bombs
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This Is How A Bombing Run Looks Through A B-52’s Bomb Bay Doors
Video: Watching 14.5 tonnes of explosives fall on this tiny little island is awe-inspiring — unless you are some animal living in that island, that is. Then it’s pretty terrible. Sometimes it surprises me how something as horrible as this raw destruction power fascinates humans so much.
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The Megaton Floor Lamp Is Built From A Real Bomb
The US military is still inundated with obsolete and unusable ordnance from as far back as the beginning of the Cold War. But rather than simply dispose of these old bombs by, say, blowing them up, one enterprising design studio is transforming them into helpful house wares.
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How Nuclear Bombs Tell Us The Age Of Human Cells
When mushroom clouds exploded in the sky during Cold War-era nuclear bombs testing, they also created an unexpected boon for science. The nuclear explosions caused a massive uptick in Carbon-14 that eventually settled in all living tissue — everything from tree rings to elephant tusks to human brain cells.
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Guy Builds A Bomb Just With Stuff You Can Buy After Airport Security
Just in case you were still being fooled into thinking that the TSA is good for, well, anything, follow along with YouTube contributor Terminal Cornucopia as he constructs a home-made “FRAGGuccino” from stuff you can buy from airport terminal kiosks — you know the ones you can enter after passing through security.