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Can you tell what it is yet?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:52 pm
by ovenpaa
A stunning image captured in the early 50's (First hint) An event most adults of the modern world will be aware of (second hint) but can you tell what it is and even better the name of camera used?
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Re: Can you tell what it is yet?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:18 pm
by Mike357
Atomic particle?
Re: Can you tell what it is yet?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:29 pm
by ovenpaa
Not quite as it is somewhat larger, many feet across in fact.
Re: Can you tell what it is yet?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:38 pm
by spud
think i got this one
is it an infa red photo taken from an infa red camera of an atmoic test on easter island
if not iis it baby beckham in the womb
Re: Can you tell what it is yet?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:56 pm
by Christel
spud wrote:think i got this one
is it an infa red photo taken from an infa red camera of an atmoic test on easter island
if not iis it baby beckham in the womb
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Re: Can you tell what it is yet?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:33 pm
by ovenpaa
The picture was shot from Operation Tumbler-Snapper (1952; kiloton range). Roughly 1 ms after detonation. Visible along the bottom of the fireball's surface are what have been referred to as 'rope tricks'. Absorption of thermal energy by the tower's guy wires result in such spike-like extensions.
The photograph was shot by a Rapatronic camera built by EG&G. Since each camera could record only one exposure on a sheet of film, banks of four to 10 cameras were set up to take sequences of photographs. The average exposure time was three millionths of a second. The cameras were last used at the Test Site in 1962."
http://simplethinking.com/home/rapatronic_3.shtml
Re: Can you tell what it is yet?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:08 pm
by Robin128
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds...
Re: Can you tell what it is yet?
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:27 pm
by ovenpaa
Robin128 wrote:Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds...
J. Robert Oppenheimer