Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:NTS Barrage Balloon.jpg

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Image:NTS Barrage Balloon.jpg, Featured[edit]

A blimp is felled by the shockwave from a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, 1957.
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- I think this is just a beautiful, surreal historical photograph, wonderfully composed. It shows an (unmanned) blimp which was felled by a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in 1957. The people to the right of the blimp give a sense of the scale. To me it resembles a post-apocalyptic Hindenberg, with a wonderful sense of symmetry, and is just a breathtaking image for reasons I don't claim to fully understand. Very high resolution original. Fastfission 22:06, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
18 support, 1 Oppose => Featured--Shizhao 08:13, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]