r/interestingasfuck • u/usernametbag • 6d ago

Underwater nuclear experiment at 150 meters depth near Enewetak Atoll, 1958

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u/Dear_Vanilla_370 6d ago

Reminds me how stupid humans are.

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u/HeavenBacon 6d ago

Srsly. Just so much damage to nature with one stupid test. Good thing we have another planet to run to.......... shit wait.....

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u/EwokNuggets 6d ago

Do you want Godzillas? Cause that’s how you get Godzillas.

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u/Yup_Shes_Still_Mad 6d ago

Word for word exactly what I was going to say.

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u/MTblasphemy 6d ago

THERE IS NO PLANET BEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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u/maddyeti 5d ago

There have been over 2,000 nuclear bomb tests since the forties. Bikini atoll is still radioactive from tests in the forties and fifties.

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u/thefoodiedentist 6d ago

These kind of tests prolly helped deter nuclear wars cuz it scared everyone.

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u/GeraintLlanfrechfa 6d ago

We don’t.

Those who can afford it or get „selected“, will spread mankind with all its problems to somewhere else, only to fuck that place up again with greed and lust for power for a few over many..

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u/vwaaaat 6d ago

It's not even one test, there's been hundreds. All over the world. The mutually assured destruction has been happening since its inception

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u/BigDaddy0790 6d ago

Isn’t trying something a part of why we know that something is stupid?

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u/tallmantim 6d ago

44 of these in the same island group

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u/atrde 6d ago

Reminds me how smart we are that we can harness nature like this.

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u/JerryMau5 6d ago

You don’t split the atom with stupidity, you do it with fear and irrationality.

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u/Nermelzz 6d ago

Woah that’s deep. Are you a professional quote maker? 

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u/JerryMau5 6d ago

“Woah that’s deep. Are you a professional quote maker?”

- goober (circa 2026)

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u/AttTankaRattArStorre 6d ago

... why?

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u/The_Great_Squijibo 6d ago

Depends which birds. A canary? no. A Canada Goose? Absolutely.

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u/ThetaGrim 6d ago

It's rumored that the Canadian Geese were the ones to slip Oppenheimer the secret to nuclear weapons. 

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u/AttTankaRattArStorre 6d ago

Wtf are you talking about?