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Home Movies From A Place That Didn’t Exist: A Human Look At Life Before The Bomb
(I’ve posted this previously, but the video has been updated with even more footage from the Manhattan Project, and I wanted to bring it to everyone’s attention!)
What if the fate of the free world was depending on you, and they didn’t even know it? How would you deal with that weight?
According to this video time capsule recently unearthed at Los Alamos National Labs, you’d relax by skiing, swimming, hiking and drinking cold Coors beer. In other words, you’d act human.
Hugh Bradner, a physicist working on the Manhattan Project’s weapons testing program Project Y (and who later invented the neoprene wetsuit!), was given informal permission from the U.S. Army to shoot this collection of home movies. The hour of footage that exists was spliced down to 10 minutes for this video, and it represents our only look at what life was like for these physicists and staff during their quest to harness the atom for war.
We see them enjoying the outdoors, hiking with their adorable dogs, basking in the sun next to cool, clear watering holes (the bathing suits!), enjoying an ice-cold Coors (I like their style!), visiting the pueblos, exploring the mountains from the saddle of a horse, and even the Bradners’ wedding (featuring a cameo by J. Robert Oppenheimer).
I’m struck by how young they are, and how they are striving to enjoy the simple parts of life just as we would. These images are nearly 70 years old, but they show that even though these men and women were about to change the world in ways they couldn’t imagine, they are not so different from us.
It’s a true treasure of science history.
Bonus: Browse the I.D. badge images of Los Alamos Manhattan Project scientists! From Enrico Fermi to a very young Richard Feynman! Notice any other gems?
(↬ LosAlamosNationalLab, with special thanks to LANL’s John Bass for working to make this footage public)
Fire is growing. It’s raining ashes lightly in town.
Car is packed, looks like a bed back there! Bye bye ABQ :) see ya in the fall!
Last progress pic from this mirror for the summer. I’m moving to Los Alamos tomorrow morning to do some research at the Labs. Not a ton of gains over the last couple weeks, but I had to take one last pic. Call me sentimental :)
This makes me angry.
As I’m working my ass off at the gym tonight, I glance in the mirror and see these two wonderful ladies pointing and laughing at me. I turn down my headphones to hear: “fat people should have to work out at home were no one has to look at them.” So, my lovely fitblr community, can we please spread this around? Shitty people like this should have to work out at home where no one has to hear them! Ozark Fitness South Springfield Missouri.
People are so pathetic. Wow.
Building Mt. Rainier. ;) Starting a 4 day split. Let’s go!
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I can’t promise too many interesting pics, but I have my moments.
