Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998"
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN links it as a reference for the history and distribution of nuclear tests, and occasionally as an example of audio data presentation.
What it is
A timeline visualization plotting the 2053 nuclear tests and detonations from 1945 to 1998 on a world map, with sound marking each blast. It conveys the pace of the nuclear arms race.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2011 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Cites simonsarris · 2011-03 · on “Was Greece Just Nuked?”
There is a timeline form 1945 to 1998 of all the nuclear detonations recorded, where they took place and what nation did it. [this video]
Cites Angostura · 2019-10 · on “Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible”
Just pondering whether there is a system that converts line graphs into series of rising and falling tones, while a voice reads out the x axis markers. If you have multiple series, you could have different sounds running in parallel - sin wave, square wave or perhaps musical instruments each denoting a different series. That might actually be usable if there was an automated system for creating them on the fly. There's also this kind of approach [this video]
Critical Retric · 2014-04 · on “Did Israel steal bomb-grade uranium from the United States?”
The last 30 seconds of that video mention it but there way off base. Humanity has done a lot of above ground nuclear testing and for the most part unless your vary close it's simply a slight increase in cancer risk. [this video]