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Edited footage of underground nuclear bomb blast

Krupo says...

Posted because it's interesting *and* because of the interesting commentary from the somethingawful.com folks connected to the posting:

Back in the day it was of great interest to both the government and citizens as to how effective a ... all » nuclear weapon that were made 15-20 years prior would be. The solution was to simply blow them up and measure the results, but detonating a bomb on the surface was not allowed anymore. So the solution was underground testing.

For these tests to be effective, three things have to happen. Dig a hole, put bomb in hole and blow it up, and then the gather of results.

My grandpa was the second man in charge of step one and three, digging holes. These were not your average holes, they were 24” to 36” in diameter, some up to 48” for a depth up to 2000 feet. As my grandpa was experienced in drilling holes in the oilfield (8-9 inch holes up to 16,000 feet deep) he had pretty applicable knowledge and experience of how one might accomplish this. As they were feeding in pipe (as the hole got deeper), by the time they got 2000” of pipe, the whole string of pipe weighed over one million pounds. By comparison, 13000 feet of 2-7/8” pipe in the oilfield weighs around 100,000 pounds.

So once the hole was dug, my grandpa and his crew had to leave as they placed a building over the hole (for secrecy/privacy) then lowered the nuke in. They then put so much concrete over the top of the device and filled the rest with dirt.

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Farhad2000 says...

Oh just visit his channel http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Brian81663

There was a post on SomethingAwful a while back about this. Someone is basically cheesing off someone's videos.

In reply to your comment:
I don't really think it's that good a video, but I do have a bit of a completist streak in me.

Oh, and how do you know it's not the same asshat? Looks to be about the right age, and he sure uglied up good.


In reply to your comment:
Not again... It's not the same guy...

OK, so the Saddam video is officially "out there"... (Sift Talk Post)

dag says...

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Deano - you have a good point, perhaps we're misusing the term snuff. I don't want this to spin out of control, but I can only tell you what James and I were thinking, "way-back-then" when we put together the posting guidelines.

Our thoughts were that there are already so many sites that cater for the lurid, prurient human side that we all have. We wanted to make a zone that was free of porn and "Faces of Death" type content that you might see someplace like Somethingawful.com or stileproject.com or even Fark.com.

So maybe it's not "snuff" but we just don't want videos that show actual people dieing on the camera. IIRC, hostage beheading videos were showing up around the time that the Sift started, and it might have been a partial reaction to that. I'm glad we made that decision.

We were probably wrong in bending the rules for the Kennedy assasination, it is historically significant, but it also documents a real human being dieing in front of your eyes, which is something we have chosen to exclude from the Sift.

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