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Uh, let's not forget about this Eldritch abomination from that recent story about a good old fashioned livestock drama. Alright, that being said the Sun really is a deadly laser. Yikes. Fear the old gods, indeed.

A Tumblr thread about the closest things earth has to Eldritch abomination gods | gayarsonist are sun ocean and nuclear radiation michaelshelleys sun: unfathomably ancient, here before all us and will outlive us all by billions years its light is so strong prolonged exposure can burn or blind even millions miles away once worshipped as god by various religions and cults who made sacrifices appease will eventually expand as burns

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We feel dumb admitting this, but we've definitely had this question too. Turns out there's a few reasons people don't frequently die in nuclear explosions every time someone tries to prepare a salad. For another interesting thing regarding the physics of nuclear explosions, here's the time tumblr uncovered the legend of the fastest manhole cover ever.

Quora user get answer to question of if cutting a tomato could split an atom | If cooking, and cut tomato, is there chance knife would split an atom while slices into tomato cause nuclear explosion?

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Via bald and bankrupt

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When you find a 91-year-old grandmother living in a post apocalyptic wasteland.

This man was all kinds of shook with what he discovered, and we're just grateful for the footage.

The man eventually returned to Chernobyl and took more crazy footage and visited the friends he made the first time around.

Want more Chernobyl? Check out these unsettling Chernobyl pics or these Chernobyl memes that came out after HBO did a mini-series about one of the worst nuclear disasters ever.

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As the Doomsday Clock ticks closer and closer to Earth's demise, it's probably worth a quick peak at what exactly we're in for.

Uploaded by Greg Spriggs of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore California, the videos span between 1945 and 1992, showing but a fraction of the some 10,000 filmed explosions that exist.

So sit back, apply some SPF 10,000,000 sunscreen, pop on your shades, and chill out to the sights of destruction.

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The fine folks at AsapSCIENCE, for no reason whatsoever, released a new video yesterday on what would happen if a nuclear bomb dropped near you.

Be clear: This has absolutely nothing to do with scientists moving the Doomsday Clock thirty seconds forward.

via Fox

Or that the reality-TV gameshow host is kind of obsessed with the power of the bomb.

Or that former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev saying "It all looks as if the world is preparing for war."

Or that there's a new nuclear arms race.

Nope, they just posted it so we know what happens in the event of a nuclear explosion.

But they did also post this video of what to do to survive nuclear war