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The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago
vaporland writes "Tsar Bomba is the Western name for the RDS-220, the largest, most powerful weapon ever detonated. The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, in an archipelago in the Arctic Sea. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of about 50 megatons. Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds of its detonation. The device was scaled down from its original design of 100 megatons to reduce the resulting nuclear fallout. The Tsar Bomba qualifies as the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity."
MOD PARENT DOWN!
To drop on the Whitehouse, the Pentagon, and your house, I assume?
Vista's still a bigger bomb.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Penis mightier.
Sure it is. "A device whereby hydrogen is converted through fusion reactions to helium for the purpose of releasing energy." Didn't you read IBM's patent application?
"The Tsar Bomba qualifies as the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity."
I believe my wife would argue that the cheap freezer chili burritos occasionally eaten by her husband would easily defeat any such device.
And I'm pretty sure the cats agree, too... how my wife puts up with me, I shall never understand.
Yeah. Think of all those forests laid waste to accommodate your bloody writing implement.
set up us the Tsara Bomba!
Monstar L
Don't try this at home, kids..
As is my age, however I celebrate birthdays once annually. Have a look at the date the thing was detonated.
/. might actually have repeat articles in another year.
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear big-effing-stupid-violent-explody-thingy. Happy birthday to you!
And I suspect Digg and
You're selling Penis Mightier? ... you're sitting on a goldmine Trebek!
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
This is the Secret Service. Your location has been mapped and the new AG has been informed to issue a warantless tap on yourself, landline, mobile, home, work.
Meanwhile Gitmo has a warm seat being prepared for your arrival.
The dogs there have not been biting anyone ever since the congress started questioning the poor canines.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
Extreme Programming - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Developers
No no, its a term for people who follow BarBar.
rewriting history since 2109
The Aqueducts?
ancient, loving Earth
Tough love....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
etc. etc.
Hey Nancy boy, maybe the Earth is trying to tell you to man-up?
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
True, but if Tsar Bomba makes a man's country turn into glass, I think we could notch that as a win for the bomb.
Sig it.
Yeah, their's was a bit bigger, but ended up being a one-shot wonder...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
His name is Albus Dumbledore.
*duck*
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
And as for avoiding detection, Boomers have gotten rather good at that over the last 50 years.
But the sounds of The Big Chill soundtrack always give them away in the end.
"Blah Blah Blah Life force blah blah blah"
Are you fucking retarded. There is no such thing as life force. It's made up. It's completely bullshit.
People like you are the cancer killing slashdot.
Kill yourself now.
I don't know, I remain uncertain about Heisenberg priciples.
Dude, I think I can see my house from here.
The bigger problem was that an impurity in graphite during research caused German scientists to miscalculate the amount of uranium needed to...
So the *pencil* is mightier than the bomb, not pen.
Table-ized A.I.