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Carl Sagan, and some of his side kicks, like Bill Nye should have stuck
to astrophysics, as they are of no use on an M Class planet.
I don't worry about nuclear winter, I worry about those who are so
scared of things that they make things worse. Altfeld and Cimbala
may have been on to something.
I'll prepare for an oncoming hurricane....lay in some water, food, batteries, fuel for the gas grill, etc., but for nuclear war? I'm 70. I've had some good years behind me. Not sure I want to try to survive a nuclear winter and the aftermath.
I'm with you. Let the kids stockpile all kinds of crap and then die a slow painful death in a nuclear winter and radiation that lasts for 10 years. I'm 67 and I'm going out painlessly right from the start with a bottle of tranqs and a bottle of 120-proof alcohol. Watch the drama, "Threads" that deals with the aftermath of a nuclear winter in Britain. Very scary stuff. In English with Italian subtitles:
Threads is an extremely disturbing & horrific animated movie - I've only seen it once, and that was enough. This is probably the closest representation of what may actually happen during such an attack. Massive amounts of destruction & damage; no electricity; food & water will be contaminated (and no running water either), etc. Again, even if you don't get radiation poisoning (which you almost certainly will) then a myriad of other things will end up killing you.
Yes, there was a caveat at the end of The Day After which stated that the horrific deaths/destruction that was depicted in the film would actually be a lot worse than what was shown - if it occurred in real-life. TDA was definitely considered an anti-war film.
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Originally Posted by Pyewackette
I grew up living next to a SAC unit. We had regular "air raid" drills aimed at "protecting" us from nuclear attacks. They would blow the siren and then we were supposed to huddle underneath our desks. It didn't take too long before I quit participating - because even at 7 or 8 years old, I knew we were extremely likely to be at ground zero and huddling under my desk was certainly not the way I intended to meet my maker (as it were, given I'm a life-long atheist).
Then he went to the school board and gave them all a good talking too. That was the last anyone ever heard of "air raid drills" at school.
Trust me, all your "preparation" amounts to huddling under your desk. You can do that if you want, of course, this is a free country.
That was all before my time, but I never figured out which idiot out there thought that falling on the floor & sticking your head underneath your desk would help prevent your getting hurt in a nuclear attack (or any other type of attack, for that matter). Ludicrous.
Threads is an extremely disturbing & horrific animated movie - I've only seen it once, and that was enough. This is probably the closest representation of what may actually happen during such an attack. Massive amounts of destruction & damage; no electricity; food & water will be contaminated (and no running water either), etc. Again, even if you don't get radiation poisoning (which you almost certainly will) then a myriad of other things will end up killing you.
Yes, there was a caveat at the end of The Day After which stated that the horrific deaths/destruction that was depicted in the film would actually be a lot worse than what was shown - if it occurred in real-life. TDA was definitely considered an anti-war film.
That was all before my time, but I never figured out which idiot out there thought that falling on the floor & sticking your head underneath your desk would help prevent your getting hurt in a nuclear attack (or any other type of attack, for that matter). Ludicrous.
TESTAMENT, another nuclear war movie that is also very disturbing. I don't believe that THREADS was an animated movie. Must have been a typo.
You're right, Threads was not animated. I was confusing that with When the Wind Blows, which was an animated UK film from the 1980's about the aftermath of nuclear war - very disturbing:
Their bodies were found. Apparently, they gave up and died without a struggle, never realizing that the destruction was local and only temporary, and that rescuers would have arrived in a month...
The following YouTube is a humorous take on all of this...
From the Twilight Zone ...
Don't take it too seriously, and note that after the 24th minute,
it begins to repeat since the film is only 24 minutes ...
Get Trump out of office and you won't have so much to be concerned about. That nutcase in North Korea will settle down once he doesn't have another blockhead to go up against.
Get Trump out of office and you won't have so much to be concerned about. That nutcase in North Korea will settle down once he doesn't have another blockhead to go up against.
Trump? Yeah. Him too. We should have done it with Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Reagan. Yeah, I went there. Reagan. The last decent man with a spine in that office was Kennedy. And he got what for his patriotism? All these yahoos are always causing bad blood with one or more nations the world over, and then wanting to use the military to do a job that should never have been created in the first place. McStain with his secret trips to Syria and Ukraine, hobnobbing with head-choppers and nazis. I could go on. And on, and on...
Whatever made Americans think they needed to trade one tyrant a thousand miles away for several thousand next door, I'll never know. We should have ditched the one across the pond, and deported any who attempted to start here at home the criminal organization that is government. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, etc., thanks for the good job! Now go home and enjoy the freedom. Don't fix what ain't broke. And we could always wise up and throw the bums out ourselves, but then who would pass out the free stuff we all pay so much for? Government is always, at its core, an abusive and greedy criminal enterprise, taking its sustenance from the treasure and industry of the people that allow it to exist in their midst.
Emergency Warning To President Trump On Potential Trap In North Korea: Shoot Down EMP Satellites
IF TRUMP PLANS ON STRIKING NORTH KOREA , HE MUST TAKE OUT ANY AND ALL SATELLITES OF NORTH KOREA ( this will also blind their ability for counterintelligence ) . I am sure we have laser technology to destroy their satellites . Some years against , maybe about ten years or so ago , China were testing their own laser weapon technology and from the ground , they totally destroyed one of their own obsolete satellites , bringing it back to earth
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