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The Ghostly Legacy of Hiroshima Has Finally Been Discovered in Physical Form
Science Alert ^ | 05/14/2019 | PETER DOCKRILL

Posted on 05/14/2019 8:28:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin

In 2015, retired geologist and marine ecologist Mario Wannier was examining samples of beach sand collected from Japan's Motoujina Peninsula, just 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) south of Hiroshima's hypocentre, or ground zero.

Primarily, Wannier and fellow researcher Marc de Urreiztieta were looking for traces of microscopic organisms called foraminifera in the sediment, but that's not all they found.

These strange glass spherule particles – some of which resemble the kind of glassy debris ejected into the atmosphere during meteorite impacts – are estimated to constitute up to 2.5 percent of all the sand in the beaches around Hiroshima.

Wannier ended up collecting some 10,000 samples of this unusual grit, which were examined by researchers at the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, using electron microscopy and X-ray analysis.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: hiroshima
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(Wannier et al., Anthropocene, 2019)
1 posted on 05/14/2019 8:28:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
But what happened to the actual city when it was consumed in its awful, unforgettable fire?
devastation at a scale not seen before
one of humankind's darkest hours

Yup, no bias there. Still trying to lay a guilt trip on America after all these years.

2 posted on 05/14/2019 8:34:51 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


3 posted on 05/14/2019 8:39:00 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
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To: Oatka

“The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold.” - Harry S. Truman, August 6, 1945.


4 posted on 05/14/2019 8:39:26 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: BenLurkin
If Soylent Green is people, so too are glass spherules. Right?

Sorry, this is where my mind goes.

5 posted on 05/14/2019 8:39:57 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Oatka

Yeah, because absent dropping 2 big ones, the Battle of Japan that would’ve killed millions of American servicemen AND Japanese civilians would’ve been SO much better for “humankind.”


6 posted on 05/14/2019 8:40:19 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
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To: Oatka

I don’t read it that way. Surely the instant death of over 100,000 human beings by incineration and the ejection of all their physical artifacts into the stratosphere was not a cheery moment in human history. An objective observer -— the hypothetical Martian -— would see it as evidence of some colossal trauma.


7 posted on 05/14/2019 8:42:00 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: BenLurkin

No other logical explanation ... well, since the article tells us these are usually found at metorite impact sites, have they ruled that out or simply made an assumption based on locale?


8 posted on 05/14/2019 8:42:36 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#Dregs #DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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To: Oatka

The Japanese of WWII were extremely barbaric and fanatical. The people that write this garbage are ignorant sloth toe sludge.


9 posted on 05/14/2019 8:43:56 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder... Could any of that debris have come from the 520 Atmospheric atomic and nuclear test done between 1954 to 1992?


10 posted on 05/14/2019 8:46:52 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: BenLurkin

The Japanese started fighting WWII in 1938 and frequently used biological and chemical weapons. They started it, wr finished it.


11 posted on 05/14/2019 8:47:53 AM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Your ‘Martians’ are selectively dull? Any observer capable of star to star travel would see the bigger picture of World War 2.Anthropomorphizing ‘Martians’ is obtuse at best.


12 posted on 05/14/2019 8:48:47 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: carcraft

I have family that died fighting those people.

So yeah, I don’t feel too much guilt about my people using a bigger weapon to end the war. They would have used it on us if they’d gotten if first. Same with the Nazis.

War is Hell. Don’t start one, won’t BE one.


13 posted on 05/14/2019 8:48:50 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: exnavy
The Japanese started fighting WWII in 1938

They invaded Manchuria in 1931.

14 posted on 05/14/2019 8:48:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oatka
devastation at a scale not seen before one of humankind's darkest hours

Yeah...the Nanking Massacre was a picnic, right?


15 posted on 05/14/2019 8:49:35 AM PDT by montag813
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To: NFHale

It saved a lot more Japanese lives than American lives.

Also, saved Japan from a Korea-like Civil War.


16 posted on 05/14/2019 8:49:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Yeah, because absent dropping 2 big ones, the Battle of Japan that would’ve killed millions of American servicemen

Not to mention that the Soviet would have been more than happy to offer their "assistance".

17 posted on 05/14/2019 8:52:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oatka

Bah, that’s nothing. Soft-pedalled, compared to some of the stuff I’ve seen in University student publications. Those generally find a way to refer to Harry S. Truman as a “War Criminal” at least twice per article. It almost seems to be some kind of requirement. :P


18 posted on 05/14/2019 8:52:33 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: BenLurkin

“We invented Japanese bbq.” Harry S Truman.


19 posted on 05/14/2019 8:52:56 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: carcraft

Nothing but unorganized grab-ass-tic pieces of amphibian shi+!


20 posted on 05/14/2019 8:53:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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