the people who arguably affect the clock's position the most, are also the first to go out and wonder aloud why we all aren't having more children :P
We are now 90 seconds to our doom
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#12Does anyone take this seriously? Why?
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#13Clickbait title. Factual headline: "This is the closest humanity has ever been to its own annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists."
the thing I never understood about nuclear annihilation is that doesn't it mainly focus on urban areas? Just curious are there enough nukes in the world to wipe every square km of the earth? When nations scale their arsenal what's their budgeting rationale, to hit all the major cities of an opponent? Dropping a Tsar Bomba 17,080 km² https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ * Surface of North America 24.71 million km² * Su…
Kind of doesn’t matter. You’re probably luckier to get vaporized in a direct hit than the be on the outskirts in a world where the entire nuclear arsenal of the world has detonated somewhere on earth.
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#14OK. Now what?
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#15also happens to coincide with the amount of dreams i've been having of being wiped out by some huge bomb/nuke. very odd and in a way comforting because i find myself dying fully in my dreams, and thus giving me a bit more grappling power with the concept of death
Nuclear bomb energy dissipates by the square of the distance from the center. As with all things non-linear, humans (including me) have a really hard time intuiting non-linear phenomenon. Since I don't live in any major city, I've found nuclear war to be much less personally terrifying after using Alex Wellers' NUKEMAP https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ .
That said, it would be absolutely devastating -- I merely don't fear personal annihilation in my current locale, or the need to even _think_ about a nuclear shelter.
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#16Clickbait title. Factual headline: "This is the closest humanity has ever been to its own annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists."
the thing I never understood about nuclear annihilation is that doesn't it mainly focus on urban areas? Just curious are there enough nukes in the world to wipe every square km of the earth? When nations scale their arsenal what's their budgeting rationale, to hit all the major cities of an opponent? Dropping a Tsar Bomba 17,080 km² https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ * Surface of North America 24.71 million km² * Su…
I think it's meant to focus on urban areas and military installations. 50% of the US population lives in 1% of the area, so around 240,000 square km, and that would cover almost all of the decision makers, wealthy people, politicians, supply chain centers, etc. Then there is the resulting civilization breakdown and weather conditions for the rest of the population.
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#17Would be hard for Maiden to write a song with this
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#18Clickbait title. Factual headline: "This is the closest humanity has ever been to its own annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists."
the thing I never understood about nuclear annihilation is that doesn't it mainly focus on urban areas? Just curious are there enough nukes in the world to wipe every square km of the earth? When nations scale their arsenal what's their budgeting rationale, to hit all the major cities of an opponent? Dropping a Tsar Bomba 17,080 km² https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ * Surface of North America 24.71 million km² * Su…
You don't need to nuke every literal single square inch of the world to kill a majority of the population. Remove enough governments and the world will become anarchy. Destroy a lot of infrastructure and suddenly no goods, food, or water gets transported. Contaminate the sky and ground enough, and agriculture won't grow.
If you live in some tiny corner of the world, off the grid, grow your own food, without any dependencies on the outside world, you might survive for a while. But it won't be the world we live in today.
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#19Clickbait title. Factual headline: "This is the closest humanity has ever been to its own annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists."
the thing I never understood about nuclear annihilation is that doesn't it mainly focus on urban areas? Just curious are there enough nukes in the world to wipe every square km of the earth? When nations scale their arsenal what's their budgeting rationale, to hit all the major cities of an opponent? Dropping a Tsar Bomba 17,080 km² https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ * Surface of North America 24.71 million km² * Su…
don't neglect the fallout, and the nuclear winter
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#20Eventually we’re going to have to go down to microseconds and nanoseconds, infinitesimally splitting the final instant, just to keep reminding people this thing still exists.