#nuclear testing

the titular house in the middle is the tidiest and has fresh coat of paint and it's very obvious that it got just about as fucked up by the blast as the other two, so they resorted to overlaying a matte painting of the middle house looking intact over the blast footage and replaced the rubble left of the middle house with a new house that looks just fucked up enough to fool the audience, but was very clearly not subjected to the heat and blast from an atomic bomb.

it's so fucking funny how obvious the propaganda spin is and it is a great case study in learning how to be critical of filmed content that you see being presented as fact. anyway, here's the poster i made for the archived copy i have on my plex server:

Not A Biologist, but. This does feel like an interesting potential Animorphs book, because we know that radiation fucks with cells' ability to replicate correctly and can mess up DNA coding. So assuming that morphing involves some of the same processes as reproduction and/or healing, then it seems like heavy radiation exposure could cause morphing to go really wrong, or at least really weird. Obviously the famous one is your cells get too good at dividing (i.e. cancer) but I could also see this working with morphing to produce, like, involuntary or excessive morphing.

Dancer Sally McCloskey doing an interpretive dance to a nuclear test, specifically, Operation Upshot-Knothole's Dixie test-firing, an 11-kiloton air drop detonated at 6,000 feet, performed April 6, 1953. The detonation was too far off the ground to gather up the debris that forms the characteristic "stem" of a mushroom cloud.

Angel Peak, where she performed her dance, is just 33 miles northwest of Las Vegas. So, it's comforting to know that the government was conducting nuclear tests within a short drive from a major population center. Look out downwind! *haha* Jolly good fun!