Ed Helms

And it dwarfs our attempts to stop it.

And then you think about this, which is that with human growth hormone injected to it, you know, to an exponential level.

And I don't know, I could see somebody like weeping about it.

I could see somebody

feeling utterly hopeless and lost.

Like Lizzie said, I could see somebody thinking, wow, we are gonna dominate, like the American empire is going to win.

It would certainly warrant a strong reaction in any given direction.

I'm also, I'm just wondering about populations on some of these remote archipelagos and just all around.

That's true.

That never received any kind of notification and saw this stuff and just must have thought the end of the world was happening.

It's a god arriving on our planet.

It's like, how else could you explain this sort of thing?

While it looked incredible, the shockwave of the explosion was, as you might guess from a massive nuke, pretty devastating.

Almost immediately, the explosion triggered a powerful electromagnetic wave.

Pulse, which sent a power surge through the grid on Oahu.

Again, Hawaii is almost 1,000 miles away, but the burst destroyed over 300 streetlights, tripped burglar alarms, and fried the equipment of a telephone company.

Here are a few eyewitness accounts from the night collected by the Honolulu Star Advertiser.

I love a newspaper that just calls itself an advertiser, by the way.

We just sell ads.

Oh, we have news, but mainly we just sell ads.