Despite the fact it's awful...

[Twilight]

Perhaps we should make big bill boards with both mushrooms and the title: Which one of the two would represent YOUR heart the most?

This is actually a very cool idea.

 

[ararat]

wait, they really dropped that thing??? from the looks of the chart in the first post i'd thought that would put a hole on earth or something :?

it probably would, but they detonated it in 4kms height

 

[Forkbender]

Perhaps we should make big bill boards with both mushrooms and the title: Which one of the two would represent YOUR heart the most?

This is actually a very cool idea.

Kind of like pushing duality where non-duality should rule.

 

[magickmumu]

wait, they really dropped that thing??? from the looks of the chart in the first post i'd thought that would put a hole on earth or something :?

they detonated it above the ground

 

[Brugmansia]

Kind of like pushing duality where non-duality should rule.

True.

 

[cockknocker]

The fireball touched the ground, reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and was seen and felt almost 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) from ground zero. The heat from the explosion could have caused third degree burns 100 km (62 miles) away from ground zero. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 64 kilometres (40 mi) high (nearly seven times higher than Mount Everest) and 40 kilometres (25 mi) wide. The explosion could be seen and felt in Finland, breaking windows there and in Sweden. Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage up to 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) away. The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the Earth.

To me, thats incredible that humans can build something so powerful. The amount of energy produced by the bomb equalled 1.4% of the energy output of the Sun. It was also 10x more powerful than all the explosives used in WW2, including Fat Man and Little Boy.

It's incredible that we build such technology, but use it for such destructive purposes.

In a strange way, I find watching the video of it to be quite a beautful thing, but lets just be glad that the Cold War didn't go nuclear, otherwise we'd all be living in Fallout 3.

 

[magickmumu]

In a strange way, I find watching the video of it to be quite a beautful thing, but lets just be glad that the Cold War didn't go nuclear, otherwise we'd all be living in Fallout 3.

it's the music in that video.

 

[Psychoid]

As already pointed out by others, it's interesting to note that the atom bomb and LSD were discovered within a 5 year time frame. First the atom bomb, then LSD.

Notice how close the discovery of the active principle in psilocybin mushrooms, was, to the discovery of LSD (if I remember correctly, about two weeks?). I've always found it particular that both mushrooms, have the power to literally blow away the 'known world'.

It's because when god saw we had created such a destructive weapon he understood that something was going really wrong, and therefore he "gave" us LSD and shrooms to help us change that dark part of our consciousness that lead us to create such a useless and dangerous thing.

But people NEVER listen to god, so he's getting MAD, and is gonna swipe all non-believers from earth in 2012.

 

[Forkbender]

As already pointed out by others, it's interesting to note that the atom bomb and LSD were discovered within a 5 year time frame. First the atom bomb, then LSD.

Notice how close the discovery of the active principle in psilocybin mushrooms, was, to the discovery of LSD (if I remember correctly, about two weeks?). I've always found it particular that both mushrooms, have the power to literally blow away the 'known world'.

discovery of LSD : 1938
first use of LSD: 1943
first test of Atom Bomb: 1945
Wasson finds mushrooms: 1955
isolation of psilocybin/psilocin: 1958

Of course the discovery of the atom bomb was a proces that started around 1939 when Einstein wrote a letter to the American president urging him to start developing it...