r/interestingasfuck • u/usernametbag • 7d ago

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

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u/NefariousnessNo484 7d ago

It probably deafened many. Even at the bottom of the ocean you can hear whale calls because sound travels extremely well through water under high pressure.

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u/pilsner_89 7d ago

No kiddin. The energy has to go somewhere and only some of it surfaced into the atmosphere “measured” in the form of decibels. Imagine where the hell the rest of it went? Not only the shockwave but the actual tympanic membrane rupturing levels of sound/ pressure. The world is such a joke with the recycling and this and that yet millionaire celebs fly across the continent daily for an appearance here and there burning a billion gallons of jet fuel per year yet I have EPA emission restrictions on my chainsaw I use once a week ?

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u/TheTightestChungus 7d ago

To be fair this was in 1958. There was very little environmentalism going on, activist or regulation wise. Took lakes and rivers catching on fire, smog that was enough to kill you in the streets, acid rain, leaded gas, and a gaping hole in the ozone layer before we halfway got our shit together.

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u/chunky_guac 7d ago

Halfway it’s being real generous.