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Posted: 2/27/2017 9:47:11 PM EST

What does it sound like?

Posted: 2/27/2017 9:54:04 PM EST

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A really really really big explosion.

Posted: 2/27/2017 9:54:16 PM EST

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Ask someone from Nagasaki or Hiroshima.

Posted: 2/27/2017 9:58:28 PM EST

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I knew a guy who was a crewman on a monitoring ship that did measurements on our tests and foreign tests.

He was many miles from the detonation point and said you still wouldn't believe the smack that hit the hull of the ship. You couldn't be outside the ship. You were warned not to touch bulkheads and to either sit in a chair or stand on the deck.

He said after the detonation there would be 7 distinct smacks on the ship from shock waves.

He was present for 19 detonations.

FYI, he died of cancer 10 years ago. Very cool guy, awesome stories, a combat vet too.

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:00:08 PM EST

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Freedom™

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:01:37 PM EST

[#5]

Eat an extra hot Vindaloo, then wait.

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:02:32 PM EST

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Heard one 11/8/16 approximately 0200 EST.

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:03:04 PM EST

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I knew a guy that was placed in a trench outside the area where they did some initial bomb testing in the southwest. He said they had to wear goggles, and when it went off, he held up his hand and could see what looked sort of like an X-Ray of his hands bones.

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:07:13 PM EST

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Posted: 2/27/2017 10:07:17 PM EST

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Freedom™

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Drops the mic.

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:08:09 PM EST

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I could tell you but I'd have to kill you

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:10:23 PM EST

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I knew a guy who was a crewman on a monitoring ship that did measurements on our tests and foreign tests.

He was many miles from the detonation point and said you still wouldn't believe the smack that hit the hull of the ship. You couldn't be outside the ship. You were warned not to touch bulkheads and to either sit in a chair or stand on the deck.

He said after the detonation there would be 7 distinct smacks on the ship from shock waves.

He was present for 19 detonations.

FYI, he died of cancer 10 years ago. Very cool guy, awesome stories, a combat vet too.

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I had a similar friend, Navy kept them from returning Stateside for 7 years after witnessing most of the Bikini stuff, cancer, dead in 82

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:12:00 PM EST

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It's been so long since we've had an open air test, I bet there's only a handful of people left who can make such a claim.

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:14:55 PM EST

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Eat beans and cabbage two days in a row and you'll find out the hard way

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:17:41 PM EST

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I was about 5 miles away from a MOAB bomb detonation on the Eagle Range in Utah some years ago. Even at that distance, the shock wave was palpable and the boom rumbled for several seconds. Looked a lot like this:

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:18:07 PM EST

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Very few of the test videos have real sound.

There is one video with 3 dudes reporting from under a airbirst air-air weapon. (1kt IIRC)

Sounded like super loud thunder.

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:20:28 PM EST

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KA-BOOM

Posted: 2/27/2017 10:21:00 PM EST

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Ask someone from Nagasaki or Hiroshima.

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I did. All he could say was "what? what?"

Posted: 2/28/2017 6:30:51 AM EST

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so after all of the, the answer is still No?

Posted: 2/28/2017 6:46:07 AM EST

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I knew a guy who was a crewman on a monitoring ship that did measurements on our tests and foreign tests.

He was many miles from the detonation point and said you still wouldn't believe the smack that hit the hull of the ship. You couldn't be outside the ship. You were warned not to touch bulkheads and to either sit in a chair or stand on the deck.

He said after the detonation there would be 7 distinct smacks on the ship from shock waves.

He was present for 19 detonations.

FYI, he died of cancer 10 years ago. Very cool guy, awesome stories, a combat vet too.

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This.

Just 'cuz you aren't close enough for it to kill you, doesn't mean it won't turn your asshole purple.

Posted: 2/28/2017 6:46:25 AM EST

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A very good friend of mine, now 82, was aboard the USS Munsee during operation Hardtack. The ship set testing and sampling buoys and retrieved them VERY soon after detonation.

He said loud explosion even from 20 miles away. Also said very pretty.

FTR, he's in reasonably good health for his age and only golfs about 6 days a week when the Michigan weather allows. He still hunts deer too, though not all day long as he did when we stalked the western U.P.

Posted: 2/28/2017 10:32:43 AM EST

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I think the bigger issue is how close you are..

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Posted: 2/28/2017 10:37:42 AM EST

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well played

Posted: 2/28/2017 10:40:51 AM EST

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I was about 5 miles away from a MOAB bomb detonation on the Eagle Range in Utah some years ago. Even at that distance, the shock wave was palpable and the boom rumbled for several seconds. Looked a lot like this:
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AF dropped a MOAB out the back of an MC-130 on the Eglin range when I was at Hurbie. Half the base was on the apron of the flightline to watch. Floated down (it's on a pallet with a controllable parachute system) and out of sight behind the treeline a LONG way off. The detonation and mushroom cloud were damn impressive...lots of yips! and involuntary flinches from the staff types