Monday 31 December 2012

Blinky the Three Eyed Fish

Lagoon contamination resulting from Operation Crossroads, July 25, 1946.
Photo taken from Bikini Island, Bikini Atol, 3.5 mi (5.6 km) away.




A radioactive surgeonfish makes its own x-ray. Bright area is a meal of fresh algae. The rest of the body has absorbed and distributed enough plutonium to make the scales radioactive.

The fish was alive and apparently healthy when captured







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