Manhattan project!

[SoylentGreen]

Did you know that physicists of the time were not absolutely sure that once a nuclear reaction started on the face of the earth it would not stop? Meaning that it could have consumed the entire planet? They went ahead with the testing anyway.

 

[LordMaul]

I think we had better write to the government and demand the heads of these men on spikes. Eh?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Yeah so? What would be the difference between ending it a few months/years before Hitler?

 

[HappyPuppy]

The nuclear reaction started by the first atomic test did, in fact consume the entire planet. You are but a mass of electrons floating in a void that only thinks that it exists. All hail nuclear power!

 

[John]

I thought this was a thread about the movie.

 

[tweakmm]

I bet you would sh!t your pants if you knew half the stuff the government does

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Did you know that physicists of the time were not absolutely sure that once a nuclear reaction started on the face of the earth it would not stop? Meaning that it could have consumed the entire planet? They went ahead with the testing anyway.

I did not know that.

Pretty ballsy move on their part!

 

[ThreeLeggedGnome]

It is man's nature to destroy himself.
Someone once said that

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
I bet you would sh!t your pants if you knew half the stuff the government does

I think most would.

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Did you know that physicists of the time were not absolutely sure that once a nuclear reaction started on the face of the earth it would not stop? Meaning that it could have consumed the entire planet? They went ahead with the testing anyway.

Yes, I have heard that before.


"If it doesn't work, who will know?"

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: John
I thought this was a thread about the movie.

damit so did i

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: John
I thought this was a thread about the movie.

damit so did i

I thought it was about the Rush song

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: Kiyup
Did you know that physicists of the time were not absolutely sure that once a nuclear reaction started on the face of the earth it would not stop? Meaning that it could have consumed the entire planet? They went ahead with the testing anyway.

I vaguley remember reading (I forget where) that it was the first H-Bomb that had them worried. I could be wrong though. Something about the hydrogen atoms in water I believe