frakkin' huge bomb animation

[mckitterick]

So Russia has decided that the US shouldn't have the largest conventional bomb - the "MOAB" - so they made their own version, many times more powerful - the "FOAB." Here's an interactive video by Popular Science that shows you this delightful creation. It's strangely intriguing, this device of mayhem.

Ain't humans grand?

Chris

Comments

[normalcyispasse.livejournal.com]

Cool, but on page 5 they misspelled "concussive."

[ephealy.livejournal.com]

Ain't editors grand? Nice one, Brandon. :)

I guess all we need now is for some enterprising nation to create the SOAB, or Spawn of all Bombs. These nifty little buggers will be smaller than their parents, dispersing over a wide area when deployed to cause damage with their little firestorms.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Unfortuantely, we have already made these, and the Israeli military loves 'em.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

They also misused "it's" on page 2 – they meant the possessive "its", not the "it is" contraction "it's" that they actually wrote. They repeat their "concusive" on page 6.

It's still pretty cool, but the messed up writing is a distraction.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

So true. This would be a good example to show my tech-writing classes.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you'd think that a big publication would have better copy-editors. Or at least use them.

[piezocuttlefish.livejournal.com]

I'm not one to pay much attention to current events so much (nor am I the least versed in Russian history), but I have heard of the FOAB, and I've heard of Russians trying to plant a flag at the bottom of the ocean under the north pole. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia's self-image and foreign policies have gone back to Cold War chest-beating.

What happened to glasnost? What's pricked Russia's ego so much that it's decided to go back to these policies. Do I need to look farther than our own foreign policy to understand this?

And, in the words of Leeloo, big badaboom.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. If it weren't for Bush Jr., I wouldn't be much surprised if Russia and the US were as close as England the the US.