the beginning of the end of the world

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images taken with specialized photography of the first few micro-seconds of a nuclear blast.

i am too lazy and grumpy today to find more relevant info for you (sorry). but these are sitting on my drive and it feels like the right day to post them up.

have a great weekend everyone!

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Here’s some more info:

https://interestingengineering.com/science/filming-the-first-milliseconds-of-a-nuclear-explosion-with-the-rapatronic-a-1950-engineering-marvel

It was captured by a special camera called a Rapatronic, a camera system able to take photographs at a frame rate of 10 million frames per second.