And I immediately go “I’M SO SORRY.”
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Turned out, the CSS I put together was impersonating an old display so well it actually fooled (and frightened) the professionals!
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(The talk was really tons of fun otherwise. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttavBa4giPc …)
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The other actually genuinely scary slide I made a few years earlier. As part of Authors @ Google program, we were hosting Richard Rhodes.
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Rhodes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, most famous for his most excellent book The Making Of The Atomic Bomb.
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I asked if he needed any slides prepared (outside of a title slide I made) and first he said no, not really – but then he changed his mind.pic.twitter.com/mNvuLWdQ6a
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He asked me to take a map of Google campus area, and overlay two precise circles on top: one 7.2 miles in diameter, the other 9.2 miles.
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He said nothing else, and of course I kind of knew where this was going…
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…although I wasn’t quite prepared where during his talk he just went, “This is the blast epicenter of a 300 kiloton-weapon…
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…burst 1,500 feet directly above us.”pic.twitter.com/FlRiWB1g1F
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“Everything within this circle would be totally destroyed, except heavily-reinforced concrete buildings,” of which Google campus had none.
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The second circle, at 9.2 miles of diameter? “Fire damage. The *worst* fire damage. Everything organic in this area would be burned to ash.”pic.twitter.com/CQwFmzpUib
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“The winds at the edge of the fire would be blowing at about 400 or 500 miles per hour, and the air would be many degrees of boiling point.”
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