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Petroglyphs, not just simple, crude drawings from ancient man. The truth is stranger then you could ever imagine.
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ON July 9, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton
thermonuclear device in the atmosphere 400 km above
Johnston Island. The event produced a plasma whose initial
spherical shape striated within a few minutes as the plasma electrons and ions streamed along the Earth’s magnetic field to produce an artificial aurora.
400 km? 400 km = 248.548 mi. The space shuttle doesn't even fly that high. The shuttle usually orbits about 210-220 miles above earth.
So how did they manage to get the bomb up that high?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 836524Seriously? You have to ask such a question? Is that all? Not my fault the US have such shitty shuttles, just goes to show how seriously they take sending anyone out into space. July 9, 1962 - U.S. set off a 2-megaton thermonuclear device at an altitude of 200 mi. over Johnston Island in the central Pacific; detonation produced auroral displays visible for thousands of miles. (source: The Britannica Archive) [ link to www.britannica.com] Most of the devices were detonated in the air after being dropped from a B-52 bomber. Five high-altitude bursts, designated as Operation Fishbowl tests, were lofted by rockets. Their purpose was to study the effects of nuclear detonations as defensive weapons against incoming ballistic missiles. [ link to www.archive.org]
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