#And Tsar Bomba

[catgirl-kaiju]

FUN FACT!

the first ever hydrogen bomb detonated (Operation Ivy: Shot Mike) completely vaporized the island it was detonated on, leaving a giant undersea crater in its place. there was an island there, and now it's just fucking gone.

The island was Elugelab in the Enewetak Atoll

Before the Ivy Mike test:

After the Ivy Mike test:

the thing about the Ivy Mike test, though, is that the bomb was too big, impractical, and heavy to carry in an airplane, afix to a rocket, or fire from a canon. still, the blast had a yield of 10.4 megatons, rivaled only by the infamous Castle Bravo test (US 15 megatons), the B-41/ Mk-41 Bomb ( US 25 megatons), and the Tsar Bomba test (USSR 50 megatons).

The rest of these bombs can be dropped from airplanes. The Tsar Bomba design was, however, never put into production as a practical weapon and was simply intended to be a one-off exercise with the goal of creating the largest yeild atomic weapon in history. (it succeeded)

[magicaldragons]

binbin's last sacrifice.

i think this series showed us, intentionally or not, how powerful love can be.

we see binbin as a child, sacrificing meals for si-o, taking care of him, giving him hope for a future.

after years spent away from ryu si-o — years filled with punishment, tests, and manipulation under pavel's hand — he returns with one mission: his first mission. Ryu si-o.

Kill Anton, or you will be killed.

and ryu si-o smiles, happy to meet his one and only friend, and says once, quietly: don't betray me. let me die with atleast you having been on my side.

and binbin, even under threat of death, and knowing that there is no other outcome for ryu si-o, still decides to give his best friend control over his own death.

binbin's final sacrifice.

[bucksboobs]

Eh Pell will be fine I just saw Zoro, Sanji, and Chopper survive falls at terminal velocity into solid concrete and the wind barely got knocked out of them

[cant-happen-here]

She Hiro on my Shima till I...

She Naga on my Saki till I...

[errorx429]

Did one of those art of the year thingies I don't know

[nicklloydnow]

“Hard times make strong men. Strong men make nuclear weapons and good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men and nuclear weapons make End Times. And people have to stop this “Fourth Turning” nonsense.” - Eric Weinstein, ‘The Rubin Report’ (7 November 2023)

[beardedmrbean]

Biggest man made boom in history

[the-uncanny-dag]

Remember how Americans spent like a month or 2 a year ago crying throwing up bc they thought that WW3 is gonna happen. Lol. LMAO

[not-so-superheroine]

ask me about nuclear bombs and accidents (or if you want to know the basics of nuclear energy and why it's the future and not as scary as it seems to a lot of folk, but thats normie stuff)

fun fact: The USSR's Tsar Bomba, the largest nuke ever detonated, was also one of the "cleanest" nuclear weapons detonation ever, the bombs design was made to contain 97% of the possible nuclear fallout.

related fact: The Tsar Bomba was far too big to be of practical use. it's too big a bomb and you'd be seen from miles away. the had to strap it to a modified bomber plane. because it was so physically huge. the testing of the Tsar Bomba, was to make a point about what the Soviets are capable of and that they are to be taken seriously.

autistic who goes “fun fact” and then proceeds to tell you the most gruesome unfunny thing you’ve heard all day

[cmbdragon98]

White light

White heat

Nirvana

Tsar bomba

Tsar bomba

[mizuthe-cat]

Today I learned that nuclear bombs are slightly smaller than I imagined them to be

[iamgoingtooppenheimeryou]

i wonder what i should do with The World Machine...

[rainbowgod666]

EEE-(detonation)

Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:

• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.

• Baby Gronk was mentioned.

• We discussed the Rizzler.

• “Cunty” was nominated.

• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.

• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”

• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.

• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”

[ripplequest]

CHEESETESTANT #03: Tsar Bomba

[leapingmonkeys]

The monster atomic bomb that was too big to use

[typezerostudios]

Uh... I gotta say Neil, think you're greatly underestimating how powerful that weapon would be.

That was tested at 50 megatons, and leveled a village 34 miles away. Doubling that power and using vague and probably wrong math brings it up to about a 50 mile radius, so you could probably get a couple of cities, plus everything in between.

Looking at the most populous city in the world, Tokyo (sorry Japan) you could hit Chiba, Saitama, Yokohama, and Kofu, which would net you something close to 20 million just from the cities, not counting everything in between them.

No kill like overkill.

hi niel. i have a very important question:

if you were being attacked by an infinite number of chickens, how many do you think you could kill before the chickens overcame you?

Couldn't I just climb a tree? Or get in a car and drive away? I bet I could finish out my lifetime before the chickens caught up with me.