Am I nukeable?
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@loopback0 said in Am I nukeable?:
Based on my work IP address they'd take out London. Which is fine. I neither work nor live there.
Based on mine, they'd take out Dallas. Which would be unfortunate, since that's about where TFF is every year, but unless they nuked Dallas in a six-day time frame, they'd miss me entirely.
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@Polygeekery said in Am I nukeable?:
Missed me by more than 10 miles.
I cross-checked it with Google Maps. 17.7 miles.
I would probably be safe, except for the fallout and mutants.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Am I nukeable?:
A year later they can just walk in and take over all buildings and infrastructure from a seriously diminished population.
Only one of the reasons for keeping a 6-months supply of food and other supplies at home.So that you can starve after half a year instead of right away?
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about 1km away, so long and thanks for all the fish.
it's a lot better than it used to be( about 30km)
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@PleegWat said in Am I nukeable?:
unsure how to easily calculate straight-line distance on google maps.
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Work missed me by 4 miles. I suspect home will be even more.
Both locations would be densely populated.
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@CoyneTheDup said in Am I nukeable?:
total damage radius of the Hiroshima explosion was a mile)
We've.... blown past that radius... for a while now.
Consider all of yourselves nukeable.
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@RaceProUK said in Am I nukeable?:
Roughly 300 miles off when I view from my work machine
Within ten miles when I do it at home
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@xaade except when I'm at work!
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@Gurth said in Am I nukeable?:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Am I nukeable?:
A year later they can just walk in and take over all buildings and infrastructure from a seriously diminished population.
Only one of the reasons for keeping a 6-months supply of food and other supplies at home.So that you can starve after half a year instead of right away?
Stockpiling more than 6 months worth of food supplies is a completely different ballgame, and if I haven't got my own food production up and running after six months I'm pretty doomed anyway.
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I grew up in Worcester (one of the many English towns that USians mangle the pronunciation of).
It's a pretty famous city and historically very important, but not much fun for a teenager to live in.
Not sure how accurate this is, but I remember hearing that due to its close proximity to the SAS base at Hereford^, GCHQ at Cheltenham, and some radar stuff for the RAF in Malvern, it was a top-priority target for a nuke.
^ Still annoyed that Sean Bean allowed De Niro to pronounce this one so horribly in Ronin.
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@ben_lubar I have 'never' been there in winter ;) not once. I wonder if it's like Omaha though? I swear when you get a burst of 35 mile an hour winds at 0 degrees, its like your balls and your face are getting machete'd off at the same time while having the air sucked from your lungs so you can't scream or warn others. There is no escape, not for your balls!!! or your face!!!
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@Frank Stop walking around in winter with your balls out
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@loopback0 The balls are covered its just that sneaky machete wind, it finds a weakness in your trousers and exploits it!
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@Magus It's a 2000-year-old city - it's probably had a fair few names and pronunciations in that time :)
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@coldandtired INB4: Towcester, Bicester etc.
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@loopback0 Cholmondeley
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@RaceProUK That's the two syllable one, right?
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@Magus Chumlee, yep ;)
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Work is about 150 miles off. Home... is pretty close, definitely enough that a strike such as that described would be cause for concern.
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@coldandtired said in Am I nukeable?:
I grew up in Worcester (one of the many English towns that USians mangle the pronunciation of).
@Magus said in Am I nukeable?:
@coldandtired said in Am I nukeable?:
Wor
cesterwuhstuh sounds dumb, though!
@RaceProUK said in Am I nukeable?:
@loopback0 Cholmondeley
@Magus said in Am I nukeable?:
@RaceProUK That's the two syllable one, right?
@RaceProUK said in Am I nukeable?:
@Magus Chumlee, yep ;)
I used to blame the
FrenchNormans for the spelling problems of English. I think it's time I blamed the English.
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@CoyneTheDup said in Am I nukeable?:
Maybe even that farm in Kansas.
Wait, does this involve an infinitely sharp sword and a chromed ex-soldier? Yeah, the owner of the land was down in Antarctica moping over his dead wife when it happened, but boy was he peeved when he heard about it...
Filed under: Jason Robards wasn't very happy either but at least he managed to duck down into the wheel well of his car
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It's 50km+ from my actual location. I think I'm safe. :P
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Damn, I wanted to go for the hat trick but apparently my memory was off - A Canticle for Lebowitz was set in Arizona, not Kansas. Oh, well.
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@Frank said in Am I nukeable?:
@ben_lubar I swear when you get a burst of 35 mile an hour winds at 0 degrees, its like your balls and your face are getting machete'd off at the same time while having the air sucked from your lungs so you can't scream or warn others. There is no escape, not for your balls!!! or your face!!!
Try 25 MPH at −30°F. (Leiter WY) Clothing on the upwind side tends to feel like gauze.
@ScholRLEA said in Am I nukeable?:
Wait, does this involve an infinitely sharp sword and a chromed ex-soldier?
No. Read the linked article in the topic head.
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@Frank said in Am I nukeable?:
that sneaky machete wind, it finds a weakness in your trousers and exploits it!
Lazy wind that doesn't bother to go around you and just blows straight through you
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@CoyneTheDup said in Am I nukeable?:
@ScholRLEA said in Am I nukeable?:
Wait, does this involve an infinitely sharp sword and a chromed ex-soldier?
No. Read the linked article in the topic head.
Gee, what's that sound? Is it a bird? Or a plane?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzMNaUcnt9g
Filed Under: I'm not sure who is pulling whose leg right now, TBH
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@Weng They can't lookup your job and then nuke that. That's even easier to trace than your home.
We're all domed... ahem. doomed.... DOOOOOOOMMMMMEEDDDD
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@Frank said in Am I nukeable?:
weakness in your trousers
Seriously, though, have you heard of thermal underwear?
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@ScholRLEA said in Am I nukeable?:
Damn, I wanted to go for the hat trick but apparently my memory was off - A Canticle for Lebowitz was set in Arizona, not Kansas.
The Day After was set in Kansas.
... well Kansas City at least, not sure which "side" of it.
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Here's a more interesting experiment: would you be able to escape an impending nuclear attack?
Open the Nukemap and simulate a single Topol (SS-25) on the center of each nearby large city (let's say more than 100,000 inhabitants?). Assuming you have a 15 minute warning (which is a lot more than you'd probably get), would you be able to get out of the thermal radiation zone? Keep in mind the roads will most likely be unusable, but if you're a fast runner and live away from the center you might be able to make it.
Alternatively, buy a cheap-ish personal helicopter today and you'll be ready to escape the apocalypse.
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@anonymous234 said in Am I nukeable?:
Keep in mind the roads will most likely be collapsed,
Why? Is the nuclear attack coming right after a huge earthquake?
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@blakeyrat Sorry, me fail English bad. I meant they will be unusable due to being jammed with cars.
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@anonymous234 said in Am I nukeable?:
Assuming you have a 15 minute warning
Yeah, I'm toast. With all the large towns around here, I don't think I could clear the area on a no-traffic day. Let alone mass panic. (We have lots of experience with clogged roads - just try leaving the Bay area on a fri afternoon!)
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@anonymous234 said in Am I nukeable?:
Here's a more interesting experiment: would you be able to escape an impending nuclear attack?
Open the Nukemap and simulate a single Topol (SS-25) on the center of each nearby large city (let's say more than 100,000 inhabitants?). Assuming you have a 15 minute warning (which is a lot more than you'd probably get), would you be able to get out of the thermal radiation zone? Keep in mind the roads will most likely be unusable, but if you're a fast runner and live away from the center you might be able to make it.
I've heard say in this case getting one or more large buildings between yourself and the impact site is your #1 priority, more so than distance. And indeed the roads will be clogged - I'll be taking my bicycle. No large buildings around here though.
Regarding emergencies I'd prep for, a dike breach is the more likely one to occur. In that case, what to do depends on expected maximum water level. Unless your dwelling is likely to be completely submerged, your best bet is staying put and (after the storm has settled) hang a white sheet out of your window to signal the presence of survivors.
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@blakeyrat Lawrence, KS, and Kansas City, MS, actually. That's what the reference to Jason Robards (who played one of the main roles in the TV movie) was about (though my memory was off, he only just lay down on the driver's seat, rather than climbing into the pedal well). I was looking for a third example to reference for, as I said, the hat trick.
Fun Fact: Most uses of stock nuclear test footage have one or more clips from shot Upshot-Knothole Grable, the (in)famous test of the 'Atomic Annie' 280mm howitzer. Because the test was heavily documented for effects calibration (well, almost all the tests were, but this one was more so than most), and because the low burst height of the test shell resulted in an unusually strong precursor wave (a phenomenon that hadn't really been noticed before then, as most airdrops were too high to form a precursor, and tower tests were too low and the popcorning got swamped by the Mach stem before a precursor could form), the footage is both extensive and dramatic.
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@mott555 said in Am I nukeable?:
Missed me by 302 miles. Lol, sorry Kansas, I don't even live in you but you're going down if someone tries to nuke me.
Uh-oh, my city is covered in smoke that supposedly blew in from Kansas 'wildfires.' Did someone try to nuke me?
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@xaade said in Am I nukeable?:
@Weng They can't lookup your job and then nuke that. That's even easier to trace than your home.
We're all domed... ahem. doomed.... DOOOOOOOMMMMMEEDDDD
Which is the last one? Because I'd rather be domed...
@anonymous234 said in Am I nukeable?:
Here's a more interesting experiment: would you be able to escape an impending nuclear attack?
Open the Nukemap and simulate a single Topol (SS-25) on the center of each nearby large city (let's say more than 100,000 inhabitants?). Assuming you have a 15 minute warning (which is a lot more than you'd probably get), would you be able to get out of the thermal radiation zone?Depends on a lot of assumptions. If one strike in downtown Orlando, I would be already safe, barely, at home. Eight blocks. Depends heavily on the exact target point. I don't want to try it.
If they decide Orlando metro is big enough for two strikes, with the second in Altamonte Springs, I'm toast.
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@ScholRLEA I assume you mean Kansas City, MO, not MS. MS is Mississippi.
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@mott555 said in Am I nukeable?:
@ScholRLEA I assume you mean Kansas City, MO, not MS. MS is Mississippi.
OK, that was a brainfart. You're absolutely right.