Dis Da BOMB !

[Pete44ru]

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[AJMD429]

Wow. Look at the level of technology then vs. now, yet how devastating the results were...



Amazing all those guys around the bombs and didn't have radiation suits or anything; wouldn't there be enough escaping radiation to cook some of their DNA...???

[Blaine]

Wow. Look at the level of technology then vs. now, yet how devastating the results were...



Amazing all those guys around the bombs and didn't have radiation suits or anything; wouldn't there be enough escaping radiation to cook some of their DNA...???

I have no idea if this is true, but I read in an article about plutonium that if there was a golf ball-sized piece of pure plutonium on the fifty yard line, and you ran at it from the end zone, that you would be dead before you got to it......

[Chuck 100 yd]

Interesting! Thanks.

[Old Ironsights]

Wow. Look at the level of technology then vs. now, yet how devastating the results were...



Amazing all those guys around the bombs and didn't have radiation suits or anything; wouldn't there be enough escaping radiation to cook some of their DNA...???

Doc... I TOLD YOU, you are NOT allowed into my shed. Especially with a camera...

That was an attempt to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins...

[1894c]

wow... :O

[Pete44ru]

I have no idea if this is true, but I read in an article about plutonium that if there was a golf ball-sized piece of pure plutonium on the fifty yard line, and you ran at it from the end zone, that you would be dead before you got to it......

Not hardly........ plutonium is deadly radioactive, but AFAIK plutonium by itself won't kill you immediately.

Depending upon the exposure time & rad strength, it'd most likely take someone directly exposed to it anywhere from a few days to a year to die from the radiation poisoning.


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[Pete44ru]

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[Blaine]

I have no idea if this is true, but I read in an article about plutonium that if there was a golf ball-sized piece of pure plutonium on the fifty yard line, and you ran at it from the end zone, that you would be dead before you got to it......

Not hardly........ plutonium is deadly radioactive, but AFAIK plutonium by itself won't kill you immediately.

Depending upon the exposure time & rad strength, it'd most likely take someone directly exposed to it anywhere from a few days to a year to die from the radiation poisoning.


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Yep, you're right.....I'm not sure WHERE I heard that one....maybe an NBC block of instruction in the Army.....

[Hagler]

That was an attempt to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins...

...said Mr. Spock

Shawn

[Neil Casper]

With how little they knew about what they were doing, the relatively crude equipment and the level of technology back then, I'm a little surprised they didn't blow us up way before they got it to the Pacific theater. They sure had vision and the will to carry it out, though.

God Bless them for what they did. From the President down to the ground crews.

[Gobblerforge]

That was an attempt to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins...

...said Mr. Spock

Shawn

Good catch. The Guardian will be pleased.
Gobbler

[FWiedner]

While the bomb itself was a phenomenon of science, I'd have to believe that they made a choice to keep what they could as 'low tech' as they could.

Remember that someone had to arm this thing in-flight on a B-29. Kinda like assembling a watch inside a washing machine.

It's not exactly at the level of "Insert tab A into slot B" (but it does look close), I'm sure that they preferred to minimize the problems that might be encountered by making the operation too complicated or overly intricate for that bombardier/flight officer.

[old06]

Where is Dr. Strangelove when you need him I have it on the DVR and watch it a few times a year

[TedH]

Very cool.

[bdhold]

Where is Dr. Strangelove when you need him I have it on the DVR and watch it a few times a year

you can do that and preserve the purity of your bodily fluids?

[M. M. Wright]

I was a little kid, about 5 but I remember VJ night vividly. There was a party at our house and every one was so relieved the war was finally over. Our couch and chairs were carried out in the yard and there must have been 25 or 30 people there. One of Dad's old friends from California was there with 2 cases of Olympia beer. A brand that we hadn't seen in Oklahoma. Lots of celebrating that night. Dad got drunk and slept all night in the yard. Mom was not happy with him.

Thanks for the memories.

[Merle]

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Fascinating!!!! Thanks for posting!

[Blaine]

While the bomb itself was a phenomenon of science, I'd have to believe that they made a choice to keep what they could as 'low tech' as they could.

Remember that someone had to arm this thing in-flight on a B-29. Kinda like assembling a watch inside a washing machine.

It's not exactly at the level of "Insert tab A into slot B" (but it does look close), I'm sure that they preferred to minimize the problems that might be encountered by making the operation too complicated or overly intricate for that bombardier/flight officer.

I'll bet there were butts that did not turn loose of their underwear for hours......

[cshold]

While the bomb itself was a phenomenon of science, I'd have to believe that they made a choice to keep what they could as 'low tech' as they could.

Remember that someone had to arm this thing in-flight on a B-29. Kinda like assembling a watch inside a washing machine.

It's not exactly at the level of "Insert tab A into slot B" (but it does look close), I'm sure that they preferred to minimize the problems that might be encountered by making the operation too complicated or overly intricate for that bombardier/flight officer.

"Washing Machine" What washing machine???

[Merle]

While the bomb itself was a phenomenon of science, I'd have to believe that they made a choice to keep what they could as 'low tech' as they could.

Remember that someone had to arm this thing in-flight on a B-29. Kinda like assembling a watch inside a washing machine.

It's not exactly at the level of "Insert tab A into slot B" (but it does look close), I'm sure that they preferred to minimize the problems that might be encountered by making the operation too complicated or overly intricate for that bombardier/flight officer.

I'll bet there were butts that did not turn loose of their underwear for hours......

Yeah, that's why they didn't arm it on the ground - in case it crashed on takeoff.....