What would you do, if this were you? - Page 2

Billo_Really · 09-25-07, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by cherokee
Gee I wonder what group of people in the world today would like to set off a nuke in LA? I bet it’s not the Jamaicans. Unless it’s an atomic bong.

I had one of those.

During my Grass Period.

You cough a lot!

Billo_Really · 09-25-07, 12:34 AM

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Originally posted by RightOfCenter
That guy's ****ed in a few seconds isn't he? Is signal hill far enough away to avoid the blast?

20 miles on the 405.

15 as the crow fly's.

cherokee · 09-25-07, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by jfuh

I'm going to play the devils advocate here for a moment. IF for a moment it were some fracked up nut head scientist from Los Alamos or where ever who thought that LA/Hollywood was the cause of America straying away what s/he perceived as traditionalist American culture of whatever then decided to blow up this nuke in LA to "kill all the liberalist hippies".
Would you still have the same desire of nuking the country and or host country?

PS good to see you well and about.

How many homegrown groups do you know of that would like to set a nuke offon US soil? I can’t name any...

Thanks, it’s good to be back..

jfuh · 09-25-07, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by cherokee

How many homegrown groups do you know of that would like to set a nuke offon US soil? I can’t name any...

Thanks, it’s good to be back..

I can't name any either, it's simply a hypothetical scenario.

RightOfCenter · 09-25-07, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Billo_Really

20 miles on the 405.

15 as the crow fly's.

So I would be ****ed, correct?

rivrrat · 09-25-07, 10:34 AM

Looks like I'd still be in the blast wave radius. In which case, I'd quickly sit down, light up a cig, and await my inevitable death.

Volker · 09-25-07, 10:37 AM

Lay down at the belly, head away from where the explosion takes place, hide your head with the hands or with something you find, do it fast. The blast could get over you at this place, maybe the heatwave, too, there is some distance to the radiation source.

If you already see a mushroom, than it's pretty late to do something, I guess, however there were pictures of soldiers at nuclear test who were pretty close and survived for the beginning.

jfuh · 09-25-07, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Volker

Lay down at the belly, head away from where the explosion takes place, hide your head with the hands or with something you find, do it fast. The blast could get over you at this place, maybe the heatwave, too, there is some distance to the radiation source.

If you already see a mushroom, than it's pretty late to do something, I guess, however there were pictures of soldiers at nuclear test who were pretty close and survived for the beginning.

That is if the shockwave does not shred you to pieces or the vacuum of does not explode you.

Thales · 09-25-07, 12:35 PM

It completely depends on the type of nuke it was. If we're talking something Hiroshima-like, you'd probably have a pretty good chance of survival and probably significant threats of nuclear radiation. I'm not an expert on these things, I'm just going from what I remember from a section in the Imperial War Museum (they have a section and a map of London about it)

Nifty map thing: Image:Abombdamage1945.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia page: Effects of nuclear explosions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anyway, I'd say, "Oh, $#17!!!" and run for cover. Then I'd probably flee as fast as possible.

CaptainCourtesy · 09-26-07, 01:21 AM

This is one of the strangest, yet most original threads I've seen.