Like this:
But replace “Hawaii” with your location.
🙃
I guess I’d seek shelter 🤷♂️
Just another Tuesday for me
Are you in Palestine?
In Ukraine
Glory to Ukraine!
Edit: and fuck Putin!
Glory to the heroes!
“thank God, it can finally be over” would be my first thought, followed by hugging and petting my dogs until it happens.
Go to basement. Got enough emergency supplies to last a while.
Nothing. Everyone is going to get the same alert and freak the fuck out, clogging all the roads, making it impossible to get to a shelter.
I have 2 choices:
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Center of my cinderblock house and hope for the best.
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Submerged in the hot tub and hope for the best.
Submerged in the neighbour’s wife/daughter/pool boy/donkey (delete as appropriate)?
Option number C. Just pretend like nothing happened, probably a false alarm like last time.
Whats the worst that can happen?
In that case, hot tub. False alarm? Still got a soak in the hot tub. :)
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I go outside with arms open wide, saying “it’s about time”.
At my current location, I’d expect it to be an error, since I’m about 1500 miles away from the nearest worthwhile target.
Remember that sailor you won that hand of poker against? The one who stalked away mad? Well he has a brother in the missile command…
Those penguins have it coming.
nooo 😭
Cool! how is the Antarctic? I live in the Arctic.
Cool 😎
19 hours of sunshine, 0-10 degrees Celsius, windy as fuck, and you better apply the strongest sunscreen you can get 3x a day or you’ll regret it.We’re experiencing a couple of hours of twilight at midday at the moment but otherwise darkness. No aurora either because it’s been mostly cloudy since the beginning of polar night. Also it’s been raining on and off, which is not a good sign.
Please send penguin pics or else you’ll be wishing for a ballistic missile
Penguin tax:
Payment accepted. Dress code observed.
My babies ❤️
awww cuty pingwy
Whaaaat. Is this even allowed!?
What are you gonna do, call the seals? (Please don’t)
I tried, but they just said “ORF, ORF, ORF!”. Seals don’t seem to understand English.
LOVE this!!! Do you have rock hoppers or macaroni penguins near you? Love those two species.
No, only Magellan Penguins.
But they’re cute as hell!
Maybe you’re more important than you give yourself credit for.
I’m that case, the only immediately available shelter that would have any effect at all is the sweet embrace of a bottle of gin.
Take comfort in the knowledge that somebody out there with launch authority is thinking of you. Immolation is the sincerest form of flattery.
I’m about 45 minutes from the Sierra Nevada mountains so I’m headed there to a place I know.
There’s nothing to do.
Go stand in the street and flip off the CIA satellite overhead. I’m ready.
- I would text my housemate my location and where I planned to shelter.
- if i was at home I would go to the lowest floor in the middle of the house away from the windows. in my current place, I think I’d be in the ground-floor bathroom, so I’d also fill any available containers with tap water while I still could
- I’d follow the news online as long as I could, switching to my radio if/when necessary
- see web pages like this for more tips: https://www.ready.gov/ especially: http://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/are-you-ready-guide.pdf
I live with my mom and my wife 40 mins from the vancouver city centre… Honestly I’d probably go sit with my wife, kiss them ‘n hope for the best.
Also sobbing, that too. Can’t forget that.
Ohai, neighbour. My mom’s about 9 realistic hours of travel away (aka 2 small BCFerries trips). Can I borrow your mom too? If you also can see the noodlebox location that used to be a starbucks, that is. I can sob like no one else; ugly-crying and everything.
My mom will absolutely volunteer to be a mom for you too 💛 We can even have a competition about who can sob the most!
Given how slow the elevator is in my building, I’d do nothing. I’d be dead before it showed up.
Do you live on the 100th floor of your building or something?
Maybe they’re not able to use stairs
Correct. I can’t use the stairs because otherwise my already flailing joke wouldn’t work at all.
Plot twist: The joke was the one needing the crutch.
My point was: “Why is the elevator so slow? Do you happened to live on the 100th floor and the elevator had to climb all the way from ground floor?”
We were in this scenario last year, when NK launched a missile towards Hokkaido, and we were on the west coast, just next to a nuclear reactor.
After getting the altert, we put on clothes, went downstairs to the sturdiest room, stuck on the TV to the NHK news, and waited. The missle plopped into the ocean off the coast, and we had tempura for lunch.
There’s really nothing you can do in these situations but stay calm and do the small, sensible things.
Modern nuclear reactors won’t meltdown if shot, just turn off so only gonna be more dangerous if they specifically target electricity infrastructure
meltdown
It’s okay to leave the space in when it’s two words.
Laughs in German
Modern nuclear reactors won’t meltdown if shot
we hope. never having tested nearby strikes, there’s no way to know how resilient to catastrophe these things are, and even when over-engineered with an eye on safety in the worst conditions, fukushima illustrates that everything can go wrong in a cascade and still render them unsafe.
honestly, coastal nuclear power stations like diablo canyon and fukushima are going to be interacting with larger and more violent storms in the future, and tsunamis etc., perhaps there are better places for them.
Not really, modern Thorium reactors simply can’t meltdown, it’s no safety, simply not possible they are the Future
it may be physically impossible but until we test them with catastrophic conditions we won’t know. that said, their long history of fail-safe fail states and the extremely reduced physical constraints (lower pressure, lower temps, lower amounts of fissile material, lower enrichment, etc.,) make me think you’re right, but it’s gonna be hard to prove because we’re having such difficulty getting the larger industry to test the shit much less deploy it in any reasonable amount of time.
Modern thorium reactors don’t exist on the power grid.
For now
If they are built and maintained correctly. And meltdown isn’t the only problem that could occur.
I don’t have much faith in a corrupt, self-regulated industry, with strong yakuza ties, to do things 100% the correct way, especially given everything we know about the industry post 2011. Knowing how much local political power the company has, I know they could literally get away with murder, as no politician or police would want to be on their bad side.
Don’t get me wrong, the missile was still the biggest threat, but I do believe the power plant isn’t necessarily safe. An engineering and/or scientific understanding of a modern power plant doesn’t mean shit if you don’t consider the political and capitalist systems the that underpin their construction and maintenance.
Could you recommend any reading about the Yakuza involvement in the industry? Super fascinating but it’s the first I’ve heard if it
Thanks
Not to make anyone nervous, but dropping a fuckass big missile on a pile of very secure and safe nuclear material will still scatter that material in a wide area, and wind will make it worse.
But no, making a modern nuclear suffer a meltdown is basically impossible
Sure, but a nuclear power plant could be a potential target. The nuclear warhead is the concern.
If someone drops a nuke I think you will have bigger problems than the lack of electricity
That’s exactly what I’m saying… If you live near a nuclear power plant, you’re a potential target. Cause the bomb doesn’t destroy the plant, it destroys the city it’s in and several towns around it.
The plant is a target because hitting the plant makes the power go out for the whole region, but your problem is the warhead. Meltdowns don’t factor in at any point.
I do the same thing for a missile alert that I do for a tornado alert…
Film it from my front porch as it gets uncomfortably close, while my wife screams in the background for me to get back in the house.
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