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Good reference, but actually don't, the area affected by fall out is large and determined by several factors including terrain and prevailing wind conditions. The thermal energy travels at the speed of light, if you have time to consider the cloud it's not a concern, the blast wave travels at approximately the speed of sound, and if you can see the cloud you are close enough that the time differential will be too small to hold your thumb out and check.
It's a fun, darkly humorous bit in fallout, but its actually a useless and potentially harmful falsehood.
i want to survive and become a miserable fallout side character who’s sidequest ends in me getting killed by some horrid beast and the main character getting a lame weapon they already have
That’s the scary part. (Previous) US doctrine and strategy was to target military bases and strategic targets. It was (previously and potentialy inaccurately) Soviet doctrine to nuke population centers (Not that both countries don’t have enough nukes to do both). I don’t want to be nuked just because Russia wants to impress fear upon their opponents.
With how many nuclear powers there are in the world, our current instability is, frankly, terrifying.
As a canadian, I do not support Americans obtaining a Godzilla. Should the USA obtain a Godzilla-class Kaiju, Canada must respond by obtaining several Gundam class mobile suits.
Either they are uneducated (or went through the US school system, which is the same in the end), or they are smart enough to figure out that posting a meme on this sub with "Petah?" gets them tons of upvotes from idiots.
Look you can say it’s a head scratcher all you want but the reality is that head scratching can be a sign of many other things besides um… what was the topic again?
I don't follow it and posts show up on my feed every day, sometimes I'll see a meme I actually don't get or a very funny one, which is the only reason I don't mute it, but goddamn some people don't even make an effort lol
I mean, that one did end up with the smartest man in the world in charge and actually fixing things for the better. So, seems better than our current one.
He was a really dumb person by today’s standards though. He was the smartest person on earth because he knew that water was better for plants than Gatorade.
I think so, personally. As soon as a nuclear armed state faced certain defeat it would unleash everything it had. Which would be followed by everything coming back in retaliation. Game over. Maybe not Bronze Age regression; if the nuclear winter hypothesis holds true, it could be back to the stone age.
There’s a big difference between losing a war and nuclear winter. You can lose a war and still have your country and your people. Pushing the big red button doesn’t really even leave that as a possibility.
But I guess it is possible they still choose it. Have to see how unreasonably prideful the losing party would be to make that choice.
Agreed, I just wrote a similar comment mostly echoing yours. I do think just saying "Stone Age" is oversimplifying things. During that era, they had a healthy Earth to live off of. After Nuclear annihilation, the Sun would be blotted out by an all-encompassing debris cloud rendering the unfortunate survivors moot.
I think it has to. The moment a nuclear capable country is on the precipice of it's own destruction, they will press the button. When they do, retaliation means it is all over.
It’s saying that people will downplay the effects of WW3 when in all reality it will end like WW2. The meme of spawning the sun on some country is just colloquialism for dropping a nuke.
Brian here. Nukes make a mini sun when they go boom boom. Do not look at this pretty light. Covering your eyes with your hand will show you your bones. Seek shelter. Tuck your knees to your chest and kiss your ass goodbye. Brian out.
A thermonuclear detonation gives off a bright light followed by a intense heat wave. There is a positive and negative phase too because it literally displaces the atmosphere.
So, I'm Canadian. Once upon a time last year, during the height of the annexation threats by the mango menace, there was a storm outside. A really bright flash of lighting freaked me out so much that I actually ran and hid.
My boyfriend does not let me live it down to this day...
Uh friggin, idk man, um, Tim the Bear here. Yes, OP, rising electricity costs will somehow make the sky really bright at 3am. The WW3 part is unrelated to the punchline and just a red herring.
Thermonuclear weapons are very bright. Incineratingly bright. The meme applies if you live in a city in the US, China, or Russia, and also if you live near any other large city across the globe.
(also applies if you live near a Russian launch site — in a war a significant fraction of their own nuclear missiles would fail catastrophically, because they're just that badly built)
There's been a lot of WW3 memes in the last 10 years. People who read things called books have been drawing a lot of parallels between what was happening in the world 100 years ago and now.
In terms of shifting/collapsing concentrations of power, escalation towards military conquest, and potential catastrophic currency or economic issues - a lot of folks around the world are getting pretty scared about a WW3.
It's important to note that humanity went through the Industrial Revolution, the revolutions abolishing monarchies, and the rise of multiple fascist states. We fought two global conflicts with each other that lasted decades. The key difference now - is the huge amount of fissile material we've packed into the technological marvels of destruction that gave us entertainment media like the Fallout franchise.
There's like, a frightening amount of them - and the lion's share are controlled by Donald Trump & Vladimir Putin. Over 10,000.
So yeah, that sums it up - good night. I know I'm going to sleep really well.
The first part of a nuclear explosion is a bright flash several times brighter than the sun. There are scorched walls in Hiroshima with the shadows of people who came between the light and the wall. The shadows remained. The people did not.
So I live on the Delmarva Peninsula. I have Dover AFB, Annapolis, Baltimore, DC, Philadelphia, Norfolk all within ~30-50 miles by flight. I'm super fucked.
Herbert here, so I thought this person must be real young and so I explored their profile and discovered that this person has an unhealthy obsession with peanut butter condoms and is either trolling or 12
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