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"THE MUSHROOM CLOUD BECAME AN ICONIC IMAGE... IT IS HARD TO SPEAK TO THE MINDSET THAT GETS LULLED TO SLEEP BY THE END OF THE WORLD..."

PICS INFO: Resolution at 1098x1536 -- Spotlight on a poster design titled "Empêchons cela, guerre atomique," (or “Let’s Stop This”), considered by many to be the very first anti-nuclear propaganda poster, artwork by Hans Erni (Swiss painter, graphic designer, b. 1909-2015, died at age 106!).

PIC #2: Anti-atomic war poster titled "Atomkrieg Nein" (translation: "Atomic War-No!"), c. 1954, poster design by Hans Erni.

PRINT MAGAZINE: "The mushroom cloud became a charged symbol for the No Nukes movement, and yet it was also used in a trivial manner on souvenirs, etc. How do the two implications balance out?"

MEDLAND: "The mushroom cloud became an iconic image. We are all drawn to iconic images; it is hard to speak to the mindset that gets lulled to sleep by the end of the world, but I understand that powerful images are the ones we all love."

Source: www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-atomic-energy-peace-or-war.

Today I learned that the hypothetical mathematics of the explosive yield of antimatter.

Combine 500 grams of matter and 500 grams of antimatter (to 1 kilo of stuff), and you get the explosive yield of 15 megatons.

Or 15 million tons.

Or 15,000,000,000 kilos.

The mass of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb, with a yield of 15 megatons, was nearly 11 tons, with a filling weight of 440 kilos.

What is 15 megaton times 440?

#antimatter #interesting stuff #nukes #atom bombs #oof

A simpler explanation might be that 1) intersecting beams in space is less likely than it seems, especially when you think about the width of beams relative to the actual size of space etc etc 2) that only high-powered beams have the capability to cause rips so the chances of two intersecting goes down even further 3) that the angle and duration of the intersection matters as well so the odds are even lower. Or something like that.

I like this theory... but the problem is that MM2 also features human weaponry kicking off a sario rip and nesk weaponry collapsing it. Admittedly these are nuclear fucking bombs that get the rip going, so not the kind of thing you can get at a corner store. But it still suggests that any explosion of sufficient magnitude — or, I don’t know, weirdness? — will cause timey-wimey shit to go down. So in the Animorphs ‘verse there are apparently loads of people from Micronesia and Japan and possibly anywhere a sufficiently large volcano has gone off who are just... lost in the timestream.

And unless they figure out another way to set off an equivalently-large explosion (which apparently has the effect of flinging people back into the time they left, if I read MM2 correctly) they’re just... stuck there. Statistically speaking, before the existence of humanity. For the rest of their lives.

Jesus, why did I go down this rabbit hole. The fridge horror is unending.