this is like the vase/face thingy. alternating I see R2D2 and a penis
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Why survive? Sitting in the cellar waiting to die from fallout doesn’t sound like fun to me.
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These comments made my day. You guys are funny!
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or cooperate with your community to survive.
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This is the thing every fucking disaster movie gets wrong and is my pet peeve… humans are a communal species. We don’t prefer to go it alone, and there is safety in numbers. The biggest disaster humanity ever faced was the risk of exposure, starvation, and death the second the first H. sapiens emerged from the womb. The way we dealt with that was by relying on our communities. The only disaster scenario that got this kind of right (as far as I can remember) was Jericho. Communities may quarrel over resources, but you die faster as an individual. The first thing you should do after a nuclear apocalypse is seek out other survivors and set up a Megaton, preferably minus the unexploded nuke in the center of the city.
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I see Bender’s head, and/or a penis.
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Welcome to BingBong!
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I suspect that it would be pretty pitiful compared to the crater you get from a detonation designed to produce one(and Project Plowshare probably wouldn’t even condescend to beat it up and steal its lunch money); but wouldn’t a nuclear-sized airburst at least leave a bit of a dent through some mixture of the blast wave giving a good, hard, knock to any voids/other deviations from closest-packing in the soil below the airburst; and the ferocious rush of air outward from the detonation carrying away any loose soil, debris, etc?
(Honest question, I really don’t know; but I would imagine that an airburst powerful enough to cause the desired destruction of more or less all soft targets in the area would do some compressing of the ground directly below the blast; as well as carrying away loose soil, in addition to chunks of buildings, hapless bystanders, etc. It’s not even remotely a bunker-buster; and the further from the blast you get, the closer the path of the blast wave gets to being parallel to the ground rather than perpendicular to it; so even quite modest amounts of bomb shelter would become increasingly useful fairly quickly; but close to ground zero the shockwave would be almost perpendicular to the ground; and deal it a pretty impressive blow; not necessarily one I’d want to be separated from by a just a few feet of dirt.)
thanks for the earworm
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No DC trips, no seeing the Vegas sights, now no trips to Maine?
Most of the UK would be a big red blob too. Threads might have been optimistic.
I don’t see what point there would be in trying to survive that.
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Your call; but I know that my “number of times reloaded because I died horribly” count is far to high for me to be comfortable with; and that’s not even playing on hardcore/survival.
You will inherit the earth, because I am already insane just looking at it. I prefer an On the Beach scenario with wide open spaces and beautiful Australian beaches as the radiation slowly kills me.
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This is relatively easy to calculate. I dont quite have the time between classes to look up the requisite info, but if you can determine the blast pressure directly below an air burst, the material properties of the tube, and do the appropriate stress and strain calculations, it should be possible to come up with an approximation. Not a civil engineer, but if you make the–I think reasonable–assumption that the force of the blast is evenly distributed across the half-pipe, and there are no shearing forces, you might arrive at something reasonable.
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In spite of how lost I kept getting in that town (everything looks the same!) I really loved megaton.
And good points!
Though you’re right about jericho…they had so many underused resources that could solve their problems just sitting around; after a while I just got frustrated and watched something else.
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I yield to your subscript powers!
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If you look at their site, they describe the use of the “mud room” as everything from decontamination to where you can take your dog to pee after the apocalypse. The side that connects to the outdoors is actually the emergency exit, for when the marauders find the hatch in your basement and you need to get out the back so you can shoot them and turn them in to longpork jerky.
I admit that I have prepper tendencies. I see something like this and start thinking “what if?” And I do think it’d be useful to have a shelter in some areas, where you could ride out the first week or so of a disaster (whether that’s nuclear, biological, chemical, environmental, or zombie). You’re not going to survive in one of these for years, and if there’s a major disaster things aren’t going to be that much better in a week or two, so you’ve got to have a plan B.
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Thanks. I caught that later and posted about it subsequently.
Looking at their “mud room” I’m picturing how quickly it would fill up with trash and dog poo in an extended stay. Still better than no "mudroom at all. But, on the other hand, it is on the other side of the air tight blast door. So, should people be going out? Not sure.
These guys have a “training” shelter, which is apparently where the pictures of people shooting out of hatches are from. Playing pepper fantasies. Needs a hatch that lifts vertically on posts, along with a rim of armour, and maybe a Dillon mini-gun, if one is going to go all fantasy on the set up.
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######Sorry.
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Donald Dreadful in Kleptotown?
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Yield to my subscript powers !
I will only use my super power for good 
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