Good news, everybody. I would survive a nuke!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Good news, everybody. I would survive a nuke!

Henglegert Rinkerdink · Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

I would too, although apparantly not for long.

I'm taking this to mean at some point I'd stop being "me" and become "Captain Manhattan" ... I'm constantly walking around naked "zapping" people anyway, so it's a logical step forward.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

I'd last about 24 hrs - unless I happened to be visiting my Dad's house - in which case it would be happy days!

Aodan · Teiam Member

You're alive! ... but not for long.

The heat from the blast has caused head to toe second degree burns.You'll probably die within the coming weeks from radiation sickness.

The dinosaur meteor would kill me outright, the next two down would have me alive, but not for long. The bottom three I'd be alive, but would I want to be?

Truckman · Old. But wise!

All I get is a Google map...What's supposed to happen?... yawn ...Ben

Aodan · Teiam Member

Ben, did a box pop up on the right side asking about the largest populated city and an area to put your location? Fill that box in and it'll let you know if you'll live ;)

Truckman · Old. But wise!

Thanks, Jackie...

Alive! but do you want to be?

You live in the middle of no where or are lucky. The planet isnt looking good though. Get ready for some great skiing in the incoming nuclear winter!

Being familiar with nuclear warfare, I don't think they know what they're talking about...I chose their 50 MT option which has only happened once as a test...For those unfamiliar with the terminology, this means the initial blast has the explosive power of 50 million tons of TNT set off in the same instant...This initiates a firestorm which ignites everything combustble in the blast area...

The resulting flames generate enough heat to incinerate bricks, rock and steel buildings...All this happens in the first second after detonation...The pressure wave caused by this acting against the ground generates enough superheated wind to push whatever debris is not burned outward at hypersonic speeds...At the same time this fireball has caused all the available oxygen to be consumed and air from outside the blast area is rushing inward to feed the flames, causing an enormous inbound windstorm which will blow over anything in its path...

At one time I had data showing the radius of effectiveness of unleashed nuclear energy measured by blast yield...But it's been lost for decades...Based on my memories of my training and experience, I believe their results are inaccurate......Ben

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

The heat from the blast has caused head to toe second degree burns.You'll probably die within the coming weeks from radiation sickness.

Based on the likelihood of anyone being arsed nuking Blackpool, (which for some reason is where they chose to measure from) I too believe their results are inaccurate, though Ben's reasoning is more interesting. Their population data is well out too.

Truckman · Old. But wise!

Here is a pretty accurate account of the only known use of a 50 MT device which occured before most of you were born...Note that the yield was reduced from the original 100 MT size......Ben

Truckman · Old. But wise!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

My state of the art web browser (IE6) at work can't cope with that! I shall have to revisit it at home.

Obviously though, the frivolous nuke website that I found is far more accurate than anything Ben might know due to his experience, facts and real life.

Aodan · Teiam Member

How screwed I am seems to vary little since I live so close to a target but if something is going to drop, I would prefer the dinosaur killing meteor.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

Apparently all life on earth has been wiped out on 20 separate occasions - how awesome is that! Here's hoping I'm next! YAY!

Truckman · Old. But wise!

JonnyStead wrote:
Apparently all life on earth has been wiped out on 20 separate occasions

That theory has been visited in "Doomsday: The Science of Catastrophe," an interesting book......Ben

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

JonnyStead wrote:
Apparently all life on earth has been wiped out on 20 separate occasions - how awesome is that! Here's hoping I'm next! YAY!

Ermm, that would rather depend how you define a few little things like 'life', 'all' and proof, oh, and, for that matter, 'occasion'.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

If I remember correctly its defined as 'global killer' strikes - so probably not all life down to bacteria, but basically enough life gone to warrant a step change in evolutionary progress (i.e. Dinasours go, mammals become dominant - that sort of thing)....

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

AKA mass extinctions: large numbers of species becoming extinct over just a few millennia.

http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/palaeofiles/triassic/noext.htm has a good, if slightly patronising write up.

BTW there is evidence of significant climate change contemporaneous with the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, so you may be in luck..

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

I do love the "1 millions years is a second of our day" comparison. Really brings it home about how insignificant we are as individuals and indeed a species.

Just enjoy it while you're here!