Permanent Mushroom Cloud?

[krashkart]

Fooling around with Wikipedia and Google Earth tonight, I came across this interesting terrain feature near or on the site of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=338&pictureid=2506

Either Mother Nature has a dark sense of humor, or my imagination ran away from me. Looks like a mushroom cloud to me. :DL


Coordinates:

49°59'6.65"N
78°51'8.91"E

[TLAM Strike]

I guess that is what happens when you detonate two nukes in succession. The mushroom cloud of one gets burned in to the Earth...

:cool:

[SteamWake]

I dunno kinda looks like a tree....

[breadcatcher101]

More of those have been set off than most realize. Here is a cool site that lists all from 1945 until 2000 in cool flash animation:

http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/

I had no idea it was so many.

[TLAM Strike]

I had no idea it was so many.

If you want a better view check out this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAaza_rrxQ) :03:

That strange one that looks like the Death Star just got toasted was a nuke test in space. :rock:

[Randomizer]

For lots of nuclear weapons films and some neat Cold War articles see:

http://www.sonicbomb.com/

Click on the Atomic header to access the nuc teating pages.

[Weiss Pinguin]

I dunno kinda looks like a tree....
Same here... A burning tree... :hmmm:

[onelifecrisis]

You should take the Rorschach test krashkart, and post the results. ;)

[krashkart]

You should take the Rorschach test krashkart, and post the results. ;)

I don't know if I'd want to - it might confirm what I already suspect. :hmmm: