The new season of Fox's perennial hit 24 got off to a running start this year, as a two-night, four-part season premiere culminated in a one-two punch — first, Jack was forced to kill one of his best friends in the Counter Terrorisum Unit (CTU) in the name of national security. Then, a nuclear warhead exploded in suburban Los Angeles.
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Does the mushroom cloud form only when the blast occurs in the air, as was the case in most historical footage ?
Would a ground (or subway blast produce that shape ?
It seemed so odd to me as I watched the episode(s).
Posted by Jim Skolmoski on Thursday, February 8, 2007 @ 03:38 PM
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I have LOVED the storyline with24 since the first season. And the graphics are so great, they look like the real thing.
Posted by Andrew Koetz on Thursday, February 8, 2007 @ 06:51 PM
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Can you guys post actual 3d project for Nuclear explosion?
Posted by Panda on Thursday, February 8, 2007 @ 07:36 PM
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Actually most historical footage is of ground-based tests rather than air bursts, and mushroom clouds are easily formed by either (so long as the air burst isn't at an extremely high altitude; high altitude bursts are intended to create EMP effects rather than cause destruction on the ground.) What most DON'T know is any sufficiently powerful explosion will form a mushroom cloud; it need not be nuclear.
Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the subject here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_cloud
Posted by William Kucharski on Thursday, February 8, 2007 @ 10:37 PM
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Look at the very first blast (Alamogordo, Trinity Site, July 16, 1945), the bomb was only a few hundred feet above ground on a tower; I assume you mean a bomb dropped from an aircraft, as w/Hiroshima?
Posted by Dan Weissman on Friday, February 9, 2007 @ 01:01 AM
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btw, there's a typo in "The rolling effect of the mushroom cap"... The correct word is "roiling."
Posted by Dan Weissman on Friday, February 9, 2007 @ 01:08 AM
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It looks too mushroomy if you ask me.
Posted by Jonathan Abrams, SOC on Friday, February 9, 2007 @ 02:33 AM
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I think the stem looks too undefined. Maybe it would seem more realistic if I saw the video.
Posted by Skylor Wold on Friday, February 9, 2007 @ 06:19 PM
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it's a suitcase bomb, not one that was shown in the desert years ago. This kind of bomb certainly won't have the same exact look as the older footage. No one on here has seen a suitcase bomb, neither have I, so with that, I think they did a good job interpreting what it would look like. A larger bomb would've looked different. A smaller bomb.. maybe TNT would've looked different too. Keep that in mind when talking about the explosion.
Posted by Word Up on Monday, February 12, 2007 @ 01:58 PM
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Would you guys post the scne files?
Posted by Mark Schick on Saturday, March 31, 2007 @ 01:38 PM
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