[QUOTE=Thrilled;38175932]Proof?[/QUOTE]
You were the first to make an unsourced statement, therefore the burden of proof is on you.
[QUOTE=WubWubWompWomp;38176258]You were the first to make an unsourced statement, therefore the burden of proof is on you.[/QUOTE]
Everything I said was based off my personal understanding. I wasn't making a blunt statement or trying to correct others like this guy was. Don't nit-pick. It's annoying.
[QUOTE=Thrilled;38176518]Everything I said was based off my personal understanding. I wasn't making a blunt statement or trying to correct others like this guy was. Don't nit-pick. It's annoying.[/QUOTE]
What's annoying is that someone thinks they can make a statement without showing proof, and expect someone else to show proof if said statement is challenged.
And basically what Jabberwocky said is correct from my understanding of it.
[IMG]http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/1/7/4/98174.jpg?v=1[/IMG]
From a Vietnam anti-war demonstration. (It may not shake the world, but doesn't it make you shake in your boots?)
[QUOTE=kaine123;38156772]I really don't think that humanity is really threatened by nuclear war anymore. The idea of mutually assured destruction pretty much means that nobody is willing to push the button.[/QUOTE]
too bad we dont stand on MAD anymore (even though it was ludicrous), if someone were to release the bomb, the world probably wouldnt do anything at all, in fear of everyone else retaliating with nuclear weaponry
[QUOTE=download;38160489]Most of Chernobyls casualties are from the reactors noble gas payload (a decay product in the reactor), a dirty bob wouldn't have that, further lowing causalities.
Ignoring that, any reasonably sized dirty bomb of any threat would be picked up a mile away and would be extremely bulky[/QUOTE]
also most of the chernobyl deaths were primarily from the workers clearing the highly radioactive roof, and the men who dug the tunnel underneath the reactor which was filled with concrete to prevent a china-syndrome reactor explosion, chernobyl wasnt a dirty bomb, it was a pile of molten radioactive slag
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gcA0ZuKGkI8/Sk42mtfpXZI/AAAAAAAACFI/YZEt1Qk5yWU/s400/img01.jpg[/img] [img]http://cdn.ph.upi.com/collection/pv/upi/4977/2823651011d60111c1da6e84379592f4/The-25th-anniversary-of-the-Chernobyl-disaster_1_1.jpg[/img]
i believe this was from a film producer who documented the chernobyl disaster nearly after it happened, and he died shortly after finishing the documentary
[QUOTE=Griffster26;38035080][IMG]http://niggaupload.com/images/XsgCM.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
and I was scared of jumping from 40 feet into the sea.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;38180194]-video-[/QUOTE]
Can I get more info on this?
[QUOTE=aliendrone123;38181468]Can I get more info on this?[/QUOTE]
[quote]Julius Robert Oppenheimer[note 1] (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967)[1] was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Enrico Fermi,[2][3] he is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons.[4] The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."[/quote]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer[/url]
its scary to think that the Second world war really did Finish with a big bang, its also scary to think what could mark the end of a third world war if it was to occur, what sortof weapon would have been developed and actually use at the time...
Many people were actually terrified of the tests, because one of the theories out there at the time was that the explosion would cause a chain reaction that would literally light all of the oxygen and hydrogen in the atmosphere and kill us all in a second
Guess we were comfortable with that level of risk :v:
Such a mentality was quite common during the cold war, especially during the Cuba crisis.
-snorpzilla-
I was referring to the post above yours. :v:
[QUOTE=DrasarSalman;38182920]I was referring to the post above yours. :v:[/QUOTE]
Oh derp
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[URL]http://imgur.com/4pcIw.jpg[/URL]
Russian Peasants getting electricity for the first time in 1920
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That's a quite impressive photo from the 1920. Most of the WWII era photos are black and white and much worse quality, and this has been taken inside.
eh i dont think that photo is from the 1920s, the stalin picture in the back is a giveaway, he would have been still consolidating power in the 1920s, plus it kinda looks like a war picture, and with the way the ussr was in its early years, it could be likely they didnt get electricity till after the war
corse i could be wrong and this could have just been a later colorised photo or some rare propaganda photo which was taken in color (or colored later)
[QUOTE=Maucer;38191515]That's a quite impressive photo from the 1920. Most of the WWII era photos are black and white and much worse quality, and this has been taken inside.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure the photo was recolored.
I know these are probably already in this thread
had to post them anyway, they're so awesome
Photos from 1910, Russia (in colour(!))
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p13_00004438.jpg[/img]
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p05_00004420.jpg[/img]
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p20_00003951.jpg[/img]
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p22_00020336.jpg[/img]
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p25_00021886.jpg[/img]
more here
[url]http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html[/url]
wow those photos are creepy knowing that the soldiers in a few of them probably died in the war,
ah reading up on that, those pictures have been remastered by the library of congress, who initialy colorised many in 2000
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Prokudin-Gorskii-22.jpg/694px-Prokudin-Gorskii-22.jpg[/img]
austro-hungry POWs
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[t]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p25_00021886.jpg[/t]
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I like this man's sense of style.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;38193510]I like this man's sense of style.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p06_00020154.jpg[/img]
idk i gotta go with this guy, he clearly knew that the 70s were gonna be about the afro
Even though they were re-colored, I always love seeing these pictures. Really brings the history to life.
[QUOTE=Sableye;38193288]eh i dont think that photo is from the 1920s, [img]the stalin picture in the back is a giveaway[/img], he would have been still consolidating power in the 1920s, plus it kinda looks like a war picture, and with the way the ussr was in its early years, it could be likely they didnt get electricity till after the war
corse i could be wrong and this could have just been a later colorised photo or some rare propaganda photo which was taken in color (or colored later)[/QUOTE]
Yeah no, that isn't Stalin.
I dunno who that is, but I know for sure that it's not Stalin.
It looks more like Trotsky than anything.
[QUOTE=The Maestro;38206337]Even though they were re-colored, I always love seeing these pictures. Really brings the history to life.[/QUOTE]
These aren't really recolored. He did these himself
[quote=ARTICLE]He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.[/quote]
Man I have seen some SHIT in the last thirty minutes or so I've been browsing this thread
makes me think twice about wanting to join the military one day
[img]http://i.imgur.com/A1VBR.jpg[/img]
Peruvian policeman who have been knocked off his horse by an angry mob, I honestly have no idea what happened to the guy.
The riots were because of a market in Lima, Peru being shut down by the authorities, making alot of workers there go nuts. I think the picture was taken yesterday or today.
holy shit
[img]http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://25.media.tumblr.com/si668v77RdtonfmkgoO2w23po1_500.jpg&sa=X&ei=6SmMUN7DEYHQiwLhxIHgAg&ved=0CAkQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNHCFwNDuTHDfStWzNmqFbnk8FpPZQ[/img]
Fascist Party Headquarters in Italy during the 30's
Looks like something out of the 60s batman
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