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Ranchoth
12-14-2005, 08:02 PM
All right, I've got my insanely obscure technical question for the week...can anyone tell me how big, roughly, the Gamma Bomb was that turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk?

I've found one picture of what's supposed to be the device (http://www.gammabase.com/index.php?weaponry/gammabomb.php) online. Which, aside from some paint shading that indicates a more recent depiction, and the fact that it obviously isn't going to be on any Disney DVD covers anytime soon, doesn't give me a lot of clues as to it's size.

This is assuming the artists wouldn't just "invent" a completely new bomb design every time they did a flashback over the last 40 years...but comics wouldn't do that, right? Right?

So...can anyone help? Please?
Bryan Ekers
12-14-2005, 08:03 PM
"No time to jump in the safety trench. Just time to talk about it... AHH!"
BrainGlutton
12-14-2005, 09:37 PM
Just big enough to turn you into a rampaging green giant without killing you! DUH!
slortar
12-15-2005, 08:14 AM
I remember reading the original (well, a reprint of the original) as a kid, and I got the impression it was roughly the same size as the one used in the Trinity project (so...19 kilotons...ish?). Of course, I'm not a comic book geek, and I'm probably wrong.
Ranchoth
12-16-2005, 02:13 AM
Er...actually, I meant how big was it physically. As in, how big the weapon's casing and whatnot was.

:smack:

I suck at posting, sometimes.

Thanks for your help, though.
Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor
12-16-2005, 07:36 AM
Er...actually, I meant how big was it physically. As in, how big the weapon's casing and whatnot was.

:smack:

I suck at posting, sometimes.

Thanks for your help, though.

As I recall, it was a tower-sized structure--at least the first one was.
Pushkin
12-16-2005, 08:10 AM
I've found one picture of what's supposed to be the device (http://www.gammabase.com/index.php?weaponry/gammabomb.php) online

So its the most destructive nuclear device was intended by the US military to destroy buildings but not people and can now be held as a grenade :dubious:
ddgryphon
12-16-2005, 09:06 AM
My goodness that is one phallic representation of the bomb!


Okay, in the original, it sort of looked like a two or three story propane tank tuned on its end. Pretty non-descript, just big and black.

Does that help?