People piss me off.
Came across a YouTube short claiming that the nuclear explosion scene from Terminator 2 is "cinema's most accurate nuclear blast". Just a simple depiction of someone getting incinerated by a nuclear bomb. Of course, there were plenty of comments sucking its dick, mentioning things like its "attention to detail".
No detail in that was an accurate representation of a nuclear blast. We should know that, based on historical accounts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Yes, some few, lucky individuals were fortunate enough to be instantly incinerated. The rest could have only wished for that fate.
I can't do any justice to their accounts of what they witnessed. If you're interested, research it. It is disturbing.
But the Terminator 2 scene — THAT cutesy simplification of a phenomenon that is very real — calling it "accurate" is disrespectful to the lessons that history should teach us. Disrespectful to people who actually died to a nuclear explosion, disrespectful to those were unfortunate enough to survive it and tell us what they witnessed. And indicative of humankind's apathy to suffering, the way we ignore others even when they have a chance to clearly describe their suffering, and our tendency to forget what should be etched into our conscience permanently.
No detail in that was an accurate representation of a nuclear blast. We should know that, based on historical accounts from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Yes, some few, lucky individuals were fortunate enough to be instantly incinerated. The rest could have only wished for that fate.
I can't do any justice to their accounts of what they witnessed. If you're interested, research it. It is disturbing.
But the Terminator 2 scene — THAT cutesy simplification of a phenomenon that is very real — calling it "accurate" is disrespectful to the lessons that history should teach us. Disrespectful to people who actually died to a nuclear explosion, disrespectful to those were unfortunate enough to survive it and tell us what they witnessed. And indicative of humankind's apathy to suffering, the way we ignore others even when they have a chance to clearly describe their suffering, and our tendency to forget what should be etched into our conscience permanently.
