Posted on 07/16/2021 9:10:59 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Spectators were also holding “watch-the-bomb parties” in Hawaii, as the countdown was broadcast over shortwave radio. Photographers aimed their lenses toward the horizon and debated the best camera settings for capturing a thermonuclear explosion in outer space. It turned out that the blast—a 1.4 megaton bomb, 500 times as powerful as the one that fell on Hiroshima—was not subtle.
“When that nuclear weapon went off, the whole sky lit up in every direction. It looked like noon,”
“It looked as though the heavens had belched forth a new sun that flared briefly, but long enough to set the sky on fire,” according to one account in the Hilo Tribune-Herald. An accompanying electromagnetic pulse washed out radio stations, set off an emergency siren, and caused streetlights to black out in Hawaii.
I told my dad years later, ‘You know, if I knew I was going to become a nuclear weapon physicist, I would have paid more attention,’” he says.
There is no mushroom cloud or double flash. People on the ground don’t feel a shock wave or hear any sound. There’s just a bright ball of plasma
This unexpected “Starfish belt,” which lingered for at least 10 years, destroyed Telstar 1, the first satellite to broadcast a live television signal, and Ariel-1, Britain’s first satellite.
The largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded, called the Carrington Event, hit Earth in 1859. It caused auroras over Australia and gave electrical shocks to telegraph operators in America.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalgeographic.com ...
—”I would have liked to have seen that!”
Fun question!
This was the first one that popped up, four reports...ONE HOUR AND TEN MINUTES...
0800062 - Starfish Prime Test Interim Report by Commander JTF-8; Fishbowl Auroral Sequences - Silent; Dominic on Fishbowl Phenomenon -Silent; Fishbowl XR Summary - Silent - 1962 - 1:01:25 - Black&White and Color - Four Films on One Video
SEARCH ON: starfish prime test... many...
—”when not encumbered by “
That was long ago and far away...
Bump
Wet cell batteries
—”Enter your email address to continue reading”
Try reading the first reply?
Might help, but difficult to say in your case.
Guessing that you are a FAKE Nigerian American!
Nigerian Americans are the most educated group in the United States. And I was privileged to have worked with some.
Clearly, you are not of that group.
good for four articles a month
Wouldn’t that cause an EMP?
eataweenie@biden.com works.
Closer to home...
“It looked as though the heavens had belched forth a new sun that flared briefly, but long enough to set the sky on fire,” according to one account in the Hilo Tribune-Herald. An accompanying electromagnetic pulse washed out radio stations, set off an emergency siren, and caused streetlights to black out in Hawaii.
—”Wouldn’t that cause an EMP?”
It kind of looks like it?
“It looked as though the heavens had belched forth a new sun that flared briefly, but long enough to set the sky on fire,” according to one account in the Hilo Tribune-Herald. An accompanying electromagnetic pulse washed out radio stations, set off an emergency siren, and caused streetlights to black out in Hawaii.”
Depaywall and anonimize using archive.vn
There you go. Full article, no tracking. Works on almost all paywalls as well.
I did me@yousuck.com
Just copy the URL and paste into outline.com and read the whole article. That’s what I did.
I played softball with a cheapass leftwing lunatic who died a couple years ago. I've saved his email address for occasions just like this........LOL!
I don't miss the fool one bit but at least he was finally good for something........
He once tried to argue that communism was the perfect form of government so after that conversation, I enrolled him in every Marxist website I happened to come across.......
“Once” is incorrect...
Typical crap journalism...
trumpwon@whitehouse.gov worked for me.
I put in something bogus and it did not follow up.
Wow, I tried f***you@aol.com and it didn’t work. Too strong? Maybe I did it wrong.
Today
Heh let’s set off a nuclear (or nucular if you are related to George W Bush) bomb in space, just to see what happens?
Ugh, no, we might destroy the atmosphere, earth, the universe... maybe not the best idea.
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