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I think I have just found a new favorite breathtaking act of KA-BLAMMO on the part of the human race: Operation Sailor Hat. Part of the mid-twentieth-century drive to make scary-ass top secret projects more secret by making their names too silly for anyone to want to repeat them very much, Operation Sailor Hat involved using godawful huge amounts of conventional explosives to simulate the force effects of a possible nuclear blast. It is this part in particular that won Operation Sailor Hat a place in my heart:

"The crater left by the blast is called the "Sailor's Hat" crater, and currently contains unique species of shrimp which have evolved to survive the hypersaline conditions in the crater."

Because dude. DUDE. They made evolution happen with an Earth-Shattering Kaboom and there wasn't even atomic radiation involved!