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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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"The Situation Room"
President Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, Secretary Of Defence Robert Gates, Secretary Of State Hilary Clinton and various other high-ranking White House and United States Military Officials watch live updates of 'Operation: Neptune Spear', or the US Navy SEAL raid upon the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama Bin Laden was believed to be hiding. The end result was that the world's most wanted man was killed by the Navy SEALS.
It is believed that this photograph was taken at the moment Bin Laden was killed (hence the expressions on Obama's and Clinton's faces).0 -
"The Situation Room"
President Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, Secretary Of Defence Robert Gates, Secretary Of State Hilary Clinton and various other high-ranking White House and United States Military Officials watch live updates of 'Operation: Neptune Spear', or the US Navy SEAL raid upon the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama Bin Laden was believed to be hiding. The end result was that the world's most wanted man was killed by the Navy SEALS.
It is believed that this photograph was taken at the moment Bin Laden was killed (hence the expressions on Obama's and Clinton's faces).
Check out all the achievements that the guy in blue has!0 -
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Check out all the achievements that the guy in blue has!
You can get most of just for showing up for work in the morning.
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Pierce_1991 wrote: »I really love that photo of Obama and co. Such a fantastic image to capture. Can you imagine similar situations being captured in history like that? Churchill watching D Day unfold or Truman viewing the bombing of Hiroshima. Seeing defining moments in the eyes of the puppeteers.
there are many better versions in an old photo comp thread
the newspaper posted after is pretty shocking though0 -
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Starved peasants line the streets as pedestrians walk by. Untold millions were starved in a famine genocide in the Ukrainian Holodomor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor0 -
China Air pollution
^^Meet Mike
Ah Nets, it'll be grand so.Almost two years after the awful nuclear disaster occurred, a fish caught near Fukushima on Friday January 18th had a record-breaking level of radioactive contamination over 2500x the legal limit. TEPCO measured 'Mike the Murasoi' at 254,000 becquerels per kilogram (with the limit for edible seafood at 100 becquerels).
As Le Monde reports, the previous record (caught on August 21st 2012) was a mere 25,800 becquerels/kg. As further precautions, TEPCO is installing new nets 20km around the Fukushima Daichi site to avoid highly contaminated fish gettig too far and being consumed by other species. While Mike's family are no doubt distraught (at him being caught and being so radioactive), it appears (somewhat disappointingly) that there is no apparent third eye, lazer fins, legs, or other 'expected' 'blinky' malformations.
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This puppy is the biggest bomb ever builtBig Ivan, better known as Tsar Bomba, was 57 Megatons of Soviet might. That's 1,400 times Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined and ten times the entire combined fire power expended in WWII. At 27 tons, it weighed nearly as much as the Tu-95 that carried it and was so big that crews had to cut off the plane's bomb-bay doors in order to fit it in.
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Have a read of that wiki page againCookie_Monster wrote: »sigh :rolleyes:
Bomb: 27 ton
Plane 90 ton empty 171 ton loaded
nearly as much?
also it's reported as 50MT with a potential of 100MT and is not the largest bomb ever built. It's the most fire-power ever detonated but the largest bomb was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B41_nuclear_bomb
It only lists the B41 as being the most "efficient" in terms of MT/ton
I can't find any information on the 20MT warhead of the SS18 ICBM for comparison but I'd imagine it's comparable
https://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/icbm/r-36m.htm
Interesting point - there is no point in making a nuke bigger than 100MT because the blast would be bigger that the depth of the atmosphere and all the extra blast energy would be directed out into space
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You might recognize the photograph above. Titled Valley Of The Shadow Of Death and snapped by British photographer Roger Fenton in 1855, it’s considered to be one of the oldest known photographs of warfare.
Problem is, it might also be one of the oldest known examples of a staged photograph.
Finally, Morris and optical engineer Dennis Purcell noticed something that led them to a definitive conclusion: they realized that some of the small pebbles on the side of the road had moved. Since these were almost certainly kicked around as people treaded over them, Morris realized that the photograph showing the pebbles further downhill was the one that came later. It was the iconic version.0 -
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The scale is also the biggest load of rubbish. The Hiroshima mushroom cloud reached a height of ~50,000ft. If that scale were true then the Tzar bombs mushroom cloud would probably reach half way to the moon.
The image is too small but I remember seeing it before. It's not comparing the total height of the mushroom cloud, it's comparing the yield of the bomb. 15KT vs 50MT .
Edit: Here's a larger version of it.
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Just last night at Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Southern Brazil...
To me, this is so so sad when i saw it this morning as there was a big discussion on the Station Nightclub fire in Rhode Island in 2003 on this very thread a while back which is one of the stories that shocked me to my core... the footage on Youtube is shocking and make me aware of fire exits in any nightclub i have gone to since.
It looks like it was nearly enough the same cause too... a band member on stage with pyrotechnics... And only one exit for close to its maximum of 1000 patrons. (approx 500 in the club when the fire broke out and half of those died)
To me this is absolutely fcuking insane in this day in age and especially in a city like Santa Maria which has a huge student population.
Here is a link for the Station Nightclub Fire Wiki...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire
Jesus, ten years on and still no lessons learned.
At least 245 people have been killed in a fire at a nightclub in southern Brazil after a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze, local police said.
Bodies are still being removed from the Kiss nightclub in the southern city of Santa Maria, said Major Gerson da Rosa Ferreira, who is leading rescue efforts at the scene for the military police.
He said the victims died of asphyxiation or from being trampled. There were as many as 500 people inside the club when the fire broke out.
Luiza Sousa, a civil police official in Santa Maria, said the blaze started when a member of the band or its production team ignited a flare, which then set fire to the ceiling.
The fire spread "in seconds", Ms Sousa said.
Rio Grande do Sul state Health Secretary Ciro Simoni said emergency teams from all over the state have been sent to the scene.
Santa Maria is 300km west of the state capital of Porto Alegre.
Rio Grande do Sul Governor Tarso Genro said it was "a sad Sunday" and that "all possible measures" are being taken in response.0 -
Sixteen blindfolded partisan youth await execution by German forces in Smederevska Palanka, Serbia.
A German soldier was widely reported to have been executed along with the partisans for refusing to take part in the action. However, in actuality he died from wounds he suffered the previous day,0 -
40 years since Martin Cooper invented the first cell phoneThe very first public wireless phone call was made by Cooper on April 3, 1973 while walking along Sixth Avenue in New York City. Cooper made the call directly to the office of his rival, Joel Engel, head of research at Bell Labs who was also committed to developing the first mobile phone.
He may or may not have said "nee ner nee ner" to Engel.0 -
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