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cybercuzco t1_j93tgsy wrote

Reply to comment by scorpion_tail in Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

No they wouldn’t have evaporated in an instant. That wall is still standing. If they were in the vaporization zone so is that wall. Likely what happened is they were horribly burnt and died in great pain minutes to hours later.

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scorpion_tail t1_j93x2ie wrote

If you’re exposed to that amount of thermodynamic radiation, you will boil and steam out. The wall is not mostly water. The bodies are.

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Marrrkkkk t1_j973zdr wrote

"thermodynamic radiation" is not a term that means anything...

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scorpion_tail t1_j978gks wrote

Yes it does. It’s thermo, so temperature, and it’s dynamic, so it’s exciting!

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Present-Extent-8073 t1_j949psh wrote

Omg this is terrifying… like, did they MELT…. and turn to goo. or like poof: evaporated into the air particles???

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Pointingirl t1_j94via4 wrote

I can’t tell you the answer to your question, but I can tell you that I read a book in hs just titled “Hiroshima” and one of the stories was about how there were soldiers whose job it was to stare at the sky and watch for a nuke. When the bomb went off and they were staring directly at it, it literally melted their eyeballs out of their heads.

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