 80's home video game except the sensation was like the feeling you get when you watch Caldicott in, "If You Love This Planet." It's just plain sad.

 

[SonofaSkunk]

"Efficiency measurements." Well, I guess that's one way of putting it.

 

[Randall]

This is actually rather sobering.
Time lapse map of every nuclear explosion ever on Earth | memolition

Here's the video for everyone's convenience:

 

[Randall]

And then there's the possibility of good ole mother nature
one upping our little firecrackers​

 

[Burnt State]

 

[stonehart]

sobering is it not?

 

[Rizla]

Renaissance Lady, thanks so much for this, link shared all over everywhere I can. Brilliant and creepy and strangely liberating and powerful. No Nukes!

 

[Burnt State]

sobering is it not?

That is the word for it. I posted it here to commemorate Canada's foremost anti-nuclear activist, Irene Kock. She was my former neighbour's sister. If You Love This Planet was the movie that started her on a life long environmental activist pursuit. This link commemorates her late partner Dave Martin who continued on her work after she died on New Year's Eve, 2001.

http://www.ccnr.org/Dave_Martin.pdf

Her death came the winter after my Dad's death the previous summer. These two deaths forged quite a bond between her brother and I as we mourned our respective losses. I bought a 16mm print of that movie to watch with Henry, her brother, my neighbour, my mentor and dear friend. He was one of Canada's premier environmentalists. Not to be outdne by his sister, he died one Christmas morning eight years ago.

Whenever I think about nuclear bombs I get this chain of dead people I once knew linking through my head as it connects its way back to those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nothing left but shadows on the wall. That's all I see.

 

[mike]

I saw this a while back, but im always moved by it

 

[stonehart]