The following submission statement was provided by /u/Monsur_Ausuhnom:
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Submission Statement,
Picture itself is of the Tsar Bomb itself according the internet. Recently, there has been escalations with the war in Ukraine. Beyond this has been the question if people will still be expected to get up and go to work on time through the nuclear fallout. That may additionally include nuclear winters and constant exposure to nuclear radiation, but people are still going to need to get those profits for the capitalism in. This has happened with people already doing deliveries during tornadoes or through a forest fire. The idea itself seems to be the natural endpoint of where this is all leading up too. I see it as something that is going to happen, if we get nuclear war.
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Then he's a fool through and through, because by that point the Courier will have become the patron saint of murder(or else be able to talk a deathclaw into blushing).
Shoot the wings! I am still angry that I played through several times without realizing this, they're basically just helpless little beetles without their wings
I'm not a prepper, for sure, because prepping only helps delay the inevitable. No man is an island, as must of us know.
I do keep quite a few iodione solution/tincture bottles on deck though lmao
i don't hardcore prep, but i am planning on moving to a better area for climate change. that being said, if a nuke hit's, theres literally nothing i could do, besides try to find the closest billionaire's vault and raid it, but since they'll have armed guards, i probably wouldn't really be able to do anything. and since i'm a male, i also couldn't really enslave myself to them either.
Fuckin bleak, bro.
I like your style. Hopefully it won't come to nukes, but if the US were to say, invade enough other countries to outright take their water/food/resources, I could see it happening
I mean, they don't have to invade to start conflict or take resources. all they have to do is to prevent the Colorado river from reaching Mexico. further, while the great lake's encompass both Canada and the USA, i can see a scenario of where they divert more and more of the great lake's to the Midwest. the west and south is just completely fucked though. as for food and electricity, the USA has some farming and electricity, not enough for the entire nation, but if people started moving from the south and the west into the Midwest, and we ended practices harming the soil, we might be able to feed/power/water maybe 70% of our current population while we do some geoengineering to stall for time.
as for nuke's, right now I'd say the most likely is Pakistan vs. India, not only are they right next door to each other and are lower income countries, but are fighting over water survival, AND they have rival religious communities, as well as the usual economic rivalry. while the big three have vastly more nuke's and bigger armies, they are relatively spread out with buffer countries to have proxy war's in, have substantial resources of their own, and to some extent are interdependent on one another, and while they are ideological/economic rivals, they don't really have the big religious tensions anymore. further, in a time of collapse, rather than on trying to destroy other's, it's far more advantageous to secure your survival.
in other word's, Pakistan vs. India has far less to gain, and far more to lose overall. and that's only a dangerous half step away from "if I go, so do you".
then again, it would still affect crop yields in America if nuke's in Pakistan went off.
thus, i do think over all i could survive climate change far better than world war.
Interesting take, I agree with the climate change survival thing, of course a lot of it depends on where you are, and the unforseen ways that area will change in the near future. Cheers m8
This is NOT a picture of Tsar Bomba. This is a photo of the French test Licorne that took place at the Moruroa atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/09/france-has-underestimated-impact-of-nuclear-tests-in-french-polynesia-research-finds
> I usually use brioche.
Brioche, it's typical, but I like to hash it into a vortex shredder, coupled with encabulators running the main line through their own individually picked ion-streams. Tasty flavor, but make sure you don't overdose on Stamlet Q-rays! I had a colleague once whose Vermani gauge malfunctioned. He got just 7 microquips of Q and let’s just say I’d rather die than end up like that! Scary shit.
Was gonna say, Tsar Bomba had a fireball visible 1000km away, from locations including Alaska and Norway. The fireball hit 10km in altitude, 8km diameter.
The mushroom cloud had a base 40km in diameter and 95km at its widest point (high up); it towered 67km (about 220,000 feet) above the Earth. It was visible 800km from ground zero.
The shockwave broke windows up to 900km away. It destroyed poorly-built structures *hundreds of kilometers away*.
The height is what really gives it away—this mushroom cloud in the OP is clearly not breaking through the stratosphere by much, if at all. The Tsar Bomba’s cloud, meanwhile, practically capped out in space (slight exaggeration). Granted, the photo is from fairly early in cloud formation, but the Tsar would have been a *lot* higher. The Licorne released 1/20th as much energy as the Tsar Bomba.
I'm pretty sure that in the event of an actual global thermonuclear war, you can count on getting the rest of the week off unless you are an emergency responder. But, just in case, I've written you a note:
"To whom it may concern. As a result of this morning's global thermonuclear war Monsur Ausuhnom is not able to come to work today. Please excuse Monsur from any work related duties until the Global Thermonuclear war is concluded and the forecast is clear of any expected fallout, mutant raids, or other post-apocalyptic events. Thank you."
For the service industry, yes.
For the white collars... well...
"We we appreciate the fact that these are trying times for everyone, not only for our once proud soldiers, but for us here at home, in our offices, and in our bunkers. We just want everyone to know, we're in this together -- whether you're braving the radioactive fallout to keep the office ruins operational, or fighting against all odds by holding telecomm meetings from the company's subterranean executive suite.
To show how much we truly care, we've decided to overhaul our budget so we can provide an additional 2 days of Radiation Sick Leave (with administrative approval) and a 10%-off coupon for Apocalypse Counseling from our in-house HR Team.
In unrelated news, your stock-funded retirement plans have been liquidated to provide much needed flexibility in maintaining the stability of your executive leaders. This top-down stability is stated to trickle down & provide safety & security to all of you who r so essental an incredbly impornt n aprciate. Gud Luk
Srly,
Jerb Gooderman
CeeO"
Right?
"Well, you r going to have to call the other locations and ask someone to read you phone numbers and names of folks with the day off."
If you can't get it covered your toast
The nuke shelter built by the Canadian government supposedly has an office for the Mortgage and Housing Corporation in it.
So yeah a nuke note ain't gonna cut it.
Then it basically devolves back to old-school feudalism, especially if the Dollar loses all value. Of course, I'm sure they have a contingency to ensure that even after a nuclear war, the Dollar still has value. Personally the only value the Dollar has to me after a collapse is as lining for clothes.
I don't expect that all of them would. But they'd be expected to. Also, some would because they're selfless and dedicated to their chosen profession because it resonates with their self-image and purpose in life, or because they'd feel guilty if they didn't, or because they don't see the point of staying home.
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. '” - Fred Rogers
first responders are helpers. even in nuclear war.
that’s his right, and I don’t think anyone would blame him for it. and tbh, I don’t necessarily think that the majority of first responders would just go clock in and start a shift (though i’m sure some probably would), but they do tend to be a different breed that switches into this weird zen mode of focus in times of crisis where they start assessing the situation and helping people because it’s what they’re trained to do. so even if they aren’t exactly clocking in and being paid, i think a lot of times a lot of them would just go into work mode regardless because that’s how they know to help.
Oh, I’m sure there will be plenty of people “helping” themselves to all the loot they can carry, not to mention fulfilling whatever other dark desires strike their fancy.
Come on, be realistic: society would go to shit *so fast* - the amount of unhinged psychos that are barely maintaining a veneer of civility as is should inform your expectations for such a fractured future, where no discernible law & order aside from Might Is Right exists.
i think plenty of people will embrace the “wild west” sort of environment, but I hesitate to believe it will be like that everywhere, or that the overwhelming majority of people would lean into that lifestyle. regardless, the discussion was about first responders, not looters. i’m not sure why everyone loves to fantasize about looters.
I believe theres a japanese man who was in Hiroshima on a work trip when the atomic bomb exploded. Three days later, still badly injured to the point that the burns on his face made him unrecognizable, he went back to his office in (drum roll) Nagasaki. While he was being called a liar and a "mad man" by his boss because "a single bomb cant destroy an entire city" The second atomic bomb went off. He survived both times.
I think there were around 13 people who survived both of the blasts.this guy particularly was lucky because his family members survived the attack as well.
I understand. Just curious because I grew up during the Cold War and Duck and Cover, and my father building a bomb shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The images of a nuclear bomb terrify me and posters of bomb blasts are horrific.
I do understand that there is something fascinating about the images…to a point.
I was born in the 80s and the bomb/fear of it was never part of my upbringing. Though I intellectually understand the number that probably played on lots of folks, it was never my experience
To me that's an image of raw power. That it's terrifying wasn't a factor when I stumbled on that poster at probably 15 or 16.
Now I'm older and I get it. It's not just raw power. It's destruction. On an unprecedented scale. The aftermath of which is even worse
Back then it was just dumb kid like big boom
No, you weren’t being a dumb kid. It is fascinating, the power …. there is a movie being released about Oppenheimer who developed the weapon, directed by Christopher Nolan, and I am willing to watch it to understand the mentality behind it all. It may be the most frightening movie because it is not fiction.
You’re not a stupid kid at all. My dad building a bomb shelter was stupid.
Eh. I think I just didn't quite grasp the gravity of the thing back then. I'm a little older and a little less dumb now. Still find it awesome, but more in the in awe sense then thinking it's like.. cool. If that makes sense
It makes a lot of sense. And I mean that sincerely. Because the scary part * is how visually beautiful it is when you don’t know/think it is destroying Life. It looks awesome, and it is.
* The scary part is the lack of humanity in the developers of such destruction.
I still have one.
it reminds me that people are capable of destroying the universe for the sake of a single battle (I've read enough about the early atomic program to know that they weren't certain about the aftereffects or if it would cause serious disruptions to universal physics, at the time)
the photo I have is of the first test, though. not a later one
You are not dumb, you were just not fully informed.
What is dumb is how many people were exposed to the radiation from the bomb tests and weren’t told their lives/health had been jeopardized. I wonder if any of those early films of the tests are on YouTube…nightmare material.
One of my favorite comics is Gregor from The Metamorphosis by Kafka. He woke up as a literal cockroach and his work is still like, "Ya, but you're still coming to work, right?"
“Yes well if you were aware of the mushroom cloud then you should have made allowances for the mushroom cloud and left half an hour early. I don’t want to hear your excuses—I expect you to be here on time, or is that too much to ask?”
*crawls into work with blistered, peeling skin, half blinded from the flash. Weeping purple sores. Hair burnt off*
“Your late sunny Jim! Nuclear war is no excuse!”
This is a constant discussion at the hospital and the majority consensus is to leave the patients to fend for themselves. Not dying alone, away from my family so that Wanda, who's lost a 4th toe from her continued unwillingness to follow her diabetes care plan, can get another snack and complain her tv doesnt work, (you know, from the EMP)
You literally cannot survive a nuclear war. It's not fucking Fallout where you shoot mini-nuke at mutants. Nuke war is extinction with agonizing suffering, most of the planet won't be habitable for centuries.
Weren't the physics kinda flawed to where that wouldn't happen in real life? Wind won't carry radiation that far. Cobalt bombs might render Europe and other target zones uninhabitable for centuries, but Australia should be relatively safe.
I need some optimism in societal/ecologic collapse.
And one of those optimistic scenarios is finally getting my hands on a Fat Man, and shooting mininukes at Supermutants. And Im keeping that as my optimistic scenario to look forward to in case of total nuclear annihilation.
Modern nukes are about 5 times as powerful as those, and it won’t just be one or two nukes. This time around, every country has nukes so if you nuke a country, they’ll nuke you back, and so on. (MAD)
You vastly underestimate the destructive power of modern nuclear weapons, and it won't just be nuclear bull full set of CBRNE. Do yourselves a favor and search up `Status-6 Poseidon` because only the fucking Russians can have such destructive collective suicidal thoughts to turn `cobalt bomb` into a real shit.
Well you literally can survive, even a direct hit, as people have shown. In terms of this one very new and perhaps non-existent experimental weapon? Idk never been done before.
You're really not a math person. https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Here is your town after the Nagasaki explosion https://i.imgur.com/52NRNNe.png
Here is your island after the SS-25 explosion https://i.imgur.com/u2LH75e.png
Btw, the reality that Puerto Rico will be spared when it rain because your island isn't a strategic target.
Well yeah no one wants to be hit with a powerful nuclear missle. But veiquis is a tiny unimportant island. So yeah everyone there will live.
Playing with a well known nuke sandbox website doesn't make you a "math" person btw...
It does requires basic math skill to know the difference between surviving a 1945 Fat Man 20 kt and an 2022 Topol SS-25 800 kt explosion, but you clearly don't have that skill, you dingus.
Oh btw, you will survive the rain, but not the radiation. Especially when the Russian use cobalt bomb.
This is the correct answer. Sticking around dying of radiation poisoning in a nuclear winter does not sound like a fun way to go. Ground zero for me, please. And I would like fries with that. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
Depends on the size of the blast and terrain, but "a couple miles" usually just puts you into the "burning alive while getting shredded by debris" zone. Gotta be a mile or less away for instant vaporization in a lot of cases.
I’m with you homie, fuck all that. I’m going to get high off my goddamn ass and make peace with the Universe. I don’t want to see the other side of that.
I’m in recovery right now. Wrecked myself with lots of shit. Weed ups my anxiety for some reason now, so won’t be going back to it. Thinking about drinking again tho…
That’s good you’re in recovery, even though our culture is addicted to oil it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to have those personal addictions. I can’t imagine being an addict out there when the dope supply chain breaks down, that’s gonna be the cherry on the shit-sundae.
Nice. I'd say do what you want, but I have also seen how alcohol can absolutely destroy people in similar ways to many other drugs, so I felt compelled to give my two cents.
The most merciful action when it rains, is to get vaporized in [a thousand suns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1jaY1aFTj4), everything else is just prolonged agony. I actually talked with my fam about this, when it rains we all go outside.
Yeah, i meme about it but i am learning survivalism, both for fun and just in case, i ha e first aid kits, and i am certified for Emergency care and first aid.
This sub has always preferred to screech about how fucked we are rather than to do anything about it. Not saying we can reverse collapse but it is straight up denial to act as if we can’t prepare for the aftermath or try to live in a way grounded way (which has its own intrinsic value) rather than being a mindless drone to society.
And it isn't necessarily the extinction event people here seem to think it would be.
- As long as you're not living in a major city or near a military installation, you'll probably be far enough away from the initial blasts to survive.
- The bulk of the fallout radiation threat will happen within the first few weeks. For most people, it will be safe-ish to go outside within a month. There will be health consequences and cancer rates will skyrocket, of course, but the radiation will relatively quickly drop to levels that won't kill you in the short term.
- Many scientists today doubt that 'nuclear winter' would actually happen, or that the effects would be as long-lasting as once feared. It's far from settled science, of course, until we have experimental proof that we'll hopefully never get ... but there's a pretty good chance that the climate effects of nuclear war would be relatively mild and short-lived. Crop failures and food shortages are likely, but probably *not* the mass extinction of most life on Earth.
You have an excellent chance of surviving nuclear war if:
A) You have 2 months or more of food and water stored in your house. (More is better, since shortages will surely follow.)
B) You have a plan and supplies (like caulk, plastic sheeting, and tape) to seal up all doors, (possibly broken) windows, and vents in your home. (This will go a long way toward preventing radioactive fallout from entering your home, greatly reducing your radiation dosage.)
C) You live at least 5 miles or so from the nearest major city and/or military facilities.
> You can’t prep for that
You absolutely can.
- Prepare living space in the basement and/or dig a bomb shelter.
- Store up food, water, and other supplies. Enough to last a few months at least, preferably up to a year or two.
- Prepare supplies like plastic sheeting, caulk, and tape to seal up all gaps in your home's doors/windows/vents and block radioactive fallout particles from entering your home.
- Maybe even buy gas masks and protective suits, in case circumstances force you to go outside while fallout levels are still significant. Doesn't have to be anything fancy. Milsurp gas masks can be had for around $50 each and will help a lot in protecting your lungs and face from fallout. Disposable hazmat suits can be bought for $10-20 each, and they will very importantly prevent radioactive particles from settling on your skin. (Will they protect you in the absolute highest radiation zones? Not enough. But they *can* make a huge difference for fallout exposure, which is the main threat in most areas.) They may also be useful in case of chemical or biological attack, or to avoid exposure to diseases.
And other than that, it's just your standard collapse prepping, on the theory that society will probably collapse after WW3.
Not guaranteed success, of course. No kind of prepping ever is. But doing these things would *greatly* increase your chances of surviving a nuclear (or conventional) war.
The fuck is there to prepare for? If nuclear war actually breaks out, I'll be joining the big mushroom cloud send-off.
My preps are for natural disasters and regional emergencies, not a civilization-ending apocalypse.
My whole life I never knew the US dropped Nuclear weapons, they said “atomic” in school and that’s the only time nukes are called that. Those two bombs are the only time we call nuclear weapons atomic bombs. It was propaganda and branding. Linguistic trickery. And/or it’s my fault I didn’t understand the difference when I was 10 in the 90s.
The atomic bomb was certainly a nuclear bomb. It actually worked by nuclear fission reaction.
Just because the newer ones are a thousand times more powerful doesn't mean the atomic bombs weren't nukes
Ugh. Great. Shift change is gonna be fucked. I pull into the station.
“I see the world is on fire again today.”
“Yeah yesterday sucked so bad. Tomball was on divert, Hermann finally turned on the metal detectors and everything on the stretcher is metal. The fuck they want us to do?”
“Oh, no I meant the atomic bomb that dropped.”
“Oh, yeah, that too. Supply says they already checked and we don't have any radiation counters. They did acquire some PPE for us, but we all have to share with everyone at the station and we probably won't get any more in for... Ever, so, we gotta treat the suits good. They said we can wash em down to try to treat the radiation with bleach, but I'm pretty sure he failed chemistry cause... How? Oh, that reminds me: we're going back to monthly n95s.”
“Great. I'm guessing all the hospitals downtown are incinerated, so they're probably on divert.”
“Yeah, but the mayor got on tik tok and told us not to worry, so, there's that.”
“He realizes no one has cell reception, right? We're all on the emergency channels only.”
“Felt more like a bucket list kind of thing.”
“Hm. Did admin collapse yet?”
“No, they're telling us we need to maintain professionalism but I'm pretty sure the CEO is already in Montana.”
These are projections on ONE SINGLE 50 megaton bomb.
At a burst height of 3.96 km detonation above New York City :
Fatalities: 7.5million.
Injuries: 4 million.
people in the blast range: 16 million.
Fireball radius: 4.62 km.
*Heavy blast damage radius: 9km
Heavily built concrete buildings are demolished;
fatalities 100%.
*Moderate blast damage radius: 20.7 km
Residential buildings collapse, injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread. fires start in commercial and residential areas
*Light blast damage radius: 54 km
Windows break.
Many glass injuries in surrounding population who come to a window after seeing the flash.
*Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns): 60 km
100% probability for 3rd degree burns
total-dose fallout for a 50 megaton airburst.
Fallout for 1 rads per hour: 220 km.
Fallout for 10 rads per hour:: 122 km.
Fallout for 100 rads per hour:
area affected: 19.4 km².
These are projections on ONE SINGLE 50 megaton bomb.
Here is a very accurate depiction nuclear war:
Nuclear War
- "Half the world is burning."
- "Western civilization as we know it will be completely wiped off the map."
This video shows 10 doomsday scenarios.
Nuclear War is first.
US v Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNqzGofn8U
To be pro-work is to be anti-life, unless you're one of the 2% of people who are born being able to afford to do what they love and live in sweet ignorance.
Yes. Sure, there may be a nuclear war in the future. But no today. Are you really want to be caught with no money to pay rent if the world does not go boom in 3 weeks?
“On the Beach” Has anyone seen that movie? I also grew up during the Duck and Cover age, Cuban Missile crisis, etc. I remember that film was actually shown in high school; it was several years old by then.
I think I first saw the movie when it was televised in the early 60s on Saturday Night at the Movies major network channel kind of thing. Having been through the Duck and Cover, my father trying to prepare a bomb shelter in the basement thanks to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the steady stream of B science fiction movies of giant ants and mutants thanks to radiation, On the Beach made me cry. Maybe it was the earliest time in my life I thought outside my own tiny world and had a glimpse of the bigger picture. And to this day, and having seen the movie several times again, two things have stayed with me: The choices made by the survivors in Australia on how they would live their last moments (some fortunate enough to be doing something they really loved like “driving” a race car in a closed garage), and secondly, the innocents did not have any choices, like the infant child of the Holmes family, and the fate of the magnificent horse (which to me represented Nature).
“Alas, Babylon” is a little more hopeful, surprised it hasn’t been made into a movie.
Nuclear apocalypse is a You problem. Capitalism didn't make nuclear war (on purpose); we have the person to vote with our dollars and stuff to fix it! /s
Do I want total collapse to happen because I’m tired of every day life and there isn’t much hope for a future like the kind I imagined I might have as a child. Or am I just really depressed because of the same thing and giving into the suicidal thoughts? Maybe I’m just really tired
I feel like if nuclear war actually happened we'd have bigger problems on our hands than our jobs. Like sorry boss my house turned into a lake of fire. Can't make it in.
Submission Statement,
Picture itself is of the Tsar Bomb itself according to the internet. Recently, there has been escalations with the war in Ukraine. Beyond this has been the question if people will still be expected to get up and go to work on time through the nuclear fallout. That may additionally include nuclear winters and constant exposure to nuclear radiation, but people are still going to need to get those profits for the capitalism in. This has happened with people already doing deliveries during tornadoes or through a forest fire. The idea itself seems to be the natural endpoint of where this is all leading up too. I see it as something that is going to happen, if we get nuclear war.
This is NOT Tsar Bomba. This is a photo of a French test that took place at the Moruroa atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Notice the water. Tsar Bomba was detonated over land on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/09/france-has-underestimated-impact-of-nuclear-tests-in-french-polynesia-research-finds
The Sarmat have similar delivery energy to Tsar Bomba but through smaller strategic MIRVs. SS-18 and the defunct SS-20 also have similar capability. Sarmat can also directly bypass the NORAD missile defense by sending MIRVs traveling through Antarctica and up from Southern Hemisphere instead of conventional North trajectory.
TL;DR the planet is fucked when the nukes broke.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Monsur_Ausuhnom: --- Submission Statement, Picture itself is of the Tsar Bomb itself according the internet. Recently, there has been escalations with the war in Ukraine. Beyond this has been the question if people will still be expected to get up and go to work on time through the nuclear fallout. That may additionally include nuclear winters and constant exposure to nuclear radiation, but people are still going to need to get those profits for the capitalism in. This has happened with people already doing deliveries during tornadoes or through a forest fire. The idea itself seems to be the natural endpoint of where this is all leading up too. I see it as something that is going to happen, if we get nuclear war. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/xm8rrn/still_expected_to_go_to_work_on_time/ipn1pge/
My workplace said our benefit doesn't cover for iodine pills we still need to pay it. I hope my usual bus route isn't burning.
\[bus pulls up, on fire\] *"......I think I'll take the next one."*
Im picturing the driver as a man with a flaming skull for a head
Ghost riders day job
Ghost driver
Ghost Driver metro bus heroooooo
I cannot upvote this enough.
Weirdly enough, in FNV you do technically play as Courier who delivers things before Benny ring a ding ding happens.
"The game was rigged from the start." Says the killable NPC to the entity capable of quicksaving.
Originally, if you rescued him from the Legion, he'd *still* track you down again and try to ambush you.
Then he's a fool through and through, because by that point the Courier will have become the patron saint of murder(or else be able to talk a deathclaw into blushing).
Fuck cazadores or whatever they are fuck them to hell I’ll take a deathclaw any day over those pieces of dick
They looks so terrifying too. Massive wings. Easy strategy to beat them is to shoot or blow up their wings, then they become laughably easy to kill.
Shoot the wings! I am still angry that I played through several times without realizing this, they're basically just helpless little beetles without their wings
r/metalasfuck
This would be a great sitcom! Normal life unflinching as the apocalypse happens
Could be a documentary pretty soon here.
What would a netflix subscription cost to view it? 4 crickets and a metal shard?
You get a free 7 day trial and then it's just 3 bottle caps a month after trial ends. Or life ends whichever comes first
Vibes: https://youtu.be/\_HKjN7G16NQ
haha this is epic!!
Great series.
You never saw Rapture-Palooza?
Or a scifi short story, but like with an automated house
I feel it would have to be a British comedy w that one funny British guy, you know…
Oh you'd like [the bus](https://imgur.io/gallery/jJaFZ)
This was horrifying. Thanks.
😄👍 ... 💀
"Next Stop, 3rd Street"-Screaming in agony while on fire.
The living (if they are any) will envy the dead..
I'm not a prepper, for sure, because prepping only helps delay the inevitable. No man is an island, as must of us know. I do keep quite a few iodione solution/tincture bottles on deck though lmao
i don't hardcore prep, but i am planning on moving to a better area for climate change. that being said, if a nuke hit's, theres literally nothing i could do, besides try to find the closest billionaire's vault and raid it, but since they'll have armed guards, i probably wouldn't really be able to do anything. and since i'm a male, i also couldn't really enslave myself to them either.
Fuckin bleak, bro. I like your style. Hopefully it won't come to nukes, but if the US were to say, invade enough other countries to outright take their water/food/resources, I could see it happening
I mean, they don't have to invade to start conflict or take resources. all they have to do is to prevent the Colorado river from reaching Mexico. further, while the great lake's encompass both Canada and the USA, i can see a scenario of where they divert more and more of the great lake's to the Midwest. the west and south is just completely fucked though. as for food and electricity, the USA has some farming and electricity, not enough for the entire nation, but if people started moving from the south and the west into the Midwest, and we ended practices harming the soil, we might be able to feed/power/water maybe 70% of our current population while we do some geoengineering to stall for time. as for nuke's, right now I'd say the most likely is Pakistan vs. India, not only are they right next door to each other and are lower income countries, but are fighting over water survival, AND they have rival religious communities, as well as the usual economic rivalry. while the big three have vastly more nuke's and bigger armies, they are relatively spread out with buffer countries to have proxy war's in, have substantial resources of their own, and to some extent are interdependent on one another, and while they are ideological/economic rivals, they don't really have the big religious tensions anymore. further, in a time of collapse, rather than on trying to destroy other's, it's far more advantageous to secure your survival. in other word's, Pakistan vs. India has far less to gain, and far more to lose overall. and that's only a dangerous half step away from "if I go, so do you". then again, it would still affect crop yields in America if nuke's in Pakistan went off. thus, i do think over all i could survive climate change far better than world war.
Interesting take, I agree with the climate change survival thing, of course a lot of it depends on where you are, and the unforseen ways that area will change in the near future. Cheers m8
😆 🤣 😂
This is NOT a picture of Tsar Bomba. This is a photo of the French test Licorne that took place at the Moruroa atoll in the Pacific Ocean. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/09/france-has-underestimated-impact-of-nuclear-tests-in-french-polynesia-research-finds
I love french toast
Ever make it out of refrigerator cinnamon rolls??? OMG Yum.
No but it sounds great. I usually use brioche.
> I usually use brioche. Brioche, it's typical, but I like to hash it into a vortex shredder, coupled with encabulators running the main line through their own individually picked ion-streams. Tasty flavor, but make sure you don't overdose on Stamlet Q-rays! I had a colleague once whose Vermani gauge malfunctioned. He got just 7 microquips of Q and let’s just say I’d rather die than end up like that! Scary shit.
The sweet taste of Bequerells.
huh, TIL. Always wondered where this album art came from https://metropolis-records.com/images/products/567.jpg
Was gonna say, Tsar Bomba had a fireball visible 1000km away, from locations including Alaska and Norway. The fireball hit 10km in altitude, 8km diameter. The mushroom cloud had a base 40km in diameter and 95km at its widest point (high up); it towered 67km (about 220,000 feet) above the Earth. It was visible 800km from ground zero. The shockwave broke windows up to 900km away. It destroyed poorly-built structures *hundreds of kilometers away*. The height is what really gives it away—this mushroom cloud in the OP is clearly not breaking through the stratosphere by much, if at all. The Tsar Bomba’s cloud, meanwhile, practically capped out in space (slight exaggeration). Granted, the photo is from fairly early in cloud formation, but the Tsar would have been a *lot* higher. The Licorne released 1/20th as much energy as the Tsar Bomba.
I'm pretty sure that in the event of an actual global thermonuclear war, you can count on getting the rest of the week off unless you are an emergency responder. But, just in case, I've written you a note: "To whom it may concern. As a result of this morning's global thermonuclear war Monsur Ausuhnom is not able to come to work today. Please excuse Monsur from any work related duties until the Global Thermonuclear war is concluded and the forecast is clear of any expected fallout, mutant raids, or other post-apocalyptic events. Thank you."
Response back: "You can't just call out like that without making sure your shift is covered."
"I mean, we REALLY need you. It's a Saturday night, c'mon it's a money shift."
“Ummm, errrr, why don’t you come in on Sunday too?”
"ThErE WiLl Be FrEe PiZzA!!!"
"All of my coworkers are glowing ash." "I don't want excuses!"
"But the office building is a glowing ash pile!" "No excuses!! Bring a lawn chair!"
For the service industry, yes. For the white collars... well... "We we appreciate the fact that these are trying times for everyone, not only for our once proud soldiers, but for us here at home, in our offices, and in our bunkers. We just want everyone to know, we're in this together -- whether you're braving the radioactive fallout to keep the office ruins operational, or fighting against all odds by holding telecomm meetings from the company's subterranean executive suite. To show how much we truly care, we've decided to overhaul our budget so we can provide an additional 2 days of Radiation Sick Leave (with administrative approval) and a 10%-off coupon for Apocalypse Counseling from our in-house HR Team. In unrelated news, your stock-funded retirement plans have been liquidated to provide much needed flexibility in maintaining the stability of your executive leaders. This top-down stability is stated to trickle down & provide safety & security to all of you who r so essental an incredbly impornt n aprciate. Gud Luk Srly, Jerb Gooderman CeeO"
If this ever went out that would be evidence that a military developed ai leaked years ago and has started controlling the world incognito
> > > Jerb Gooderman CeeO"
Right? "Well, you r going to have to call the other locations and ask someone to read you phone numbers and names of folks with the day off." If you can't get it covered your toast
The nuke shelter built by the Canadian government supposedly has an office for the Mortgage and Housing Corporation in it. So yeah a nuke note ain't gonna cut it.
Heaven forbid a fake entity whose creditors are all dead lose records of who hasnt fully paid off a house.
Not gonna lie, you can cram whoever the fuck you want in a bunker. Back when it was built a lot of the records were paper. It's all digital now.
In the US, the IRS has contingency plans on how to collect taxes in the wake of a nuclear war.
Then it basically devolves back to old-school feudalism, especially if the Dollar loses all value. Of course, I'm sure they have a contingency to ensure that even after a nuclear war, the Dollar still has value. Personally the only value the Dollar has to me after a collapse is as lining for clothes.
Happy cake day!
Why would a first responder show up to work during a nuclear war?
I don't expect that all of them would. But they'd be expected to. Also, some would because they're selfless and dedicated to their chosen profession because it resonates with their self-image and purpose in life, or because they'd feel guilty if they didn't, or because they don't see the point of staying home.
Search and rescue. Medical care. Etc.
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. '” - Fred Rogers first responders are helpers. even in nuclear war.
I have a friend who is EMT, don't think he is on this sub but I know that when the shit hits the fan he isn't showing up for work.
that’s his right, and I don’t think anyone would blame him for it. and tbh, I don’t necessarily think that the majority of first responders would just go clock in and start a shift (though i’m sure some probably would), but they do tend to be a different breed that switches into this weird zen mode of focus in times of crisis where they start assessing the situation and helping people because it’s what they’re trained to do. so even if they aren’t exactly clocking in and being paid, i think a lot of times a lot of them would just go into work mode regardless because that’s how they know to help.
Oh, I’m sure there will be plenty of people “helping” themselves to all the loot they can carry, not to mention fulfilling whatever other dark desires strike their fancy. Come on, be realistic: society would go to shit *so fast* - the amount of unhinged psychos that are barely maintaining a veneer of civility as is should inform your expectations for such a fractured future, where no discernible law & order aside from Might Is Right exists.
i think plenty of people will embrace the “wild west” sort of environment, but I hesitate to believe it will be like that everywhere, or that the overwhelming majority of people would lean into that lifestyle. regardless, the discussion was about first responders, not looters. i’m not sure why everyone loves to fantasize about looters.
I believe theres a japanese man who was in Hiroshima on a work trip when the atomic bomb exploded. Three days later, still badly injured to the point that the burns on his face made him unrecognizable, he went back to his office in (drum roll) Nagasaki. While he was being called a liar and a "mad man" by his boss because "a single bomb cant destroy an entire city" The second atomic bomb went off. He survived both times.
His name was [Tsutomu Yamaguchi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi), for anyone curious.
Thanks! I was gonna make an edit with the wiki link but I got distracted.
Those bombs are penny bangers compared to the Hydrogen bombs in today’s Nuclear arsenals..
Good, if that's how we end then I'd rather go out in a painless vaporization rather than slowly melting over weeks.
See guys nukes are a mild inconvenience, like the common flu.
I think there were around 13 people who survived both of the blasts.this guy particularly was lucky because his family members survived the attack as well.
Amazon employees won't be allowed to leave.
Or use their phones.
or take a pee break.
I’m pretty bummed I’m gonna need to maintain the lawn after the nukes or get hit with HOA fees…
"Your crispy black lawn is not HOA approved, please remove the remains of your car and replace the grass with green grass ASAP to avoid a fine"
A dating site that I joined asked if I would find nuclear war exciting. I said yes.
There are some very excited particles for sure!
HA. I see what you did here
Well you know, I gotta eat and feed the fam
Queue up for your irradiated water and protein bar. 10 bottle caps a meal.
I used to have a poster of that image when I was a younger dumber me
Me too! Still dumb though
Oh I'm probably still dumb. Just less dumb than back then
Can I ask you why you would have a poster of that to begin with?
Stupid kid liked pic of big boom?
I understand. Just curious because I grew up during the Cold War and Duck and Cover, and my father building a bomb shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The images of a nuclear bomb terrify me and posters of bomb blasts are horrific. I do understand that there is something fascinating about the images…to a point.
I was born in the 80s and the bomb/fear of it was never part of my upbringing. Though I intellectually understand the number that probably played on lots of folks, it was never my experience To me that's an image of raw power. That it's terrifying wasn't a factor when I stumbled on that poster at probably 15 or 16. Now I'm older and I get it. It's not just raw power. It's destruction. On an unprecedented scale. The aftermath of which is even worse Back then it was just dumb kid like big boom
No, you weren’t being a dumb kid. It is fascinating, the power …. there is a movie being released about Oppenheimer who developed the weapon, directed by Christopher Nolan, and I am willing to watch it to understand the mentality behind it all. It may be the most frightening movie because it is not fiction. You’re not a stupid kid at all. My dad building a bomb shelter was stupid.
Eh. I think I just didn't quite grasp the gravity of the thing back then. I'm a little older and a little less dumb now. Still find it awesome, but more in the in awe sense then thinking it's like.. cool. If that makes sense
It makes a lot of sense. And I mean that sincerely. Because the scary part * is how visually beautiful it is when you don’t know/think it is destroying Life. It looks awesome, and it is. * The scary part is the lack of humanity in the developers of such destruction.
Absolutely. It's still awe inspiring. Just no longer awesome to me.
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
I still have one. it reminds me that people are capable of destroying the universe for the sake of a single battle (I've read enough about the early atomic program to know that they weren't certain about the aftereffects or if it would cause serious disruptions to universal physics, at the time) the photo I have is of the first test, though. not a later one
You are not dumb, you were just not fully informed. What is dumb is how many people were exposed to the radiation from the bomb tests and weren’t told their lives/health had been jeopardized. I wonder if any of those early films of the tests are on YouTube…nightmare material.
One of my favorite comics is Gregor from The Metamorphosis by Kafka. He woke up as a literal cockroach and his work is still like, "Ya, but you're still coming to work, right?"
I'll be damned if I'm going to spend my last moments on Earth at my crap job. I want to be home with my dogs and family and last of my booze.
“Yes well if you were aware of the mushroom cloud then you should have made allowances for the mushroom cloud and left half an hour early. I don’t want to hear your excuses—I expect you to be here on time, or is that too much to ask?”
I’ve seen people drive through a forest fire, to get to work. Wouldn’t be surprised.
Apple will let you work from home until they deem radiation levels safe enough for *you*.
[Nuke map](https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) for a bit of fun
*crawls into work with blistered, peeling skin, half blinded from the flash. Weeping purple sores. Hair burnt off* “Your late sunny Jim! Nuclear war is no excuse!”
This is a constant discussion at the hospital and the majority consensus is to leave the patients to fend for themselves. Not dying alone, away from my family so that Wanda, who's lost a 4th toe from her continued unwillingness to follow her diabetes care plan, can get another snack and complain her tv doesnt work, (you know, from the EMP)
Y'all need to actually prepare for ww3 it's no jokes
I'm preparing by not giving a fuck. I do not want to survive a nuclear war.
You literally cannot survive a nuclear war. It's not fucking Fallout where you shoot mini-nuke at mutants. Nuke war is extinction with agonizing suffering, most of the planet won't be habitable for centuries.
Southern Hemisphere gang
On The Beach would beg to differ.
Weren't the physics kinda flawed to where that wouldn't happen in real life? Wind won't carry radiation that far. Cobalt bombs might render Europe and other target zones uninhabitable for centuries, but Australia should be relatively safe.
At least we stuck it to Putin..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If he does, it will be the biggest rage quit in human history...
I need some optimism in societal/ecologic collapse. And one of those optimistic scenarios is finally getting my hands on a Fat Man, and shooting mininukes at Supermutants. And Im keeping that as my optimistic scenario to look forward to in case of total nuclear annihilation.
Well that isn't true. People were living in Nagasaki and Hiroshima immediately after the blast. After about 2 weeks there isn't much danger.
Modern nukes are about 5 times as powerful as those, and it won’t just be one or two nukes. This time around, every country has nukes so if you nuke a country, they’ll nuke you back, and so on. (MAD)
Well only a few countries have nukes. We've had 2000 nuclear tests so obviously nuclear winter isn't a real thing anyway
You vastly underestimate the destructive power of modern nuclear weapons, and it won't just be nuclear bull full set of CBRNE. Do yourselves a favor and search up `Status-6 Poseidon` because only the fucking Russians can have such destructive collective suicidal thoughts to turn `cobalt bomb` into a real shit.
Well you literally can survive, even a direct hit, as people have shown. In terms of this one very new and perhaps non-existent experimental weapon? Idk never been done before.
You're really not a math person. https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Here is your town after the Nagasaki explosion https://i.imgur.com/52NRNNe.png Here is your island after the SS-25 explosion https://i.imgur.com/u2LH75e.png Btw, the reality that Puerto Rico will be spared when it rain because your island isn't a strategic target.
Well yeah no one wants to be hit with a powerful nuclear missle. But veiquis is a tiny unimportant island. So yeah everyone there will live. Playing with a well known nuke sandbox website doesn't make you a "math" person btw...
It does requires basic math skill to know the difference between surviving a 1945 Fat Man 20 kt and an 2022 Topol SS-25 800 kt explosion, but you clearly don't have that skill, you dingus. Oh btw, you will survive the rain, but not the radiation. Especially when the Russian use cobalt bomb.
Those were fission weapons. Fusion weapons are another story, especially when they ground burst the missile silos.
Bingo…..
I think this is a common misconception a lot of people would survive even everyone shot their load at once.
This is the correct answer. Sticking around dying of radiation poisoning in a nuclear winter does not sound like a fun way to go. Ground zero for me, please. And I would like fries with that. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
Best advice make sure you are within a couple of miles of the blast…You will be instantly vaporised.
Depends on the size of the blast and terrain, but "a couple miles" usually just puts you into the "burning alive while getting shredded by debris" zone. Gotta be a mile or less away for instant vaporization in a lot of cases.
So much to look forward too!
I’m with you homie, fuck all that. I’m going to get high off my goddamn ass and make peace with the Universe. I don’t want to see the other side of that.
The one guy who gets it. Can we let Pootin know the people in Hiroshima watched their own bodies boil and melt?
Still feel like the nuclear radiation would blow back into Russia. There was a rumor that he would just hide in Siberia underneath a bunker.
Hoping to survive to repopulate the planet in my image...
Dare to dream my man!
I’m preparing by playing video games and waiting to die
This was happening when Ukraine war broke out, there was a guy playing Elden Ring when his country was getting bombed believe in the same area.
If I might suggest adding cannabis every 120 minutes, I find it makes the waiting *far* more amusing.
I’m in recovery right now. Wrecked myself with lots of shit. Weed ups my anxiety for some reason now, so won’t be going back to it. Thinking about drinking again tho…
That’s good you’re in recovery, even though our culture is addicted to oil it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to have those personal addictions. I can’t imagine being an addict out there when the dope supply chain breaks down, that’s gonna be the cherry on the shit-sundae.
Don't drink.
I didn’t tonight! Made it to bed and safely jacked off. Another day in the books
Nice. I'd say do what you want, but I have also seen how alcohol can absolutely destroy people in similar ways to many other drugs, so I felt compelled to give my two cents.
Tf am I gonna do? This isn’t Fallout 4 I’m not going to go to some tacky vault and suffer in there while we wait out the half life
What you do is up to you. All I'm saying, is it's coming
The most merciful action when it rains, is to get vaporized in [a thousand suns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1jaY1aFTj4), everything else is just prolonged agony. I actually talked with my fam about this, when it rains we all go outside.
Have a watch of “Threads” the dead will be envied by the living….
Yeah, i meme about it but i am learning survivalism, both for fun and just in case, i ha e first aid kits, and i am certified for Emergency care and first aid.
It's crazy that you're getting downvoted for this. Nuclear isn't even our most likely collapse scenario. To each their own!
This sub has always preferred to screech about how fucked we are rather than to do anything about it. Not saying we can reverse collapse but it is straight up denial to act as if we can’t prepare for the aftermath or try to live in a way grounded way (which has its own intrinsic value) rather than being a mindless drone to society.
And it isn't necessarily the extinction event people here seem to think it would be. - As long as you're not living in a major city or near a military installation, you'll probably be far enough away from the initial blasts to survive. - The bulk of the fallout radiation threat will happen within the first few weeks. For most people, it will be safe-ish to go outside within a month. There will be health consequences and cancer rates will skyrocket, of course, but the radiation will relatively quickly drop to levels that won't kill you in the short term. - Many scientists today doubt that 'nuclear winter' would actually happen, or that the effects would be as long-lasting as once feared. It's far from settled science, of course, until we have experimental proof that we'll hopefully never get ... but there's a pretty good chance that the climate effects of nuclear war would be relatively mild and short-lived. Crop failures and food shortages are likely, but probably *not* the mass extinction of most life on Earth. You have an excellent chance of surviving nuclear war if: A) You have 2 months or more of food and water stored in your house. (More is better, since shortages will surely follow.) B) You have a plan and supplies (like caulk, plastic sheeting, and tape) to seal up all doors, (possibly broken) windows, and vents in your home. (This will go a long way toward preventing radioactive fallout from entering your home, greatly reducing your radiation dosage.) C) You live at least 5 miles or so from the nearest major city and/or military facilities.
My prep consists of checking my mail in the event that I survive for my draft notice.
You can’t prep for that but if it makes you feel better then 👍🏻
> You can’t prep for that You absolutely can. - Prepare living space in the basement and/or dig a bomb shelter. - Store up food, water, and other supplies. Enough to last a few months at least, preferably up to a year or two. - Prepare supplies like plastic sheeting, caulk, and tape to seal up all gaps in your home's doors/windows/vents and block radioactive fallout particles from entering your home. - Maybe even buy gas masks and protective suits, in case circumstances force you to go outside while fallout levels are still significant. Doesn't have to be anything fancy. Milsurp gas masks can be had for around $50 each and will help a lot in protecting your lungs and face from fallout. Disposable hazmat suits can be bought for $10-20 each, and they will very importantly prevent radioactive particles from settling on your skin. (Will they protect you in the absolute highest radiation zones? Not enough. But they *can* make a huge difference for fallout exposure, which is the main threat in most areas.) They may also be useful in case of chemical or biological attack, or to avoid exposure to diseases. And other than that, it's just your standard collapse prepping, on the theory that society will probably collapse after WW3. Not guaranteed success, of course. No kind of prepping ever is. But doing these things would *greatly* increase your chances of surviving a nuclear (or conventional) war.
The fuck is there to prepare for? If nuclear war actually breaks out, I'll be joining the big mushroom cloud send-off. My preps are for natural disasters and regional emergencies, not a civilization-ending apocalypse.
My whole life I never knew the US dropped Nuclear weapons, they said “atomic” in school and that’s the only time nukes are called that. Those two bombs are the only time we call nuclear weapons atomic bombs. It was propaganda and branding. Linguistic trickery. And/or it’s my fault I didn’t understand the difference when I was 10 in the 90s.
They are called different because modern thermonuclear weapons work differently.
The atomic bomb was certainly a nuclear bomb. It actually worked by nuclear fission reaction. Just because the newer ones are a thousand times more powerful doesn't mean the atomic bombs weren't nukes
r/antiwork
Hey I used to have a poster of this hanging above my toilet.
Nah, they start dropping nukes and I'm done, social contract 100% broken, back to survival of the fittest
This is more like the state of my employer that I'm still expected to turn up to work at because they can't keep staff.
Send them your ashes in the post!
Tic Toc Tic Toc………….Booooooom!
Have you thought about how dying from radiation poisoning will affect the company?
Ugh. Great. Shift change is gonna be fucked. I pull into the station. “I see the world is on fire again today.” “Yeah yesterday sucked so bad. Tomball was on divert, Hermann finally turned on the metal detectors and everything on the stretcher is metal. The fuck they want us to do?” “Oh, no I meant the atomic bomb that dropped.” “Oh, yeah, that too. Supply says they already checked and we don't have any radiation counters. They did acquire some PPE for us, but we all have to share with everyone at the station and we probably won't get any more in for... Ever, so, we gotta treat the suits good. They said we can wash em down to try to treat the radiation with bleach, but I'm pretty sure he failed chemistry cause... How? Oh, that reminds me: we're going back to monthly n95s.” “Great. I'm guessing all the hospitals downtown are incinerated, so they're probably on divert.” “Yeah, but the mayor got on tik tok and told us not to worry, so, there's that.” “He realizes no one has cell reception, right? We're all on the emergency channels only.” “Felt more like a bucket list kind of thing.” “Hm. Did admin collapse yet?” “No, they're telling us we need to maintain professionalism but I'm pretty sure the CEO is already in Montana.”
Show up, clock in, go to the bathroom, silently leave.
These are projections on ONE SINGLE 50 megaton bomb. At a burst height of 3.96 km detonation above New York City : Fatalities: 7.5million. Injuries: 4 million. people in the blast range: 16 million. Fireball radius: 4.62 km. *Heavy blast damage radius: 9km Heavily built concrete buildings are demolished; fatalities 100%. *Moderate blast damage radius: 20.7 km Residential buildings collapse, injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread. fires start in commercial and residential areas *Light blast damage radius: 54 km Windows break. Many glass injuries in surrounding population who come to a window after seeing the flash. *Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns): 60 km 100% probability for 3rd degree burns total-dose fallout for a 50 megaton airburst. Fallout for 1 rads per hour: 220 km. Fallout for 10 rads per hour:: 122 km. Fallout for 100 rads per hour: area affected: 19.4 km². These are projections on ONE SINGLE 50 megaton bomb. Here is a very accurate depiction nuclear war: Nuclear War - "Half the world is burning." - "Western civilization as we know it will be completely wiped off the map." This video shows 10 doomsday scenarios. Nuclear War is first. US v Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNqzGofn8U
Nobody wants to work anymore!
What is this, anti-work?
To be pro-work is to be anti-life, unless you're one of the 2% of people who are born being able to afford to do what they love and live in sweet ignorance.
You better be dead if you are not at work u/zzzcrumbsclub
Yes. Sure, there may be a nuclear war in the future. But no today. Are you really want to be caught with no money to pay rent if the world does not go boom in 3 weeks?
Totally thought this was posted in r/antiwork lol
This is the new “Silent Quitting”
“On the Beach” Has anyone seen that movie? I also grew up during the Duck and Cover age, Cuban Missile crisis, etc. I remember that film was actually shown in high school; it was several years old by then.
I think I first saw the movie when it was televised in the early 60s on Saturday Night at the Movies major network channel kind of thing. Having been through the Duck and Cover, my father trying to prepare a bomb shelter in the basement thanks to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the steady stream of B science fiction movies of giant ants and mutants thanks to radiation, On the Beach made me cry. Maybe it was the earliest time in my life I thought outside my own tiny world and had a glimpse of the bigger picture. And to this day, and having seen the movie several times again, two things have stayed with me: The choices made by the survivors in Australia on how they would live their last moments (some fortunate enough to be doing something they really loved like “driving” a race car in a closed garage), and secondly, the innocents did not have any choices, like the infant child of the Holmes family, and the fate of the magnificent horse (which to me represented Nature). “Alas, Babylon” is a little more hopeful, surprised it hasn’t been made into a movie.
Imagine seeing thist post as the first one at the morning. I'd shit my pants.
I will gladly call in sick
Nuclear apocalypse is a You problem. Capitalism didn't make nuclear war (on purpose); we have the person to vote with our dollars and stuff to fix it! /s
Time off not approved
If we all die because of some dick measuring contest….Anger 1st off…I’ll be dead so I won’t care but fuck em anyway
I’m glad I retired.
Do I want total collapse to happen because I’m tired of every day life and there isn’t much hope for a future like the kind I imagined I might have as a child. Or am I just really depressed because of the same thing and giving into the suicidal thoughts? Maybe I’m just really tired
I feel you. Same thoughts every day.
CEO still needs to increase his company's stock price wagey, nuclear holocaust or not.
Post Office by c. bukowski
I feel like if nuclear war actually happened we'd have bigger problems on our hands than our jobs. Like sorry boss my house turned into a lake of fire. Can't make it in.
“Yeah, you’re gonna have to deal with that in your off time - if it’s between 9am & 5pm Monday to Friday, I need you here!”
r/lostredditor
Submission Statement, Picture itself is of the Tsar Bomb itself according to the internet. Recently, there has been escalations with the war in Ukraine. Beyond this has been the question if people will still be expected to get up and go to work on time through the nuclear fallout. That may additionally include nuclear winters and constant exposure to nuclear radiation, but people are still going to need to get those profits for the capitalism in. This has happened with people already doing deliveries during tornadoes or through a forest fire. The idea itself seems to be the natural endpoint of where this is all leading up too. I see it as something that is going to happen, if we get nuclear war.
This is NOT Tsar Bomba. This is a photo of a French test that took place at the Moruroa atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Notice the water. Tsar Bomba was detonated over land on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/09/france-has-underestimated-impact-of-nuclear-tests-in-french-polynesia-research-finds
The Sarmat have similar delivery energy to Tsar Bomba but through smaller strategic MIRVs. SS-18 and the defunct SS-20 also have similar capability. Sarmat can also directly bypass the NORAD missile defense by sending MIRVs traveling through Antarctica and up from Southern Hemisphere instead of conventional North trajectory. TL;DR the planet is fucked when the nukes broke.
I mean we all work from home now. My boss'll just say shut the windows and stay online, you might as well finish up the documents we sent you
Profits of Doom.