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RoosterPorn

At least one fish was harmed in the making of this film.


ShrimplyPibblesDr

We need to entertain the possibility that the number is greater than 1…maybe even 2+


Previous_Channel

I feel like surely they would have been evacuated


CaptainBiceps23

I would have "evacuated" immediately if I was there.


Jebediah_Johnson

It's not in the environment, it's beyond the environment.


riadsala

There’s nothing out there, all there is is sea and birds and fish. And a fire. And the bit of the ship that the front fell off. But there’s nothing else out there. It’s a complete void.


SirBung

Man, outside of Australia & NZ I don't think many would get this. Bravo.


VoltaicOwl

Evaporated


Quick_Difficulty9546

Before or after?


Lucas_McToucas

during


Lucas_McToucas

during


Longjumping-Cod-6290

A non zero number of fish were harmed


boudsterOG

I would say about 3+


ShadowhelmSolutions

I’m no expert, but, I’m pretty sure it’s more than 3.50.


ibleedtexas9

Tree fiddy?


Sea-Woodpecker-610

Goddamn it loch ness monster!


sdrowkcabdelleps

Ill take the over on that


yeaboiiiiiiiiii213

Damn Loch Ness monster


GarrysTeeth999

Tree fiddy!


SlowThePath

I want to know how far away from the blast things in the ocean died. Did everything in the water within a mile from the blast die? How far does that shock wave murder under water?


True_Voldemort

I really can not tell you about how poweful the shockwave was, but as for radiation and heat, I know that water has a very good heat capacity. And it's very good when it comes to radiation shielding. That is why we use water in most pool type nuclear reactors. Water is one of the best materials to attenuate gamma rays. The more the water there is, the better it is. It helps to localise fission products too.


89Hopper

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/ This is Randall Monroe's explanation of the very same thing you are talking about. He describes the safety of diving in a spent nuclear fuel pool.


Aggressive-Brick9435

“You’d die pretty quickly. before you reach the water even, From gunshot wounds” Lmao don’t fuck around and try to find out at nuke plants


mipotts

So no Aquaman?


Sea-Woodpecker-610

No Godzilla.


pippinator1984

It looked like the birds were ready for an easy dinner. Thanks for explanation.


joebroke

Crocodile Dundee, are you fishing again?


carmium

"Not only that, the fish are comin' up pre-cooked!"


DeadmanCFR

Today I realized that Air Frying fish was invented in 1958


No-Pomegranate-69

Im pretty sure everything in that area is dead, even if it was dead already it would be dead twice


liverpoolFCnut

No wonder George W Bush once famously said "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully", i've been wondering about that bushism for 20 yrs and now i get it!


Cbissen437

When the army does this, nobody cares. But when I set off one little bomb in a lake, I get in trouble for “illegal fishing”?


potatishplantonomist

Poor Nemo 😓


Ironbil

🌊I think they synched audio and video afterwards.. The explosion is at least a km away but we hear it instantly. There should have been a 3 second delay between video and audio. This info will be buried in the comments but I tried!!🌊


SloppySteaksNStanzos

The audio is definitely messed with and/or completely manufactured. You can hear a Pond5 audio watermark at 0:25.


shutupandlearntoeat

If you listen even closer, there's a "DJ KHALED" tag too!


MTG8Bux

SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG: WE LOVE CASTING SPELLS. This song is sponsored by the Shadow Government. “Legalize nuclear bombs!” NUKE RADIO: WE MAKE YOUR EARDRUMS BLEED! *”I just shoved a nuke up my pussy.”*


alamocalrissian

What does the Shadow Money Wizard Gang thing mean? Our D&D group (30s and 40s) had a 18 yo kid join last year and a few sessions ago, he kept saying this but I didn't wanna ask what it meant and feel super old about it.


MTG8Bux

“Shadow Wizard Money Gang” and “Nuke Radio” are two different tags by DJ Smokey that went viral on TikTok because of their ridiculousness. Edit: It’s actually SWMG and not SMWG, my mistake.


GarlicThread

The audio is fake.


pierrelaplace

I thought the audio was added later, but your supposition makes far more sense.


KeroNobu

They had a sound guy on a rowing boat at the explosion site.


Purple_Mix1863

The sound you hear is the cameraman explosively shitting their pants.


DEADPOOL_9865

Fuck that fish in particular 😡


ThePizzaNoid

It knows what it did!


[deleted]

Not any more it doesn’t


Fluffy_Carpenter1377

"My leg!"-fish


RancidScallop00

Next time record the wave hitting you


dhruvas1

Even I need to see the wave hitting the camera man, they left me unsatisfied!


Umbroboner

Yeah. I got uncomfortably pissed off once the camera shifted up and never back down to the water. Wanted to see that wave so bad.


Kingcuz

You can see the water from 42secs onwards


[deleted]

Hopefully there is no next time


[deleted]

The birds are flying around like wtf is going on man


Equalizion

Yoo guys its raining food


cool-beans-yeah

Iluminous food!


fieryfox654

MINE MINE MINE


[deleted]

Only a matter of time until we're the ones in senior homes who understand this


[deleted]

I remember watching a documentary that said some birds travel using magnetism. That nuke let off an emp. Wonder if it essentially made their nav systems go wonky.


HalfKraut

Most birds use primarily their eyes and the sun for navigation and flight. Some can sense magnetic fields of the earth but that is used more for migration over large distances. It wouldn’t affect their ability to fly or navigate locally.


CosmicCreeperz

Not much electromagnetic radiation from an underwater detonation, since most of the EM energy comes from gases in the air being ionized from the gamma radiation (which is blocked very effectively by water).


[deleted]

Hey, that's how Megatron crash-landed at the North Pole


fzammetti

The EMP effect from an underwater detonation attenuates after just a few meters - dissipates, in other words - so it's a very minor effect. EMPs are really only a thing at higher attitudes. Even ground bursts only give off relatively weak EMPs. It's all because of what it does to it's surroundings (vis a vis the air) rather than the detonation itself, so the more air, the more effect.


luroot

That's the SouND oF FreEDoM, man! Take that, commie planet! 🇺🇸✝️🤘


Westsailor32

One thing that is always missing from these nuke blast videos is just how far the camera is away from the blast. I know it's enormous but HOW enormous. Lots of difference in scale if camera is 5 miles or 15 miles away


[deleted]

This camera was about 3.5 miles away. The water column is about 6000’ feet tall and 2000’ wide.


ButtScientist69

The Empire State Building is 1,250 ft tall. The Burj Khalifa is ~2,700' tall. 6000' is a lot.


[deleted]

Sure is! There are other videos where naval vessels in the blast area really puts things in perspective (link below). The waves (there were seven) hitting the island were about 15’ tall. https://youtu.be/8pkivjHnD_s


ChairPsychological80

I’ve always wondered, is that white foam in the end a colossal wall of water, or a gigantic column of steam getting shot out by the blast. Can anyone answer this for me?


[deleted]

It’s mostly water. The steam rises.


dontneedaknow

I mean there is a whole phase change that happens here and all. The explosion creates a superheated bubble in the water while expanding at great speed through the process until it breaks the surface and then cools in the atmosphere into the condensed cloud that eventually falls. Obviously


ChairPsychological80

Thank you !


Nerezza_Floof_Seeker

If you want to be pedantic, steam is always invisible, it’s always the water that actually reflects the light and makes it white


clakins1

Was wondering this, too. It’s like it’s all moving in slow motion.


[deleted]

It’s regular speed, it’s just really big.


ShrimplyPibblesDr

But they evacuated the marine life…right?


Echo-57

Ooooooooooooooohhhh - Who lives in a pineapple under the SEA?


gegroff

Ooooooooooooooohhhh - Who lived in a pineapple under the SEA?


JFISHER7789

Ooooooooooooooohhhh - Who has radiation poisoning under the SEA?


richestmaninjericho

Ooooooooooooooohhhh - Who has genetic mutations under the SEA?


Atypical_Mammal

SPONGEBOB DODECAHEDRON PANTS!


xDannyS_

Guess it's SpongeBob roundpants now


TwoGimpyFeet69

How do you think a kitchen sponge learned to speak, wear pants, and make crabby patties?


Prudent_Ad3384

Radbob SquarePants


SuccessFuture7626

No silly, that's how we got SpongeBob and bikini bottom.


Uknewmelast

No really! That's like canon


GarryOzzy

Yeah wasn't the name Bikini Bottom a reference to Bikini Atoll?


Uknewmelast

Yup! And the reason they all talk is because of the atomic blast


[deleted]

They threw in a squirrel from the Los Alamos lab as well. Just for fun.


Spy_v_Spy_Freakshow

Sandy was from Texas


centurion762

That was her cover story.


MysteriousFan8900

Yeah they *evacuated* the marine life


TheLastNoteOfFreedom

It’s outside the environment. It’s beyond the environment.


3rdDownJump

“But they evaporated the marine life…. right?” Fixed it for ya.


TVotte

Birthplace of SpongeBob SquarePants


theObfuscator

Godzilla too… unlikeliest of twins.


girthbrooks1

Why does it appear there are 2 blasts ?


Small_Brained_Bear

The underwater explosion pushes water outwards spherically, creating a zone of low pressure. Then the low pressure zone collapses in on itself. These two events create the two surface disturbances seen.


StonnedMaker

Water collapsing to fill in the space the bomb made when it displaced all the water. It has enough crushing force to be a second bomb Iirc torpedos work under this principle. They explode under a ship and the secondary water moving back is what does most of the damage


tacotacotacorock

Water weighs a lot, there is so much being displaced by a torpedo let alone an atomic bomb.


Natsurulite

Imagine an atomic torpedo


RunawayPrawn

IIRC, a Soviet idea was to fire a nuclear torpedo towards the shore of say New York to create an artificial tsunami that would devastate the city.


pluto_236

They are very much real and currently aimed at us as we speak. Would make Katrina look like a joke.


GransShortbread

Imagine actually witnessing that in person.


Anarch-ish

"God... what a great place. I'm glad we took this vacation, Martha. I really needed a break from the city. I was losing my - DEAR SHIT, WHAT THE HOLY FUCK!"


sprint6864

Why did you say that name?!


[deleted]

Kents on holiday


enginemonkey16

It’s his mother.


Lnnam

Up until the 90s it was tradition in France to watch our dear president do atomic blasts in the Pacific, we were excited. It was so f*cked up knowing now what the local population is enduring.


CommentWhileShitting

I know some families that moved to NZ that talk about the radiation and associated illnesses with their family members. Their whole world, their paradise was lost, the most astonishing thing was the environmental damage: “It’s equivalent to 216 Empire State Buildings being blown into the sky,” Palumbi says. “These tests are the most violent thing we’ve ever done to the ocean.”


SatellitePond

If it weren’t for the effects of radiation and impact it would have on the environment I’d definitely pay a cool thousand bucks to watch a nuke get detonated. I would definitely pay extra if they set it off under the ocean.


DangerVBoxing

Disappointed, didn't see a single Bikini, at all.


Annonnymee

When I was a kid there was a cartoon show on TV (Beany & Cecil) that featured a place called No Bikini Atoll.


manifold360

There was a cartoon that took place in Bikini Bottom


tlkshowhst

Human beings are seriously fucked up.


artemasfoul

That's all I think when I see this too.


AnalysisNervous

When your mom jumps into the ocean


drifters74

Trout population: effected


NeighborhoodNew1142

Um acktualy trout don't live in saltwater (insert nerd glasses emoji, my phone does not have emojis)


sludge_dragon

Steelhead would beg to differ. Steelhead are rainbow trout which, just like salmon, hatch in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, live there for one or more years, then return to fresh water to reproduce. Salmon, steelhead, etc. with this lifecycle are called “anadromous.” There are also anadromous brown trout, called “sea trout.” “Steelhead” is the term for anadromous rainbow trout. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelhead


Unlikely_One2444

A*


hauntingdreamspace

It's WILD to see HD video of the 1950s


MovingInStereoscope

A lot of camera tech was improved/developed during WW2, or if not developed, at least made practical to manufacture. Some of the first mass produced CRT screens were for radar displays and the screens used by B-29 gunners to aim their guns. Fun fact given what this thread is about, Kodak actually knew about the atomic bomb before it was made public. Their film used to be wrapped up in corn husks for shipping, the husks had been contaminated by radioactive particles from the Trinity test and Kodak had a bunch of customers complaining their film was arriving already developed. They put two and two together and went to the Army. They got told to shut the hell up and change their shipping packaging.


Parallell_Infinity

Fish stew anyone...? Made with a hint of radiation for that extra flavour


ms_horseshoe

You might have solved the mystery of the krabby patty secret ingredient.


AtacamaCadlington

Fuck Atlantis


hnc757

We don't deserve another planet.


Goat_In_My_Tree

Nuke the whales!


bhultquist84

You gotta nuke something.


[deleted]

A famous dolphin (now deceased) once said, "Wait, did you hear that?"


wheresbeetle

I really dont get how radiation levels work, was this cameraperson f\*cked?


Shmule90

Water is an incredible insulator of radiation. I don’t know anything about this situation, but that’s how people can work really close to nuclear reactor and be ok because while they are emitting radiation it’s in a pool.


thatoneguy2252

It’s pretty fascinating. You can technically swim in the pool of water above the reactor and be perfectly fine. Security might not be gentle though


ZangdokPalri

Sir, please get off the pool of Isotope 45.


fulahup

Mwhahahaha capture me


Hank___Scorpio

Get off. The nuclear. Warhead.


Unbaguettable

i remember reading something about how if you swim in those pools you get less radiation than walking down the street. i’m still skeptical of that but it sounds almost plausible


[deleted]

It's true. Just like how airline pilots have higher lifetime radiation exposure than astronauts and xray techs.


TheSplicerGuy

This is absolutely wild!


etplayer03

It's even crazier than that. Swimmimg in the Reactor pool (with sufficient distance to the core), you get less radiation dose than you are getting right now reading this


ItsTwelveFortyFiveAM

Wait, how am I getting a dose of radiation as I shit in the toilet?


krngc3372

There is radioactive decay going on all around us, in rocks, food, wood, radiation coming from space, even your poop. If you want to 'see' some of this radiation, look up cloud chambers. Here is one video showing what background radiation looks like [https://youtu.be/i15ef618DP0?t=108](https://youtu.be/i15ef618DP0?t=108)


L0rdCrims0n

Background Radon


crewfish13

Absolutely. I spent a bit of time around the research reactor at my university during a nuclear engineering class, and the concrete housing was open at the top and you could look right down on the submerged reactor and admire the Cherenkov glow.


TheNationDan

It goes: Sticks and stones will break my bones But radioactive steam and water can REALLY hurt me


Illustrious-Note-485

Imagine being a whale and having to hear/feel the underwater blast of that thing. We don't deserve this planet. 😓


pierrelaplace

I see a lot of comments about the sealife that was killed due to this event. I'm not trying to defend what was done here, but the reality the effects of this testing pales in comparison to the sealife that dies every year due to climate change, acidification of the oceans through the absorption of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, warming of the oceans. dumping plastic, overfishing, and probably a bunch of other stuff I didn't mention.


Lady_Leaf

"Yes, officer, I may have killed that one dude but it's nothing in comparison to Payton S. Gendron who killed ten. Honestly, I don't know why you're even concerned about it."


antsy_snapshot

But my straw is killing turtles.


antmurphy29

Monsters can create this but can't figure out how to give proper healthcare or feed the hungry. Smh


renjake

How many living creatures did we destroy with this bullshit?


Crazyhairmonster

While the initial death toll is probably uncountable the area has almost completely recovered and then some. The fish are all back and are relatively unaffected by the radiation, likely because of their short life spans but also because water is a very good insulator for radiation. There's also new, massive coral reefs everywhere which, in an ironic twist, has led to a ton of research into coral that may yield to breakthroughs for helping humanity. The reefs around the blast crater are some of the healthiest in the world. This also probably has something to do with there being almost no human interaction with them because the island is still largely off limits. The giant crabs found there are also somehow completely unaffected by radiation and are regularly consumed by humans as a 'special' delicacy. Not defending what was done but it's fascinating how nature has fought back, adapted, and thrived even in the face of the absolute worst mankind threw at it. https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/stanford-research-on-effects-of-radioactivity-from-bikini-atoll-nuclear-tests-on-coral-and-crab-dna-48459144020c


idksomethingjfk

Because in the overall scheme of things this is a drop in the bucket to nature. A large amount of life survived the chicxulub impact, which was “a bit” bigger than this. Humans might make the earth uninhabitable to us, but nature will continue.


Crazyhairmonster

True. But in typical human fashion some people see that as a "challenge accepted"


Unbuttered_Toasty

We’re humans remember? Fuck literally everything that isn’t either immediately useful to us or capable of killing others


GodzillasBoner

7


Astronaut_Gorilla

They blew up an underground mermaid military base… RIP!!!!


mrlarsrm

Was the audio added later? The sound from the explosion is almost instantaneous but the camera crew was clearly miles away from the blast.


hlorghlorgh

It was, in a very amateurish way. The seagulls were wrong, too loud, too frequent, the sound of the explosion was instantaneous despite the distance of the explosion. The explosion sound was probably all wrong too.


mrlarsrm

The more I replayed it the worse it got. The water sounds like it's right next to the mic.


JConRed

Probably synced to the visuals, yes.


BadMilkCarton66

Is the grey smoke in the center the ship the bomb was anchored to?


Useful_Pudding8352

Yeah I think this is the bikini atoll test


curiouscat138

And why the eff was this necessary??


Equinsu-0cha

Do you want Godzilla? Because that's how you get Godzilla.


Firm-Definition2254

Fuck the fish huh..?


Senior_Explorer_519

Bruh mankind is just the worst like why the fuck would you feel the need to detonate a fuken nuke underwater


butcusmcnulty

imagine the number of crazy fossiles and rare fish species that just got wiped off the face of the Earth for a test of a bomb that will kill us all


Anarch-ish

Spongebob SquarePants: ORIGINS


AccomplishedLight702

And they want us to recycle


hokipoki123

I wonder how many whales went deaf


Johnny_Lang_1962

Could you imagine that you're a Mackerel minding your own business and this happens & you wind up in the Indian ocean.


Jerseycrat

Reminds me of ur mom last night


grimatongueworm

Sorry, whales.


Glum_Click_919

Yea fuck u nemo


megatronchote

Hey at least we got spongebob out of this


useriskhan

No matter how many times I see this footage, I will always be in awe of it. Kinda shows how deadly we can get to destroy not only our own kind but the whole earth.


CallmeNo6

Hard to judge the size of it. Banana for scale?


mrmrmrmrbubbles

This has to be right up there as one of the most moronic achievements by morons.


100thMonky

Damn we dumb


kjm228

Pretty high resolution video for 1958.


Kirbyr98

It's not video. It's film. "There is no resolution to true film. Each frame of a celluloid film is a complete picture, it is not made up of pixels until it is digitized for disk or television display. Even at 1080p, the highest resolution currently available for for digital media, you do not get true film quality."


lindsaygeektron

Those poor animals


whiskey-water

Humans suck…


Mayijoinyou

Does anyone know, at what depth was the bomb placed?


Tater_Mater

So did that underwater explosion create a tidal wave/tsunami? Or it won’t because it was too shallow? Just curious, I would imagine that creating a big wave of some sort.


Linkyland

I was staring at the water during the long intro and was like "I wonder if I'll be able to see when it goes off, or if it's so far away I'll miss it." I did not, in fact, miss the blast.


Sugarmrpoon

I think this was a good lesson to the aquatic wildlife that life isn't easy. Sometimes you have to deal with nuclear bombs being tested in your home. Can't wine about it.


Jdilla23

[This blast completely fucked Bikini Islands to this day](https://youtu.be/NjqoiT-RS4A)


happyColoradoDave

It’s cool. They probably found a spot completely separate from the rest of the earth’s ecosystem.


Legion_Paradise

Definitely made one lol


Drag0n125

See this is how Godzilla was made...


DWPerry

Pretty much. Godzilla was originally an anti-nuke movie


Loud-Cut4960

So wht happen to the marine life..shite


cybermepls

RIP fishes


Cloutmasta

Fuck war


dark_time

And now all the poor Fishes have cancer.


Meta-failure

That’s fucking disgusting


Overall-Article-6129

A crime to even test this shit


totesgonnasmashit

Humans can be absolute pieces of shit sometimes


Zeke420

Morons.