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"Ever wondered what an atomic blast looks like before it obliterates everything around it? Before the smoke, the mushroom cloud, the devastation, it's really quite amazing to see the first few fractions of an atomic bomb upon detonation.

Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for his camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the source of the blast which was triggered Nevada - the bomb placed atop a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor by guide wires. The exposures are at 1/100,000,000ths of a second.

Due to the extremely high shutter speeds, the image quality and color depth is limited in these photos."

<img src="http://www.rapidnewswire.com/atom/atom3.jpg" border=0>
<b>"Automatic Camera situated 7 miles from blast with 10 foot lens. Shutter speed equaled 1/100,000,000 of-a-second exposure."</b>
<img src="http://www.rapidnewswire.com/atom/atom1.jpg" border=0>
<b> "With energy so great, the electric like energy runs down the towers guide wires and turns the desert floor to glass."</b>
<img src="http://www.rapidnewswire.com/atom/atom2.jpg" border=0>
"With a planet of fire, Joshua tree's near the base get vaporized in just microseconds."

http://www.rapidnewswire.com/atom.htm

<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
<img src="http://www.creedmoorsports.com/images/SA9121-M21.JPG" border=0>
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I've seen the video of that and was always facinated at what exactly was going on to create those otherworldly images.

A 45 has a muzzle.
A 9mm has a bullet vent.

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and people say Iran has a right to these things

Another set of test shots, same shutter speed:

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Zedsnardbody/ts1sm.jpg" border=0>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Zedsnardbody/tsspike.jpg" border=0>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Zedsnardbody/rapa1sm.jpg" border=0>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Zedsnardbody/mohawk.jpg" border=0>

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/Zedsnardbody/george10ms.jpg" border=0>

<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
<img src="http://www.creedmoorsports.com/images/SA9121-M21.JPG" border=0>

“So beautiful…but So deadly”

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Though I Fly Through the Valley of
Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I
am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing!
(Sign over the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base
Kadena,
Japan

Anyway of finding or reposting these pictures?

http://www.xanga.com/thisguyhere_44

Pan about 1/2 way down the page.

<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
<img src="http://www.creedmoorsports.com/images/SA9121-M21.JPG" border=0>