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Date: February 16, 2006 07:29AM

This Harold Edgerton photo of an H-bomb test explosion looks almost like a Virgil Finlay illustration.
Automatic Camera situated 7 miles from blast with 10 foot lens. Shutter speed equaled 1/100,000,000 of-a-second exposure. Joshua tree’s near base get vaporized in just microseconds.

Note: the electric like energy that runs down the towers guide wires.