The never usually show that, the big ticket is the blast itself and not the boring detail of setting it up. But I know what you mean. Often times, all the work that went into something like these big events is more interesting. I have watched so many videos about Apollo preparations, how the astronauts were trained, the construction of the equipment for that reason. But for years I always wondered about this before learning of the sounding rockets. In pre-internet days, searching for answers was either difficult or very time consuming.

Honesty is the best policy !!!! BTW smoke rockets are used only in test detonations. In actual war they would not use them. Obviously . . . the rockets are useful only when high speed cameras are set up to record the event. Clearly that means they know ahead of time exactly WHEN the explosion will happen. In war that would be impossible.

@@piehound oh I know the US military would never deploy smoke rockets, especially considering most of the US nuclear stockpile is either ICBMs or SLBMs

@@tomstamford6837 there is just a very limited supply of nuke footage out there, same with meaningful volcanic eruptions, you just exhaust it very quickly, so it's always rad to see something new.

true

That's not my idea of fun.

Great COMMENT. In plain English. It gets so hot it can't get out of it's own way. Hotter than shit.💩💩💩

Detonation and energetics be like that.

r/theydidthemath

@@Invalidinput The other side of the coin. Thanks for augmenting my statement.

as you know, if there were some weird reaction where would be more smoke trails. i suggest a good and tiny book called: consider a spherical cow, made myself see world better as it is.

it's like graph papering the sky :D

I honestly thought it was lighting strikes, I just assumed that large of a thermal reaction caused some friction that needed to be released. The more ya know.

It creates a mushroom cloud That’s fucking sick

The lowest part of the rebounded wave nearly doubles the energy of the expanding ground wave…the rebounded energy combines with the original expanding wave at ground level. This is called a Mach wave and one of the reasons that airbursts have more lethal shock waves at ground level. Ground bursts provide more of a radioactive cloud, but less of a expanding shock wave. 😮

It seems like you’re describing the 20th century. An era of unprecedented research and advancements, unhampered by the whiny wokeism that’s currently damning the 21st century.

Supercomputers. Very big supercomputers.

I'm all for experiments, using the results to vaporize innocent civilian women, children, elderly and men is what doesn't sit quite right with me.

Simulations, hope and maintenance. I'm more interested how PEOPLE are recruited for the work, as it isn't taught in regular university classes.

In the case of North Korea, when the Soviet Union collapsed, there were a lot of scientists in Ukraine where a lot of the research was done, were suddenly without work. So, they went to work for North Korea. Taking decades of nuclear science with them. In the case of the USSR, they were working on their ownbprogram, but they got a huge headstart from information stolen from the US by spies. People like the Rosenburgs helped the program come along a great way like that. Those are the only two countries I can say with any assuredness how they developed nuclear weapons. But judging from the pattern, I think it's safe to say other nuclear powers that shouldn't have them like Israel and South Africa probably developed their weapons using stolen information. I'm pretty sure that the UK worked with the US to develop their weapons. And I have no clue how France got the bomb. They seem the least likely developed country to have nukes. Of course, there's a lot more to building nukes than just knowing how. One of the hardest parts is purifying uranium ore into weapons grade uranium-235. Which requires massive, extremely fast, extremely precisely built centrifuges made out of special, high strength metal alloys since they spin so fast that normal materials would just tear themselves apart. You need a lot of information and special materials just to process the uranium. Then making it into a bomb from there is actually fairly straight forward by comparison. But the materials and methods for making these centrifuges alone are not easy to get. Then you need people who know what they're doing. Just read about the accidents at los alamos while the US was developing their bombs. There was one incident in which a researcher had a vial of plutonium in liquid form explode in his face. Covering his face and inside of his mouth with what at the time was most of the plutonium that existed on the planet. Only a few ml. But you bet the government wanted their plutonium back. After all was said and done, dude had to process the plutonium out of his contaminated clothes, things in the room that were contaminated and bodily fluids, vomit and uring I believe. He never got any radiation siclness or poisoning from the plutonium. But he had a hefty enough dose that plutonium was detectable in his urine until he died. Oh yeah and there are the demon core incidents. Those are a classic.

Is that not wind?

Probably teleporting

It isnt wind, but it gives off the effect of such. It's very similar to how waves propagate through water.

the effect you see is not the smoke trail being displaced, but the compressed air in the wavefront acting as a lense that distorts the view on the smoketrail. those are the "hooks" you see. Distorting lense effects of supercompressed air.

@@jackcallahan1848 it's like wind in the way a handshake relates to a punch.

Kept you occupied daily didn’t it

Well said. I am one of the many.

I really want to watch a nuke go off

It’s designed to end humanity so 😐

@@enolopanr9820 No, they're designed to never be used

@@Surrenitie No, they're used as deterrence.

@@ultimaxkom8728 Precisely

It’s amazing.

...all in the service of mass murder.

Can you explain what you meant by black and white lines/rulers on high speed camera videos

@@sidv4615 of course! If you watch some high speed camera videos, especially ones where they want to show movement per frame (like a bullet), they may have a wall in the background with either a ruler or a set of black and white lines that are ruled equally (ie all of them are 1 inch long) so you can see how many inches it moves in a specific amount of time. So if the bullet has moved 3 inches in 5 seconds with a frame rate of 10,000 frames per second, you can use some algebraic equations to find out exactly how fast that bullet is moving. I’m not smart enough to do that math but that’s the long-and-short of how they can derive those numbers. SO with the nuclear bomb, if shockwave passes three of those smoke lines in 5 seconds at 10,000 frames per second, and those smoke lines are 100 feet apart, they can calculate the speed of the shockwave, or whatever else they want to measure. I hope that makes sense, please ask more questions if you need more info :)

I'll not take a moment, no

Me too, I thought "spoooky interaction" ! LOL

You knew what the magnetosphere was when you were 7 ? Ok Einstein

@@aztronomy7457 Keep in mind, this was back when we had channels like Discovery and TLC and they were still in "education mode", as opposed to today when we see the endgame of needing to appeal to wider audiences with shorter attention spans.

You were thinking about “magnetosphere” at 7 or 8 years old? Well damn! I was playing cowboys and Indians.😏

@@maxsparks5183 Pretty sure I didn't know the _word_ "magnetosphere" but I mean sure, by that age, everyone knows what magnets are, that the Earth is a kind of magnet in its own right, and that they tend to be illustrated (somewhat imprecisely) as having lines coming out of them in various directions.

You could fry an egg at.those temps, then again what egg?

​@@k2000kidd1There is a radius around a nuclear detonation where every pizza is cooked to perfection. Just something I thought I should share.

I 100% agree with everything you said

Hey man we will all get old one day at least you got to experience a nuclear bomb in the flesh! Not that I want to during my lifetime

Strapping explosive charged glasses to your face so you can look directly at the brightest thing humans have ever created and hopefully not go blind.

Of course many many specialist eyes watched and rewatched those videos for every nuance and glimmer that they could inform them of. Every facet and particle on each frame was being considered provisionally important.

SHOCKWAVE TRAIL METER BARRIER BUT THIS LOOK LIKE THE TRINITY RADIOACTIVE TRAIL. :3

same here, i did think it was some kind of reaction of the explosion, lightning or something.

You were not the only one

Thanks now I don't have to watch the video.

@@SungazerDNB🤣

thank you so much

Probably the producers that didn’t know what those lines were and didn’t bother to check it out

I love the way Feynman described it. Gravity is the weakest of the fundamental forces, it takes a whole planet to weigh you down. The forces we see in our everyday lives can shape the world in dramatic ways, but there is much more hidden beneath the surface. When you feel static electricity, that is the effect of an extremely minuscule amount of charge, accumulated by the triboelectric effect. When generating electricity, we humans concentrate a very small amount of electrons to do our bidding, the weight of the entire internet is akin to a strawberry. On very small scales, we can still see this power, when you touch something you are coming so close to it that its electric charge pushes back on you. However, the strong nuclear force is even stronger, but once again, its constituents are in numerical balance, hiding away the fact that extreme energy exists in all things. To unleash this power from only a dollar bill’s weight of fissile material created the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki. But everything everywhere stores this energy.

E=mc2. The energy contained in mass is gargantuan if released by nuclear fission or fusion. The multiplier c2 means you only need a small amount of mass liberation to produce extraordinary amounts of energy.

It's called the strong force.

That's easy: Male Insecurity. 🎉

​@@bold810 If only the birthing people were a fraction of our greatness.

And then there are all these children in the comments complaining about how it was "way too long" because everything needs to be a 7 second tik tok now.

Yes.

Maybe obvious for you, I had absolutely no idea

@@grindelston5968: I can understand that. How obvious a given thing is will greatly depend on the work/career/interests someone has. For myself looking at this from the outside, there can only be so many reasons for shooting giant lines of smoke trails just before a detonation. My initial thought was that displacement of the smoke itself by the initial pressure wave could give yield calculations. Which turned out to be true, but I had the underlying mechanism wrong. Or, to put it in real world context, you could think of my initial notion as the windsock at an airport. How much it's hanging and which direction tell you two important things: Wind speed and direction. Same kind of deal, except that initial guess was wrong.

He made up the x ray stuff, X ray machines have a sensor that detects the x rays that where blocked by the human body. You fathers eyes would never be able to do that and x rays are invisible to the human eye.

@@n1ckster055 I am not so sure. Gamma-rays can induce X-rays of lower energy, when they hit material. That is why we had lead-layers inside a cassette of X-ray sensitive film to photograph objects as part of an X-ray inspection. The lead would absorb the higher energy rays from outside and turn them into lower energies, as well as free electrons that would amplify the projected image on the film. In theory, a human eye is indeed insensitive to small wavelengths above the blue bandwidth into the ultraviolet, so that X-rays are certainly not triggering the retina as visible light does. But, gamma- and X-ray radiation may cause secondary radiation. I don't know as how this might have worked during a nuclear explosion though, I never thought of the ways that unintended projections of images may occur under those conditions.

@@n1ckster055 The trick we applied was this: we attached a stack of several cassettes onto an object that we were supposed to inspect. We set up a Co60 source or a linear accelerator opposite to the stack of cassettes, with the object in between. Inside each cassette was a different combination of either a single film of a certain speed, or the same film, but sandwiched between lead-layers (or even stainless steel in some cases). The cassette could therefore contain only one film, or multiple films of different speeds, either combined with amplifying layers, or without any amplifiers. The idea was to cover a multitude of different thicknesses that we had to inspect in a single exposure. That saved a lot of time and effort. Obviously, we only had to go through that kind of tedious effort in case of really thick steel objects. Smaller objects could be more conveniently inspected with a single paper-wrapped film, which was of a certain speed and was sandwiched between layers of 0.027 mm lead, deposited on paper. We used portable X-ray sources for that, or Ir192 radioactive sources, which were very mobile to deploy in the field.

@@n1ckster055 However, the light flash is intense enough to be able to be seen through human tissue. There are reports of such observations. Then there is X-ray fluorescence...

He also liked to tell whoppers. If x-rays let you see through things, you'd kind of notice that when getting a medical x-ray of your body or a cat scan.

Sounds like AI

well thanks for making me hungry : (

All those birds... I think you can see some of them in this video as white flashes appearing around the explosion 😢RIP little guys

What you are referring to is a ‘ground burst’. Air bursts are more efficient because you get increased blast radius with less lingering radiation. If you want to destroy a city entirely, do an air burst. If you want to destroy a city and leave it uninhabitable, do a ground burst.

@@zaynthebrayn thank you for letting me know. Deep down im sorry I asked.

@@zaynthebrayn air burts are good for getting the most of the blast energy aswell

@@zaynthebrayn More importantly, with an air burst you multiply the strength of the shockwave where it intersects with the ground - thus increasing the damage.

Or, they could have been some kind of Electromagnetic force manifested by the explosion.

Yeah. Immediately