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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So, yeah… not very often you get to made a slide that depicts all of your co-workers being killed in a blast of a nuclear explosion. :·/
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(If you’re somewhat morbidly curious to see more, that whole talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYS1_7jgHaI …)
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…and there was also this one slide where my computer just gave up and fell off a podium, but that’s a whole different story. :·)
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