AI6YR BenLet's punch this puppy into a website. One nuclear armed madman plus large city... Not including fallout. How many millions dead?
FreddyB Aviation Photography@ai6yr So the only flaw is that they would most likely use a Minuteman III which would have a nominal yield of 300KT
Jim Hubbell
D@ai6yr @driusan @cvvhrn
Fun little story from back in the day.
We would have air raid drills in junior high in the 60s. One fine day, our teacher said don't bother climbing under the chairs. Between March AFB and Norton on the other side of Box Springs mountain, there was no way any of us would survive. While probably true, that was less comforting than he intended.
Fun little story from back in the day.
We would have air raid drills in junior high in the 60s. One fine day, our teacher said don't bother climbing under the chairs. Between March AFB and Norton on the other side of Box Springs mountain, there was no way any of us would survive. While probably true, that was less comforting than he intended.
GinevraCat@Dougfir @ai6yr @driusan @cvvhrn 😂
I can't remember what the outside circumstances were - a big storm, I think- but I remember a kid in class asking me once if we were going to die.
I answered "Yes, eventually" without even thinking about it, and only after the horrified silence spread through the room did it occur to me that that wasn't the answer they wanted.
Chuck
GLCAgreed.
My child came running in tears during his fifth birthday party and asked if he was going to die (his little friend trundling behind was not reassuring: "Yes yes yes, everybody dies"). I told him "Yes—but I'll die first" and he went right back to playing cheerfully, existential angst fully at rest.
Anyway, it's nice to be useful like that.
@glc Ooh, you're a cosmology person. That was my masters topic a very, very long time ago. (Like, before the cosmic microwave background mapping and data was common)