Come on, let’s have a nuclear war. It’s not that bad. It’s just the immediate destruction of all major population centres of the developed world and fallout that will haunt survivors for generations. It’s no big deal! Stop being such a chicken about it!
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The reality is: Nobody is sure, any nuclear bombing is species-wide suicide at worst, an insanely pointless gamble at best. The vague consensus seems to be it would take a maximum 100 warheads to irreversibly destroy ecology worldwide, some suggest it would only take a few modern warheads. I suggest we do all we can to not fucking find out.
B E T T E R City Planning!!!
Turns out stroad hell was a nuclear defense tactic all along
If the only people left in Amerikkka are gonna be the people who choose to live out in the exurbs, I think I’m okay with being vaporized
“TIL Nuclear Winter is almost impossible in modern times”
Cockroaches don’t tolerate low temperatures, so if humanity dies, cockroaches die too (except in tropics).
fair enough. Then the only other explanation is that this post was written by a sentient fungus
Better city planning
Suburban sprawl as a nuclear defense strategy is a new one to me lmao
That’s actually not that new. I think that was part of it.
It is important to remember why cities were building highways through the fifties and sixties; why the federal government was promoting low-density suburban development and why companies were moving their corporate head offices to campuses in the country: Civil defense. One of the best defenses against nuclear bombs is sprawl; the devastation of a bomb can only cover so much area. Shawn Lawrence Otto wrote in Fool Me Twice[.]
Problem with the suburban sprawl protects against nukes logic, is strategic nuclear warheads just got exponentially more powerful to compensate. Rather than 10 to 20 kiloton weapons that can wipe out the dense urban center of a major city, everyone started building 10,000 to 25,000 kiloton warheads that enable only a half dozen warheads to turn a few hundred square miles of suburban spawl into a firestorm.
The argument only made sense in the early 1950s before everyone figured out how to create multi megaton strategic nuclear weapons. Idiots fail to fully grasp just how powerful strategic nuclear weapons became.
oh you widened your city 50 miles? i’ll just stuff a few extra warheads in this here missile and make sure i saturate the whole thing 🥰
I’ve studied nuclear weapons. I’m no physicist but I’ve read pretty extensively on the after-effects.
These people are fucking stupid
Do they address why they have smaller yields? Because targeting systems are much more advanced. That’s it. That’s the reason. It’s like arguing it’s better to be shot in the heart with a single round rather than blasted with buckshot in the center of the chest. You’re still fucking dead.
I have a PhD in nuclear physics from a top 10 science guy university in the world, and I don’t believe nuclear armageddon is a problem. And I’m also not interested in discussing it (just so that no one comes with bs talking points, I’ve seen enough). I’m just saying this so that you don’t stumble on your own delusional bubble too much.
You don’t believe in science. You believe in TV. You haven’t read a single peer reviewed paper on the matter, let alone papers that have a different point of view. So spare me your condescending bullshit.
Now go ahead and downvote me so that you can sleep better at night after having excluded me, the infidel. Just remember that many people out there have degrees, educated and read 100 times on the matter than you and disagree with your delusions on the matter. Enjoy four faith in TV.
Is that a copypasta?
EDIT: Shit, it is. Worse, I saw the pasta being made, fresh, and lost track because there was so much of it.
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It’s here, but it’s been moderated and cleaned up a bit. I admit I baited the Very Mature and Very Important Scientist Doing Climate Denial Science for a while in it.
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When the Very Mature Climate Denial Nuclear Scientist rages about “gifs” and uses boomer tier emojis to rage about them
babe wake up new site taglines just dropped
Your post is totally useless and needlessly hostile.
It’s a copy paste from another thread where someone says he has a phd in particle physics and says this about climate change
Is that the same self described particle physicist that claims to have credientials ready to show (that somehow have something to do with climate change authority while also saying ecology is not a real scientific field) but demands a wager under dubious win conditions in Le Bitcoin before showing any evidence?
I’m getting rather concerned about all these “nuclear war isn’t that bad, actually” takes from libs
You mean you actually care about the world going up in an atomic hellstorm?But what about freedom and liberty as held to my own strange and self-destructive definition?
Make these people’ watch Thread because they seem to believe that not getting fried in the first strike is a win
They never know what it’s like to dig trench with shovel to build ‘‘bunker’’ that are more like 1.5 meter deep trench to prep for an eventual nuclear war
Did anyone else feel like the second Act of threads was a lot weaker than the first?
Spoilers
The bunker part was the most interesting part after the bombs dropped, and getting to watch them more would have been more interesting than the main woman IMO.
Their takeaway from Threads would be “look, there’s still people in the end! it’s not so bad!”
reddit people believe they are strong enough to do hard labor and not minced by cannibalistic tribe due to food shortage is unironic main character symptom
reddit people believe they are strong enough to do hard labor and not minced by cannibalistic tribe
The CEO of
fantasizes about being a slaver warlord in the fantastical Fallouterino wastes, and even bragged about getting his vision surgically corrected so he could “snipe looters.” 
unironic main character symptom
The cognitohazard plague of “what if everything simulation” and its almost inevitable followup “what if everyone but me and people I like are NPCs” is a part of that too.
Spez is absolutely someone who would think that and get instantly merced by his operator 2IC he hired under shady circumstances before the apocalypse.
“Don’t worry so much guys, we’re not gonna get Fallout’d! A few hundred million brown people across the world will die, so it won’t really be any different from normal!”
AND FALLOUT WAS LE EPIC TOO SO IT WOULD BE EPIC TO WANDER THE WASTES AS A LARPER WITH A GUN EXCEPT KILLING UNDESIRABLES FOR REAL
The Fallout games are fun but the world they present unfortunately appeals to the most insufferable sort of libertarian
The earlier games went pretty far out of their way to condemn not only nuclear war as a supernatural-level horror but also said the world that existed before the nuclear war was an unjust and terrible place that sort of had it coming.
By the time of Fallout 76, the pay-to-win big spending libertarians were encouraged to re-nuke the map to get bonus epic loot.
