When you see a nuclear/atomic bomb exploding, do you feel beauty or horror?

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#1 deactivated-614fa247a87ab
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After watching that vid, I get a feeling of both. It creeps me out to see such things, but at the same time, those explosions look so beautiful. But in the end, I wish the nuclear bomb was never invented. What's your thoughts on beauty vs. horror in the nuclear weapons world?

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#2 donx48
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it's a beauty if you see it. it's horror if you experience it.
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Both.
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#5 Brainkiller05
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Wow if only they just looked good and not killed your whole city : [

If there were fireworks like that ;o

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#6 CrimsonMaverick
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http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=25584

After watching that vid, I get a feeling of both. It creeps me out to see such things, but at the same time, those explosions look so beautiful. But in the end, I wish the nuclear bomb was never invented. What's your thoughts on beauty vs. horror in the nuclear weapons world?

jt222_us

At the first second, I've seen the most beautiful site that mostly only dead people can see in personal.... but in the next second I felt horror when I realized that I'm gonna die in the next second XD

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#7 Doom_HellKnight
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It's both beautiful and horrific.
The explosion itself is beautiful, but the effects of the bomb are horrific.
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#9 SeanUD1
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Such awe inspiring beauty and horror at it's capable destruction.
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#10 Quadrifoglio
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Wow if only they just looked good and not killed your whole city : [

If there were fireworks like that ;o

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That would be totally awesome! :lol:

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#11 Iron_will
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If I see it on TV I'd probably feel beauty

But if it was near damn I'd feel horror because I know I'm gonna die any second.

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#12 LJS9502_basic  Online
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There is no beauty involved........:|
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#13 jealentus
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I see beauty and horror. Not in how it physically looks, although it is eye catching, but at the fact that it erases so many from existance. Depending on how you think about it death of humans can be beauty. Or, if you have a human perspective on it, it can be horror.
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#14 shinian
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I feel nothing. Mayby expect irritation on that weak video music.
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#15 reelbigfish
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Its not really beutiful, more mezmerizing, the patterns, colours etc...

But woah, how many nukes have we tested?

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#16 Samwel_X
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Although they do invoke horror, the inital mushroom cloud can be a thing of beauty. Personally I've always liked the photograph of the mushroom cloud with the red sky and the sun behind it. However, in this case the line between beauty and horror is very fine...
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#17 DeeJayInphinity
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I think they're beautiful because to me, they represent everything man has ever achieved. The only thing that sucks about them is that they have the ability to destroy millions of lives in a very short amount of time. Both human and non-human.
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#18 hojobojo
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Both.. the explosion itself is beautiful but knowing what it causes...
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#19 Godly_Cure
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Death and destruction = horror.
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#20 Film-Guy
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yes i find a bomb that kills thousands and spreads radiation everywhere beautiful:|
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#21 JustPlainLucas
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Well, I'm horrorified when they go off in populated areas, but when they're just testing them, they're so beautiful to watch, kind of like a volcano errupting.
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#22 Banestyrelsen
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But woah, how many nukes have we tested?reelbigfish

# of nuclear tests by country:

USA: 1,054
USSR: 715
France: 210
UK: 45
PRC: 45
India: 5-6
Pakistan: 3-6
North Korea: 1

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#23 Guiltfeeder566
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I heard they look even better in real life, ya know, before theu melt your eyes out.
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#24 blackleech
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I feel indifference :|
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#25 Welis
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Beatiful in-game such as cryisis and World in Conflict.. Horror in real life.
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#26 quiglythegreat
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We shouldn't be able to do stuff like that.
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#27 Xire_XII
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The beauty of science and man's creation, the horror of what minds and hands that may use them for profit and gain.
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#28 dissonantblack
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i think it looks awesome.
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#29 Nude_Dude
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It would be only beaty if man knew how to use it properly.

What Gore said: new technology + old habits = completely altered results

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#30 Vfanek
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Beauty, so much force in such a small object. Possibility to cause so much devastation, yet.. It's art in its own right
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#31 CheddarLimbo
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I don't feel anything. I'm so desensitized to violence at this point, I can't muster up any emotion to something like that. It's probably because the explosion itself is so abstract and unrelated to the damage it causes.
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#32 Tezcatlipoca666
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Its both... its a beautful thing to watch but a horror to be. you know... under or right above it :(
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#33 midnight-walker
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Depends where the bomb hits...
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#35 alpha_company
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http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=25584

After watching that vid, I get a feeling of both. It creeps me out to see such things, but at the same time, those explosions look so beautiful. But in the end, I wish the nuclear bomb was never invented. What's your thoughts on beauty vs. horror in the nuclear weapons world?

jt222_us

It's beautiful when you see it on tv, but when you realise that it destroys people and being the stuff of mass destruction, it's not beautiful anymore.

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#36 Eoan
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how do you test a nuke?
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#37 CaptHawkeye
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Beauty? In a nuclear explosion? You guys do realize that your eyes will be burned out of your skull before you see anything at all right? Even if you are standing at a safe distance from the blast area?
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#38 alpha_company
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That's why I said, it's beautiful if you see it on TV.
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#39 deactivated-614fa247a87ab
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[QUOTE="reelbigfish"]But woah, how many nukes have we tested?Banestyrelsen

# of nuclear tests by country:

USA: 1,054
USSR: 715
France: 210
UK: 45
PRC: 45
India: 5-6
Pakistan: 3-6
North Korea: 1

Don't forget Israel. I think they've secretly tested a few a couple hundred miles off the coast of South Africa. They won't admit it, but our government has all kinds of seismic activity records that point to them doing this.

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#40 Banestyrelsen
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[QUOTE="Banestyrelsen"]

[QUOTE="reelbigfish"]But woah, how many nukes have we tested?jt222_us

# of nuclear tests by country:

USA: 1,054
USSR: 715
France: 210
UK: 45
PRC: 45
India: 5-6
Pakistan: 3-6
North Korea: 1

Don't forget Israel. I think they've secretly tested a few a couple hundred miles off the coast of South Africa. They won't admit it, but our government has all kinds of seismic activity records that point to them doing this.

This incident has not been confirmed, nor has Israel's involvement. And it was not detected as seismic activity - as only underground detonations can create seismic activity - light was detected by satellite in the ocean a thousand miles (not a couple of hundred) off the coast of South Africa.

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Both.edd678

Mark 4 towards the GS steretype. Read the thread first, lol.

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#42 CrimzonTide
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It's horror, there is no beauty there...
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#43 EwanMac
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Both actually. Its terrifying and horrific but awesome as well.
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#44 EwanMac
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What's the song in tha as well, it's awesome!
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#45 Sir_Marwin
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It was like a million people screem for one second and then... complete silence :shock:
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#46 absolutebob
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The science is phenomenal but the consequences are dire.
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#47 nuclear_cookout
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...only underground detonations can create seismic activity...Banestyrelsen
The Tsar Bomba explosion registered as a 5 magnitude quake, and it was detonated at about 2.5mi (4km) above the ground.

I personally love nuclear explosions *points at my name*, but not the death they can bring. Here is one of my favorite nuke vids.
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#48 DrummerJon
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its neither, its just amazing
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#49 makaveli2344
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Depression.
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#50 geraldwillkill
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When i see stuff like that I wonder why we(The GOVt,) spend so much money killing eachother when we could be saving eachother. I gotta say the nuke is one of hummanities most smart dumb invention. Smart because it can blow a giant meteor headed for earth but dumb because we use it on eachother for death.