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Wow, I wonder who this indie rockstar is?
[sp]It's Grant Kirkhope, the composer of classic game music :V[/sp]
[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;45013436]Kunar Province photos[/QUOTE]
My brother was stationed at an outpost there a few years ago. That was probably the exact same outpost. They got shot at pretty often there, usually by some farmer the Pakistani insurgents paid to sit up on the ridge with a rifle and take pot shots at them.
Sometimes there'd be a mortar tube up there with a shell over the top of it frozen in ice, which would melt in the daytime and launch the mortar at the outpost with nobody around to launch it. He did get wounded there, but people rarely ever were killed.
Beautiful landscape, too bad it was usually hot as shit.
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[I]Herman Goerring and 34 others like this.[/I]
[B]Ava Braun[/B] cutie!! love the stockings
[B]Joseph Stalin[/B] nice instagram filter faggot
[B]Winston Churchill[/B] knob
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duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude
[editline]6th June 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;44999258]The 1964 world expo. I love the 60s vision of 'World of Tomorrow' It looked so damn cool.[/QUOTE]
The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2015"]next world expo[/URL] starts in 1st of may next year, in Milano. You should come
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earth's produce
the inspiration for COD's cpt. price came from this film, A bridge too far
[img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01726/film_1726100f.jpg[/img]
[quote]An East German soldier helps a boy over the barbed wire on the East-West border. After this, the soldier was replaced and his fate is unknown.[/quote]
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[QUOTE=godfatherk;45017831][img]http://i.imgur.com/83iN7jV.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
that's quite possibly the best looking chunk of pyromorphite ever
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On the subject of cool minerals, I have a couple of chunks of bismuth lying around.
[img]http://puu.sh/9iwDp/f670a56fa5.jpg[/img]
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Anyone seen Stibnite before?
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Looks cool right? You probably wouldn't want one of these things in your house though, they're incredibly toxic.
[QUOTE=Qaus;45023283]Looks cool right? You probably wouldn't want one of these things in your house though, they're incredibly toxic.[/QUOTE]
You can't tell me what I should and shouldn't have. I will build a house out of it just to spite you now.
[QUOTE=Qaus;45023283]You probably wouldn't want one of these things in your house though, they're incredibly toxic.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a great reason to have one handy. That way you can poison burglars.
[QUOTE=Tomo Takino;45023297]You can't tell me what I should and shouldn't have. I will build a house out of it just to spite you now.[/QUOTE]
You'll probably die within 24 hours of handling the stuff without washing yourself and drinking a shit-ton of water. It'll also be pretty painful too, what with convulsive seizures (lockjaw maybe) and loss of motor functions and senses.
Wikipedia lists it as just 'potentially toxic'. Not sure where you got it being incredibly dangerous from.
[QUOTE=MadBomber;45022856]On the subject of cool minerals, I have a couple of chunks of bismuth lying around.
[img]http://puu.sh/9iwDp/f670a56fa5.jpg[/img]
[img]http://puu.sh/9iwHG/d910de4397.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Walking home some guy bumps into me and instantly starts chatting shit to my face about Bismuth being the best mineral. I tried to stay calm and explained to him that native copper was actually the best mineral, but he wouldn't take a hint. He started throwing around words like 'superconducting transition temperatures.' and I lost it. Punched him right in his Bismuth-loving face.
I hate Bismuth so much.
auxiliary pics: my mineral makes a cooler shape that yours edition
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Observing a nuclear test, probably around the Bikini Atoll. Apparently this is the 5th largest nuke the US ever toyed with.
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There's something creepy about photos of space without stars.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45023555][img]http://i.imgur.com/Oq9Fn9B.jpg[/img]
Observing a nuclear test, probably around the Bikini Atoll. Apparently this is the 5th largest nuke the US ever toyed with.[/QUOTE]
Nukes are kinda unreal, they feel like they should be way above our current technology.
Like, compare the biggest non-nuclear bomb we have conceived to the biggest nuclear bomb. I bet the gap would be astronomical.
[QUOTE=booster;45024306]Nukes are kinda unreal, they feel like they should be way above our current technology.
Like, compare the biggest non-nuclear bomb we have conceived to the biggest nuclear bomb. I bet the gap would be astronomical.[/QUOTE]
The largest confirmed single bomb yield is the MOAB (I think) at 11t. The Russian made FOAB claims a yield of 44t, though this is not really confirmed. But if we go with that, that'd still be about a [del]thousand[/del] million times smaller than the Tsar Bomba.
wasn't the Tsar bomba smaller than it was supposed to be at first? I want to remember reading that somewhere.
[QUOTE=Toyhobo;45024372]wasn't the Tsar bomba smaller than it was supposed to be at first? I want to remember reading that somewhere.[/QUOTE]
The yield of the final Tsar Bomba was about half its intended yield, yeah.
I think the scientists cited something along the lines of "too much would get rekt".
For reference, the real Tsar Bomba was capable of literally flattening most of Manhattan. The intended design was capable of giving third-degree burns to everyone in the state of Connecticut.
[QUOTE=Pilotguy97;45024397]"too much would get rekt".[/QUOTE]
Straight A wisdom right there.
[QUOTE=Toyhobo;45024372]wasn't the Tsar bomba smaller than it was supposed to be at first? I want to remember reading that somewhere.[/QUOTE]
Yes.
[quote]
[b]The initial three-stage design was capable of yielding approximately 100 Mt, but it would have caused too much radioactive fallout.[/b]
It has been estimated that detonating the original 100 Mt design would have released fallout amounting to about 25 percent of all fallout emitted since the invention of nuclear weapons. Hence, the Tsar Bomba was an impractically powerful weapon. It was decided that a full 100 Mt detonation would create too great a risk of nuclear fallout, as well as a near certainty that the release plane (and crew) would be destroyed before it could escape the blast radius.[/quote]
It was the single most physically powerful device ever used by mankind, upon detonation atmospheric focusing caused blast damage at great distances, breaking windows all the way in Norway and Finland which is about a 1200km away from ground zero.
Take into account the bomb wasn't even detonated on the ground, but rather mid-air (most of the energy was not converted to seismic waves), and the fact that only 50Mt of the planned 100Mt was detonated, makes it fucking terrifying to even comprehend the damage that would have been caused by the fully-planned yield.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Ivan_bomb.png[/img]
This is where the bomb was detonated. The island itself is massive, it stands to reason that had the full-scale version of the Tsar was detonated, it'd erase/submerge half of the (55,200 km2) island. The shockwaves would have probably dislodged massive glaciers in the North Pole, as well as reaching all the way to the US via strong seismic waves.
[QUOTE=Melnek;45024465]Yes.
It was the single most physically powerful device ever used by mankind, upon detonation atmospheric focusing caused blast damage at great distances, breaking windows all the way in Norway and Finland which is about a 1200km away from ground zero.
Take into account the bomb wasn't even detonated on the ground, but rather mid-air (most of the energy was not converted to seismic waves), and the fact that only 50Mt of the planned 100Mt was detonated, makes it fucking terrifying to even comprehend the damage that would have been caused by the fully-planned yield.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Ivan_bomb.png[/img]
This is where the bomb was detonated. The island itself is massive, it stands to reason that had the full-scale version of the Tsar was detonated, it'd erase/submerge half of the (55,200 km2) island. The shockwaves would have probably dislodged massive glaciers in the North Pole, as well as reaching all the way to the US via strong seismic waves.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;Pu88gb1EpmI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu88gb1EpmI[/video]
[QUOTE=Gen. Crumpets;45024497]Didn't it also break windows in finland and sweden?
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[QUOTE=Melnek;45024465]
It was the single most physically powerful device ever used by mankind, upon detonation atmospheric focusing caused blast damage at great distances, [b]breaking windows all the way in Norway and Finland which is about a 1200km away from ground zero.[/b] [/QUOTE]
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well shit, bad reading on my part
thats still p. terrifying though
The fact that the human race has developed weapons that could destroy entire nations with such ease scares me.
The thing that really seperates nuclear weapons from conventional explosives for me is just how god damn huge and menacing the mushroom clouds they leave behind are.
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The clouds are so pretty though, too bad they represent only death and destruction.
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