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Is it me, or does it piss anybody else off when stuff like this happens, especially with something of this magnitude? I mean - as terrible and stupid as it sti
by cr0sh 10y ago
Is it me, or does it piss anybody else off when stuff like this happens, especially with something of this magnitude?
I mean - as terrible and stupid as it still is - it is one thing to lose the original video footage of the first moon landing (GAH!).
But here we have data, about the most destructive weapons ever created, that just sits gathering dust, decomposing, becoming useless. Meanwhile, the computer models, being developed and designed by people who likely weren't even alive at the time of these tests, are relying on data and assumptions that don't match up with the data in those tests!
What does that mean? I don't know - but it doesn't sound good on the surface - not good at all. Would these weapons work if needed (let's hope that is never the case!)? Would they fail? Are they failing now?
And why wasn't this stuff digitized a long time ago? Why do we not seem to care about this crap?
Lastly - we are in an era that are so far away from that time period of testing. It bothers me and frightens me that so many people - most who either weren't alive at the time, or were children with no access - these people have no idea about the destructive power of these weapons, having not experienced first-hand the nuclear tests that did occur. These men and women who were "there" are dying or dead already. And those replacing them seem to be getting bolder about wanting to use these weapons, without having the gut affirmation of what they would unleash. I have an opinion - which may be unfounded and false - that one of things that have kept us (humanity) from nuclear annihilation thru war has been the fact that there are still people who remember those tests. Those who remember - at a gut level - that the power of these weapons, from witnessing (or having other close-knowledge of other witnesses) these tests - have stuck with them in a way that can only be akin to that of say, seeing the earth from the moon, or from space.
It's a primal thing - the knowledge from seeing these weapons and their capabilities - a single one which can destroy an entire city - and knowing we and "them" target many to many to cities and other places...
Yet - here we are, people wanting to use them. And the data that could help make these weapons "safer" rotting away. I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing overall...
Fuck these weapons.