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Link of the day: Atomic blast at one millionth of a second

Submitted by Steven on Friday, 15 August 2008No Comment
Link of the day: Atomic blast at one millionth of a second

This link is sure to blow you out of your chair. While that may be a lame pun, we nonetheless highly recommend that you check out this incredible sequence showing the first several instants of an atomic bomb explosion.

Photographer Harold Edgerton took these photos at night from a bunker seven miles away with a specially constructed, 10-foot-long lens.

That, good friends, is pretty sweet.

The site has some conflicting info–first calling the shutter speed one millionth of a second and then saying the photos appear millisecond by millisecond (a millisecond is a thousandth of a second). But that doesn’t really matter. This stuff is fascinating. Check out the full site here. Enjoy!

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