Time to build a Waterworld atoll?

Don't forget the French, they were busy annihilating the French Polynesian atolls of Mururoa, and its sister Fangataufa. Boom boom boom.

Look
If you had
One shot
Or one opportunity
To release all the energy you ever wanted
In one moment
Would you abuse it
Or use it for good?

They've armed the weapon
Countdown clock is set and
J. Robert Oppenheimer is sweatin'
Eyes are red and he's nervous
Cause on the surface this is armageddon
The shock bomb, but we're set upon and threatened
And with no sound the whole Alamogordo ground
Is glowing and cowed under one smouldering cloud
He's choked and wowed, everybody's open-mouthed
And over the ground the shock front blows, kapow!
Snap back to the alchemy
Hope before tragedy
Showed with bold math that we broke the whole atom
We choked; controlled action with poles of cold cadmium coat
To go capture neutrons and slow fracture
We broke, postponed that and we chose to go fashion
A most radioactive plutonium gadget then
Fat Man and Boy and Enola goes laughin'
As Nagasaki is blown and Hiroshima's blasted

You gotta choose, yourself how to use it
The knowledge you hold and
Don't ever let a letter go
You only get one shot to stop
And one chance to know
Responsibility comes once you're a science guy, yo!

Neutrons escaping from a source radiating
Merge and start atoms shaking; they begin
To unglue toward a decreased order
Entropic force distorts em
And supercharged with loads of protons they can only go farther
Cold war grows hotter--exothermal--Colorado to Joe Stalin
Coast to coast holes; silos but there's no farmer
Toe-to-toe drama
NATO and Warszawa in co-assured trauma
The globe groans everyone knows there's no calming
So show your foes and implode your core column
Quid pro quo Castle Bravo for Tsar Bomba
And move on and leave atolls exposed to gross doses of old fallout;
Slow-to-go toxins in shoals and so though we explode them no longer
Still the proof lives on in the blue lagoon water, father

You gotta choose, yourself how to use it
The knowledge you hold and
Don't ever let a letter go
You only get one shot to stop
And one chance to know
Responsibility comes once you're a science guy, yo!

When war games hit the stage of a gluon's rage
There's a military boot on the new doc's page
We were playing in the beginning, but grew up strange
Making radar and missiles, and new bombs blazed
And we kept grinding the lensed sights for the next sniper
Best believe son it'll pay to design fighters
All the gains of science analyzed by the
Man provide plans for sarin and cyanide
And our hands are blighted by crying
Eyes when dying lands are slammed if our grants expand the fire brighter
And there's no jury there's no sublime righter
This is our fight
And these minds are all ours so protect your pia mater
Try to feed and water good, seed trust, flee dishonour
Gotta be clean being Apollo stead of Vietnam and
Lay the armour down and be the one to stand up
And lead us on the trail of Spock
We'll elevate these motley progeny
To a future in a safer spot, an irrigated plot
Homicide a way forgot
Success is a lack of military options
Failure's not
Become a lover of a great and cosmic goal
We cannot condone these terror plots
So here we go it's our shot
Feel frail or not
This is the only world and humanity that we got

You gotta choose, yourself how to use it
The knowledge you hold and
Don't ever let a letter go
You only get one shot to stop
And one chance to know
Responsibility comes once you're a science guy, yo!

You gotta make your own mind up, man.

Artificial islands?!? Are they dumping sand on atolls, destroying reefs, in order to attempt to extend Chinese territory farther out to sea, or something? I thought that was against international law, and had been proven to not work (the sand gets washed away eventually). It's definitely terrible for the ecology.

Also, has 'American military, please go away' ever worked even once?!?

..or how about an obese man (at least 300lbs) for a stellar human Bikini atoll cannonball blast?

http://folklorewiki.lydiafish.us/pmwiki.php/Main/GiveMeOperations

Give Me Operations

Don’t give me a P-38; the props, they counter-rotate
She’s scattered and smitten from Burma to Britain
Don’t give me a P-38, NO!

CHORUS:
Give me operations way out on some lonely atoll
For I am too young to die; I just want to grow old

Don’t give me a P-39; the engine is mounted behind
She’ll tumble and spin, and she'll auger you in
Don’t give me a P-39

CHORUS

Don’t give me a Peter-four-oh; it’s a hell of an airplane, I know
A ground-looping bastard, you’re sure to get plastered
Don’t give me a Peter-four-oh

CHORUS

Don’t give me an 86D, with rockets, radar, and AB
She’s fast, I don’t care; she blows up in mid-air
Don’t give me an 86D

CHORUS

Don't give me an F-84, she's just a ground-loving whore
She'll whine and she'll wheeze and make straight for the trees
Don't give me an F-84

Just give me operations way out on some lonely atoll
For I am too young to die; I just want to grow old

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I see. At least we don't see those videos anymore. Good research, by the way.

In reply to this comment by hoju:
There was no hate involved - nothing personal at least. I was trying to point out that we were seeing a lot of those types of videos and I was a little sick of them, and yes, I was a bit of an ass about it. That comment still makes me laugh though.

In reply to this comment by Fjnbk:
Why all the hate?

In reply to this comment by hoju:
WOW! Right before I came across this post, I was thinking to myself, "you know what I've NEVER seen before? Someone taking footage of atomic explosions and then putting MUSIC to it... I bet that would be a wicked awesome idea!" and then here it was. The most unique and revolutionary concept EVER. Congrats to you for coming up with it!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Atomic-Bomb
http://www.videosift.com/video/massive-attack-1946-atomic-bomb-test-at-bikini-atoll
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nuclear-Power
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sad-Storm-A-Nuclear-History
http://www.videosift.com/video/GYBE-Rockets-Fall-on-Rocket-Falls
http://www.videosift.com/video/nuclear-explosion-compilation
http://www.videosift.com/video/Underground-Nuclear-Bomb-Testing-INTENSE-Music
http://www.videosift.com/video/Orchestral-string-music-and-nuclear-explosions-haunting

and my favorite:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Boom--2

There was no hate involved - nothing personal at least. I was trying to point out that we were seeing a lot of those types of videos and I was a little sick of them, and yes, I was a bit of an ass about it. That comment still makes me laugh though.

In reply to this comment by Fjnbk:
Why all the hate?

In reply to this comment by hoju:
WOW! Right before I came across this post, I was thinking to myself, "you know what I've NEVER seen before? Someone taking footage of atomic explosions and then putting MUSIC to it... I bet that would be a wicked awesome idea!" and then here it was. The most unique and revolutionary concept EVER. Congrats to you for coming up with it!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Atomic-Bomb
http://www.videosift.com/video/massive-attack-1946-atomic-bomb-test-at-bikini-atoll
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nuclear-Power
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sad-Storm-A-Nuclear-History
http://www.videosift.com/video/GYBE-Rockets-Fall-on-Rocket-Falls
http://www.videosift.com/video/nuclear-explosion-compilation
http://www.videosift.com/video/Underground-Nuclear-Bomb-Testing-INTENSE-Music
http://www.videosift.com/video/Orchestral-string-music-and-nuclear-explosions-haunting

and my favorite:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Boom--2

Significantly is a funny, funny term and I expect that you know that already. If I were to posit that the global mean sea level were to rise an unbelievable 1m over the next century (and that really is an unbelievable amount), who do you ask if that is significant? In the Bay of Fundy for instance, that would be a substantial rise but hardly significant. On a Pacific atoll however, 1m would be HIGHLY significant. I expect that between thermal expansion and the melting of the permafrost in the higher latitudes, there will be a marked rise in global mean sea level. Do I think it will drown millions of people? No. Will it cause people to move to higher ground? Maybe. See New Orleans and Amsterdam for more info.

I think your second paragraph is where we differ. You believe that it is a "problem" and that there needs to be "action". I believe that we don't know enough at this time to justify absurd "plans". I'm a staunch advocate of fixing the man made problems that we can all point a finger at and say "that has to stop." Should we be cutting the tops off of mountains in West Virginia to make coal mining easier? No, we should stop that. Should we allow long-lining in American territorial waters? Nope, we should stop that too. Should every industrial/agricultural user of fresh water in the US be required to justify their use and return any used water in a cleaner state than they received it? Absolutely. See where I am going here? I'm not arguing global climate change at all. I am stating factually that I do not know and I don't believe anyone knows if man is causing global warming or not. I am suggesting that we fix those problems which we DO know we are causing and allow the science behind global climate change to develop further. I have never suggested that people are doing too much to deal with global warming. What I have stated before is that right now, we are all arguing differing conclusions based on the same set of data/publications. I am of the opinion that those who are most concerned about the environment are arguing based on their FAITH that they are right vs. those who have other primary concerns and have FAITH that they are right. See what I did there? I took your apparent jab at people of faith and showed that even among those in the environmental movement there is faith. Maybe not in a higher power or divine will, but faith nonetheless. From the OED: Faith - Belief proceeding from reliance on testimony or authority. All I ask is that people think for themselves and take no man’s word as the gospel (Ooooh look! I did it too! Well, kinda.).

On the last… I’ll make my response short. I think that there is political pressure placed on scientists. I offer no facts nor anecdotes. I merely state that I think it happens. This is just based on my experiences (and yes, I have written a number of proposals going all the way up to international proposals) nothing more. I don’t ask that you accept it. I laughed and I will stipulate that proposals don’t include conclusions. But if I remember correctly, basically every single proposal I have written includes a section labeled something like “Expected Results.” Depending on the proposal, I normally have to write another section on how I will “deal” with unexpected results.

This footage was also used in the Massive Attack video submitted by the lovely and talented plastiquemonkey.

Question - is the suggest videos setting broken or off?
http://www.videosift.com/playlists/calvados/kitties-and-nukes

(Checks own lists)... oh nuts, that feature appears to be off/broken.

Anyway, have you added this one yet? http://www.videosift.com/video/massive-attack-1946-atomic-bomb-test-at-bikini-atoll

I would like to note before anyone thinks this is a duplicate that the two other videos about the Bikini Atoll Experiments are different versions. NOT DUPLICATES. Thank you.

WOW! Right before I came across this post, I was thinking to myself, "you know what I've NEVER seen before? Someone taking footage of atomic explosions and then putting MUSIC to it... I bet that would be a wicked awesome idea!" and then here it was. The most unique and revolutionary concept EVER. Congrats to you for coming up with it!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Atomic-Bomb
http://www.videosift.com/video/massive-attack-1946-atomic-bomb-test-at-bikini-atoll
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nuclear-Power
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sad-Storm-A-Nuclear-History
http://www.videosift.com/video/GYBE-Rockets-Fall-on-Rocket-Falls
http://www.videosift.com/video/nuclear-explosion-compilation
http://www.videosift.com/video/Underground-Nuclear-Bomb-Testing-INTENSE-Music
http://www.videosift.com/video/Orchestral-string-music-and-nuclear-explosions-haunting

and my favorite:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Boom--2