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humanbeing2018 t1_j94g96p wrote

Wouldn’t it be in reverse? Like the house should be darker then the silhouettes?

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Zqin t1_j94v2mn wrote

I was curious too and found this: "Objects and people in its path shielded objects behind them by absorbing the light and energy. The surrounding light bleached the concrete or stone around the "shadow." In other words, those eerie shadows are actually how the sidewalk or building looked, more or less, before the nuclear blast." Source

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Marx_Forever t1_j94w6o8 wrote

Yeah, that was my guess, it's not so much a "burn" as the flash was so intensely bright that it bleached the pigment out of everything, much like the Sun, and the people and objects simply blocked that initial Flash in the moments they were incinerated.

Truly horrifying.

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