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Most ominous photos ever taken?

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Foreign Jackass said:
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what's this from and what's that huge round thing in the distance?
 
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Aokigahara

The forest is a popular place for suicides, reportedly the most popular in Japan and second in the world after San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.[5][6] Statistics vary. In the period leading up to 1988, about 30 suicides occurred there every year.[7]

In 2002, 78 bodies were found within the forest, exceeding the previous record of 74 in 1998.[1][8] In 2003, the rate climbed to 100, and in recent years, the local government has stopped publicizing the numbers in an attempt to downplay Aokigahara's association with suicide.[9] In 2004, 108 people killed themselves in the forest. In 2010, 247 people attempted suicide in the forest, 54 of whom completed the act.[2] Suicides are said to increase during March, the end of the fiscal year in Japan.[10]

The high rate of suicide has led officials to place signs in the forest, in Japanese and English, urging those who have gone there in order to commit suicide to seek help and not kill themselves. The annual body search, consisting of a small army of police, volunteers, and attendant journalists, began in 1970.[11][12][13]

The site's popularity has been attributed to the 1960 novel Nami no Tō (波の塔?, lit., "Tower of Waves") by Seichō Matsumoto,[14] which ends with two lovers committing suicide in the forest. However, the history of suicide in Aokigahara predates the novel's publication, and the place has long been associated with death: ubasute may have been practiced there into the 19th century, and the forest is reputedly haunted by the Yuri (angry spirits) of those left to die.[9]
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not sure if it hits the thread title, but this image literally kills me.

A young couple have just learned that their 19 month old child has swept to sea and drowned.

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pic won the pulitzer in -55 for best press photo.
 
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There are many out there of this moment, but this one gets me. The look on his face, man. He's trying to keep a blank face but you can see it in his eyes.
 
Chuckl3s said:
If you ever search the rabbit hole of /b/, you can see everything from that day. EVERYTHING!

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What do you mean when you say everything? Can you please specify a bit more? If you're talking about the pictures of the dead bodies of the 2 killers, those are pretty common around the web.
 
Feature said:
What do you mean when you say everything? Can you please specify a bit more? If you're talking about the pictures of the dead bodies of the 2 killers, those are pretty common around the web.
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He's talking about the Bud Dwyer suicide - the camera's kept on rolling. There's a documentary about it. Sad story - whatever you believe.
 
Oh man, this thread is a bit too heavy for me. I don't know how people can collect this stuff without it eating them from the inside. My empathy just overtakes me, I find it very hard to look at some of these pics.
 
Second said:
The Tsar Bomba always gives me the creeps

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Exactly.


I simply can't fathom how people could consciously make the decision to detonate a bomb of that magnitude. The Tsar defies all imagination.

At some point during the process of this project, every single person should come to realize: "Okay, we cannot do this, right? This is just completely wrong, over the top, dangerous, immoral, ... What the hell are we doing? And why?".

That this didn't happen must make a fantastic case study on group-think, detachment from reality, megalomania, ...
 
Jedeye Sniv said:
Oh man, this thread is a bit too heavy for me. I don't know how people can collect this stuff without it eating them from the inside. My empathy just overtakes me, I find it very hard to look at some of these pics.
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First couple pages were ominous then it just got straight depressing
 
Souldriver said:
Exactly.


I simply can't fathom how people could consciously make the decision to detonate a bomb of that magnitude. The Tsar defies all imagination.

At some point during the process of this project, every single person should come to realize: "Okay, we cannot do this, right? This is just completely wrong, over the top, dangerous, immoral, ... What the hell are we doing? And why?".

That this didn't happen must make a fantastic case study on group-think, detachment from reality, megalomania, ...
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The fact that it was supposed to be double that size originally is even crazier
 
Second said:
The Tsar Bomba always gives me the creeps

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The Tsar bomba is fucking unreal. I never seize to be horrifically fascinated by something like that. Imagine something like that used in a modern warfare scenario. Looks like it could blast an entire continent to shreds.
 
Sappy113 said:
The Tsar bomba is fucking unreal. I never seize to be horrifically fascinated by something like that. Imagine something like that used in a modern warfare scenario. Looks like it could blast an entire continent to shreds.
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Here's what it would do to Paris if dropped on it. Yellow is the fireball, red is the area of absolute destruction.
 
Ithil said:
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Here's what it would do to Paris if dropped on it. Yellow is the fireball, red is the area of absolute destruction.
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Holy hell. Thanks for that. Complete destruction in a 35km radius? Boggles the mind how anyone could think building something like that was a good idea.
 
Sappy113 said:
Holy hell. Thanks for that. Complete destruction in a 35km radius? Boggles the mind how anyone could think building something like that was a good idea.
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The bomb design had the potential for a 100 Megaton yield, but they thought it would release too much radiation in the test and also would have almost certainly consumed the plane that dropped it in the blast, so they only built a 50 Megaton bomb. "Only".
 
Hootie said:
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the initial fireball of the Tsar Bomba, aka the largest explosive device ever detonated

"The Tsar Bomb was a three-stage Teller–Ulam design hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons (Mt). This is equivalent to 1,400 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in WWII, or one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa."
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This led me to look up Krakatoa.

Goddamn. I mean, I'd heard about it but I didn't know it was THAT powerful.

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Fucking volcanoes, man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa

Incidentally, you want to see some ominous shit?

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