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Nuclear War... Could humans ultimately survive?

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  • #62
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 27,103 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

    That's the Toba event. About 70,000 years ago, it reduced the population of the planet to less than 10,000 humans, possibly as little as 1000 breeding couples. And yet here we are, back to nearly 7 billion.


  • #63
    evercloserunion
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    Nonsense OP. Nuclear holocaust would be the best thing to ever happen to us, as long as it was only the blacks what got killed of course.


  • #64
    pablomakaveli
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    Confab wrote: »
    Nope, but Bantry Bay was. The only nuclear target in Ireland.

    I remember my teacher telling us that the Russians would have hit Cork airport if a nuclear war broke out. Don't know where he heard that though or how true it is. I might do a bit of googling to see if there any truth in it.


  • #65
    Riamfada
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    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    I remember my teacher telling us that the Russians would have hit Cork airport if a nuclear war broke out. Don't know where he heard that though or how true it is. I might do a bit of googling to see if there any truth in it.

    You are from Cork, thats just Cork's educational system trying to put the city on the map of global importance :D


  • #66
    pablomakaveli
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    Grimes wrote: »
    You are from Cork, thats just Cork's educational system trying to put the city on the map of global importance :D

    We don't need to try. We're already on that map.;)


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  • #67
    WoollyRedHat
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    I don't know about the rest of the universe, but speaking on behalf of Ireland after observing what happens to us when snow falls on us, rest assured we would be absolutely fecked if nuclear war was ever to break out.


  • #68
    Manic Moran
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    baalthor wrote: »
    They were nuclear armed SAMs.

    I was visiting the restored Nike-Hercules siteach just north of San francisco and the guide was explaining how the SAM would be fired to intercept soviet bombers about 20 miles from sf. A visitor reacted in shock. ' wouldn't a detonation within 20 miles of the city result in unacceptable fallout?' The guide was struck dumb, I asked the guy just how acceptable the level of fallout would be from a soviet bomb detonating 300m above Golden Gate park.


  • #69
    Coriolanus
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    Manic Moran wrote: »
    I was visiting the restored Nike-Hercules siteach just north of San francisco and the guide was explaining how the SAM would be fired to intercept soviet bombers about 20 miles from sf. A visitor reacted in shock. ' wouldn't a detonation within 20 miles of the city result in unacceptable fallout?' The guide was struck dumb, I asked the guy just how acceptable the level of fallout would be from a soviet bomb detonating 300m above Golden Gate park.
    Haha, poor bastard.


  • #70
    Conor108
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    Whoever recommended watching 'Threads' earlier - That was massively depressing.


  • #71
    Riamfada
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    Conor108 wrote: »
    Whoever recommended watching 'Threads' earlier - That was massively depressing.

    Not half as bad as When the Wind Blows. Once I watched it as a child, thinking it was watching the Animals of Farthing Wood. You can imagine the resulting emotional damage.


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  • #72
    IvySlayer
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    Yup. Those iodine tablets will save us all :D


  • #73
    Celly Smunt
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    "I don't know what weapons would be used in WW3, but that WW4 would be fought with sticks and stones" :)


  • #74
    Riamfada
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    Also one can find the entire movie of threads here thanks to google video.


    Merry Christmas!!


  • #75
    veryangryman
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    Grimes wrote: »
    Not half as bad as When the Wind Blows. Once I watched it as a child, thinking it was watching the Animals of Farthing Wood. You can imagine the resulting emotional damage.

    Been there. Still i watched that as a kid and had no nightmares...partly because it only alludes to the horror.

    Threads is disturbingly distressing. Only watched that a year ago and cant bring myself to watch it again. The idea of the films theme is actually a worse idea than an appocolypse. You would hope to not survive something like that


  • #76
    Riamfada
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    veryangryman wrote: »
    Been there. Still i watched that as a kid and had no nightmares...partly because it only alludes to the horror.

    I think it was because I was expecting to see Mr Fox and Mr Badger and instead saw a lovely old couple try to survive radiation poisoning ....


  • #77
    bobblepuzzle
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    I wonder if the US military have devised a way to get around electromagnetic pulses destroying communications


  • #78
    IvySlayer
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    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    I wonder if the US military have devised a way to get around electromagnetic pulses destroying communications

    I solved it....I wrote a note.


  • #79
    bobblepuzzle
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    IvySlayer wrote: »
    I solved it....I wrote a note.

    Notes may take a while to be delivered :P Also, the unions would be demanding more money to deliver said notes, given all the radiation and such... like the DART drivers going on strike for more money to go to Malahide, and they got it!! any fool looking at a map knows its pretty much the same distance as Howth


  • #80
    galwayrush
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    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    I would imagine Shannon could be a target for a nuke... Dublin, I doubt it, no military or strategic function in attacking Ireland

    M . O Leary might target T 2:D


  • #81
    Coriolanus
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    bobblepuzzle wrote: »
    I wonder if the US military have devised a way to get around electromagnetic pulses destroying communications

    Hardened electronics, apparently AF1 has them as well.


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  • #82
    Unpossible
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    Bjorn Bored. wrote: »
    oh well i dont know about that now, how about an asteroid or a super volcano like that one in yellowstone,or how about a mega tsunami or even an earth crust displacement,not forgetting a good old fashioned solar flare which could wipe out all out electricity and communications for years thus rendering us useless,you see all in all nature has a lot more ways of destroying us than mankind has.
    Wouldn't that be a kicker, pockets of humans survive only to die in a freak volcano eruption or tsunami.


  • #83
    Cook my sock
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    Unpossible wrote: »
    Wouldn't that be a kicker, pockets of humans survive only to die in a freak volcano eruption or tsunami.

    you\ll have all the nuclear submarine countries bomb each other with nukes after the initial wave too. so volcano or tsunami wont matter, what doesnt kill us in round 1 will in round 2.


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