Photos of Hiroshima from the Robert L. Capp Collection (2 Viewers)

[The_Mortician]

Photos of Hiroshima from the Robert L. Capp Collection

The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family. The entire set is available below. Please contact Sean L. Malloy ([email protected]) if you have any information that might help identify the original photographer...

 

[The_Mortician]

5 more....

 

[Random_100]

Gr8 post Mort

5*

 

[Blaine]

Awesome.

 

[p4irs]

i read that there's this animal that survived the hiroshima, not sure was it the radiation or the blast, and able to live in extreme places/condition, extreme coldness and heat. one badass motherfucker creature

 

[Jason]

Link?

 

[p4irs]

i cant find the article that i mentioned before, it was a long time ago, sorry.

Tardigrada

Better known as water bears, tardigrades are eight-legged invertebrates visible to the naked eye and found throughout the world, making them a biology class favorite.

They’re capable of halting their metabolisms during times of extreme privation, and can repair DNA damage caused by extraordinary doses of radiation — a phenomenon that’s piqued scientific curiosity and prompted researchers to shoot tardigrades into naked orbit around the Earth.

"The repair — how fast, how efficient, with or without errors — is different, but basic damage is the same," said Rettberg, who helped design a tardigrade containment system attached to the Foton-M3 satellite, launched last September by a consortium of national space agencies.

The tardigrades had already been coaxed into an anhydrobiotic state, during which their metabolisms slow by a factor of 10,000. This allows them to survive vacuums, starvation, dessication and temperatures above 300 degrees Fahrenheit and below minus 240 degrees Fahrenheit.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/invertebrate-as/

Polyextremophile Capabilities:
Tardigrades are polyextremophiles - i.e. can survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal.
Some tardigrades can survive temperatures of -273°C, close to absolute zero.
Some can survive temperatures as high as 151 °C (303 °F).
Can survive 1,000 times more radiation than other animals such as humans.
Have been described as going for almost a decade without water.
Some have even reported to survive the vacuum of outer space.

http://alchemipedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/tardigrades-phylum-tardigrada.html


well they say they found cockroach after the atomic bomb, well a person will die with 1000rads radiation exposure, and cockroach can survive 10x more than that and this thing can survive 1000x more than human.. they even survived after 10 days exposure to the vacuum of space.

more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

very interesting creature

 

[revolva]

I went to the Atomic dome once. Me and a few friends drove from Tokyo down to Hiroshima in a haze of drug and alcohol abuse. Sobered the fuck up when we saw the A-bomb museum. The sheer scale of the devastation is impossible to get your head around.

 

[rottenfresh]

Always wondered how they thought they'd get away with bombing Pearl Harbor, world knows America doesn't play that shit! !!

 

[Gogoplata]

More info on Tardigrada.

 

[FallenSentry]

i read that there's this animal that survived the hiroshima, not sure was it the radiation or the blast, and able to live in extreme places/condition, extreme coldness and heat. one badass motherfucker creature

Godzilla?