I asked this of a friend while hiking the other day in jest, but who knows? I joked that I probably wouldn’t have a lot of time, and given I would probably be in shock… the best I could get out might be, “Well, fuck.”
How about you?
Well fuck
Looks like a fun-g(uy)i
If there’s one thing I know from every dicey situation I’ve ever been in, including in the military, it’s that you never know what your brain will pull out of its darkest reaches when you least expect it.
Statistically most common last words are “Oh shit.”, but you never know.
nice thing i always remember in the fd: if it’s going to kill you, you’d be dead. (hazmat, fire, etc) So don’t worry and do what you’re there to do.
in the case of OP, relaxing and dying is probably all i’d do. i have people “up there” waiting for me anyway. 🤷♀️
I remember when I was in the Navy, I wasn’t paying attention once and stood up into a bundle of cables running along the overhead. Part of it sliced my scalp open and blood was pouring down my face. I stood there completely flabbergasted with my mind an utter and complete blank, and the only thing that came out of my mouth, completely unprompted, was “Shit in God’s beard!”
No idea why. I had never said it before or ever since. Brains are weird.
That’s a great one! Mine was “fuck a duck! Fuck ten ducks, actually.” My friends never let me live that one down.
damn! also ouch.
PSA: when you cut the excess off a zip tie, the remaining nub can be razor sharp.
for. real.
…are there statistics on that?
Oh thank God.
I came here to post this! Nicely done.
Respect
I love that movie.
Which movie is that?
Waterworld!
But you need to watch the Ulysses cut. Not the theatrical, not the Director’s. The Ulysses.
I was walking along a scenic trail in my city a few years ago. This particular spot had a spectacular eastern view, so I stopped to take in the last of what seemed to be a spectacular sunset.
It took my moronic ass about 15 seconds to remember that the sun usually sets in the west. So what was that red orange glow on the horizon?
A wildfire? No, I’d have heard about that.
Must be a… Nuke? What else would make that much light that fast. It had blown and I was seeing the burning destruction in its wake.
I spent the next minute or so basically shitting myself. Trying to figure out which way the fallout would blow. Thinking about all the emergency drinking water and food I never stocked. Thinking how horrific a death radiation sickness would be.
I was straight up having a panic attack!
Well then the most glorious blood moon I ever seen came up over the horizon. Huge and glowing orange.
I learned a bit about myself that day. Mostly that I am unlikely to thrive in any sort of apocalypse type situation. And that I’m a moron. Moon was cool though!
How far away? If I’m in the vaporisation zone, I would lie down and relax, if I’m in the radiation poisoning zone, I’d get as fast as I could towards the vaporisation zone :p
If you can see the cloud, you’re outside the vaporization zone. And the only thing you’ll accomplish is walking deeper into the radioactive zone. Kind of sounds like you’re taking what appears to be 70 plus percent survival chances and turning them into 0% survival chances.
Wait, you guys want to survive it?
I down to see the mutants, the zombies, the hot rod racing war bands, the increasingly intelligent apes. But if it just ends up being cancer and eating rats… meh, I’ll bail.
‘Barefoot Gen’ makes it look quite ugly. And it was apparently written by a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing.
I think that was literally the idea
You wouldn’t know if you were in the radiation poisoning zone though.
Like you’ve almost certainly been irradiated but, enough that you’ll die a horrible death in 5 days? Or merely enough to increase your risk of cancer in 40 years?
If you go close enough to ground zero, that should speed up the process a bit.
Yes but my point is, most people are somewhere in between those extremes, and you won’t really know which end you’re nearest to.
Find your iodine tablets
And Prussian blue!
Huh til
Good question. I think it is if you are in the blast zone
Cloud? So it’s Death As A Service?
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“Oh, that’s a big one!”
If that was here in Finland, I would of course be scared because you need a lot of explosives to produce a mushroom cloud, and that would probably mean that:
- our military has been storing a sizable part of its munitions in one place AND
- one our eastern neighbours has apparently developed a will to rid our army of its munitions.
…which would mean that some country would be planning to attack us soon.
So, I would probably start preparing for a war. Maybe go buy a lot of food, at least?
In some country further from the Russia I would probably assume it’s something non-military. Maybe some form of a very large fertilizer storage? It would be kind of less scary, but of course that would mean a decreased farming output for the next season, and that would be shitty.
Respect that your brain didn’t go straight to nuclear
👍
It’s a giant mushroom! Maybe it’s friendly!
All jokes aside, I am in an area where I’d most likely die from it, so wouldn’t be saying many bad things and more along the lines of how fortunate I’d be to not have to live after the clock strikes midnight.
Might as well drink up on the cactus juice while you still can. It is the quenchiest after all.
You’ll see the bright flash first, at which point you can’t waste time and need to take cover from the coming blast. Which probably includes hurling up with your eyes closed. If you somehow survive the blast you can’t waste time looking at the cloud and need to find shelter from the fallout within 15 minutes. During this time, if you spot the cloud, you’ll probably be speechless and too busy.
There goes the neighborhood
If they end up dropping nukes I hope one falls on my head. I don’t want to survive nuclear war.
You and me both
So the fun part about nuclear proliferation is it’s no longer a world ending full out exchange.
So for example if Iran had one and decided to use it, it would be like one bomb on Israel or mar-a-lago or something. Most of us would survive it and be dealing with the effects for a generation or more
Then the question would be what would us do? End it? Respond in kind? END THEM? How evil will we have to see ourselves? Or if Israel did, would we finally start asking questions instead of blind support?
Are nukes really that precise at this point? I honestly had no idea.
But I don’t trust the US or Israel to show any kind of restraint once one gets let off the chain.
Do they need to be precise?
- I imagine Iran has missiles that can hit a city in Israel, assuming it doesn’t get shot down
- since they wouldn’t have many and can expect huge response from Israel, they might try smuggling
- us is tougher to reach so more likely smuggled into whatever harbor, so yeah, how precisely can you park a container truck?
Stay in the light Carol-Ann! Well, walk into it anyways.
About time.
