[High Praise! to American Digest]
[Nuclear Bomb Test Compilation HD] (Viewer #555,500)
You’ve probably never seen more than 5 or 10 seconds of stock footage of a nuke before. Try the long version. Watching that fireball grow and expand and roil and glow, looking for all the world like an inexorable alien invader from another dimension… it’ll change your brain.
To contemplate that the mind of man is capable of mastering such forces will fill you with either pride or horror or an odd mixture of both.
I don’t know if you could say we ‘mastered’ those forces, just figured out how to unleash them!
Now, if they hadn’t chickened out and cancelled the Orion project, That would have been awesome!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Hummmmm, smells like….VICTORY!
Roil!
Now, there’s a word you don’t use every decade!