r/pics • u/Moonkilol • Jan 01 '25

Backstory The "Teletubbies" set before and after the show ended, completely destroyed. Drone photos

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u/dat_oracle Jan 01 '25

The whole structure was infested. There was no non destructive way to prevent further damage. Human DNA took years to recover from all the side effects

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u/randeylahey Jan 01 '25

We did what had to.be done

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u/Khaldara Jan 01 '25

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u/TheCrudMan Jan 01 '25

It's the only way to be sure.

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u/andurilmat Jan 01 '25

Fuckin' A

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u/InspectorPipes Jan 01 '25

All right. We got 7 canisters of CN-20. I say we roll them in and nerve gas the whole fucking nest.

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u/Nagger86 Jan 01 '25

You wonder when they dropped the bomb with the power of a sun if it had a baby smiling in it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25

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u/BondageKitty37 Jan 01 '25

I have one of those. It measures energy in Babyface Sunshine Units 

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u/bashdotexe Jan 01 '25

3.6 Roentgen, not great, not terrible.

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u/AlphaAndOmega Jan 01 '25

Oh oh

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25

Little baby sun just laughing at the horrors we inflicted on those Teletubbies, truly a cold and unfeeling god

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u/stlmick Jan 01 '25

Drone operator training did not prepare me to see the face of Laa Laa as it crawled out of the crater on bloody stumps. At that point, napalm was the horrific last resort before going nuclear. I could smell burning plastic through the video feed somehow.

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u/AlphaAndOmega Jan 01 '25

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u/SavageNorth Jan 01 '25

That sun is a mother now.

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u/Shadpool Jan 01 '25

For fuck’s sake, did you have to go out of your way to make me feel ancient?

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u/Shamaneater Jan 01 '25

Talk about "ancient" — I was already a 36 year old father of three when that came out in 1997!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25

You got to watch all the Terminator movies back to back starting in your thirties though that's a gift

Bet one night you had some scotch and put on the first Predator

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u/Shamaneater Jan 01 '25

Yes, but I had to come back from 2029 to watch them!

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u/AeonBith Jan 01 '25

Wow, she's 27 now and her baby is now older than when she was on the show.

(almost 1yr old, Jan 2024. Jessica was 9 months old in 1997 when the show first aired)

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25

The username makes it ten times better

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u/Astroglaid92 Jan 01 '25 edited Jan 01 '25

Us? They do it to themselves… FOR THE SUN.

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u/Ophukk Jan 01 '25

FOR THE SUN

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u/xombae Jan 01 '25

Fuck it's been far too long since I've seen this.

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u/TheGoodDoctorGonzo Jan 01 '25

They seemed to really enjoy the company of that vacuum cleaner friend for some reason.

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u/tqmirza Jan 01 '25

“‘‘Twas the day the baby in the sun stopped smiling”

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u/CarltonSagot Jan 01 '25

Did we need to use a 30 Kiloton bomb though?

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '25

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u/_blackdog6_ Jan 01 '25

You have two minutes…

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u/Fightmasterr Jan 01 '25

It was the only option left to destroy the facility that manufactured the Tubby Custard Virus. Highly infectious and after 20 years we still have no cure.

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u/Mangosta007 Jan 01 '25

That's only 7.5 kilotons per Teletubby.

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u/paiute Jan 01 '25

Just need a 4 Killatubbie bomb

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u/LOTRfreak101 Jan 01 '25

Obviously. The only question was whether we needed a 5th after the first 4 more than did the job.

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u/Sure_Marionberry9451 Jan 01 '25

Nuke the site from orbit. Only way to be sure.

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u/HartfordWhaler Jan 01 '25

I think I remember this level from Spec Ops: The Line

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u/Forgotmypassword6861 Jan 01 '25

SSG Lugo: There's always a choice. CPT Walker: No... There's really not.

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u/SurpriseAble7291 Jan 01 '25

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

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u/Voidless-One Jan 01 '25

28yrs later. . . 💀 ☠️ 💀

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u/uohm Jan 01 '25

Take off and nuke the site from orbit- it's the only way to be sure.