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The Incomprehensibleness of the Manhattan Project
I remember learning about this in year five or something. So here we are quite desensitized to the whole thing. I think also like the orders of magnitude, the scale of it is so incomprehensible. It's insane. And that's not even taking into account then the radiation poisoning that happened after it. You want to think about, you could talk with a number of people that died. Okay. But that doesn't even get into your head the fact that these people didn't just die in a bit of a blast or they were not tired. Yeah, the only thing left was the ash or like the shadow of them on a nearby surface that wasn't itself destroyed. That's what