I asked this of a friend while hiking the other day in jest, but who knows? I joked that I probably wouldn’t have a lot of time, and given I would probably be in shock… the best I could get out might be, “Well, fuck.”
How about you?
Well fuck
Looks like a fun-g(uy)i
If there’s one thing I know from every dicey situation I’ve ever been in, including in the military, it’s that you never know what your brain will pull out of its darkest reaches when you least expect it.
Statistically most common last words are “Oh shit.”, but you never know.
nice thing i always remember in the fd: if it’s going to kill you, you’d be dead. (hazmat, fire, etc) So don’t worry and do what you’re there to do.
in the case of OP, relaxing and dying is probably all i’d do. i have people “up there” waiting for me anyway. 🤷♀️
I remember when I was in the Navy, I wasn’t paying attention once and stood up into a bundle of cables running along the overhead. Part of it sliced my scalp open and blood was pouring down my face. I stood there completely flabbergasted with my mind an utter and complete blank, and the only thing that came out of my mouth, completely unprompted, was “Shit in God’s beard!”
No idea why. I had never said it before or ever since. Brains are weird.
That’s a great one! Mine was “fuck a duck! Fuck ten ducks, actually.” My friends never let me live that one down.
damn! also ouch.
PSA: when you cut the excess off a zip tie, the remaining nub can be razor sharp.
for. real.
…are there statistics on that?
How far away? If I’m in the vaporisation zone, I would lie down and relax, if I’m in the radiation poisoning zone, I’d get as fast as I could towards the vaporisation zone :p
Find your iodine tablets
And Prussian blue!
Huh til
Good question. I think it is if you are in the blast zone
I was walking along a scenic trail in my city a few years ago. This particular spot had a spectacular eastern view, so I stopped to take in the last of what seemed to be a spectacular sunset.
It took my moronic ass about 15 seconds to remember that the sun usually sets in the west. So what was that red orange glow on the horizon?
A wildfire? No, I’d have heard about that.
Must be a… Nuke? What else would make that much light that fast. It had blown and I was seeing the burning destruction in its wake.
I spent the next minute or so basically shitting myself. Trying to figure out which way the fallout would blow. Thinking about all the emergency drinking water and food I never stocked. Thinking how horrific a death radiation sickness would be.
I was straight up having a panic attack!
Well then the most glorious blood moon I ever seen came up over the horizon. Huge and glowing orange.
I learned a bit about myself that day. Mostly that I am unlikely to thrive in any sort of apocalypse type situation. And that I’m a moron. Moon was cool though!
If they end up dropping nukes I hope one falls on my head. I don’t want to survive nuclear war.
You and me both
Stay in the light Carol-Ann! Well, walk into it anyways.
So the fun part about nuclear proliferation is it’s no longer a world ending full out exchange.
So for example if Iran had one and decided to use it, it would be like one bomb on Israel or mar-a-lago or something. Most of us would survive it and be dealing with the effects for a generation or more
Then the question would be what would us do? End it? Respond in kind? END THEM? How evil will we have to see ourselves? Or if Israel did, would we finally start asking questions instead of blind support?
Are nukes really that precise at this point? I honestly had no idea.
But I don’t trust the US or Israel to show any kind of restraint once one gets let off the chain.
Do they need to be precise?
- I imagine Iran has missiles that can hit a city in Israel, assuming it doesn’t get shot down
- since they wouldn’t have many and can expect huge response from Israel, they might try smuggling
- us is tougher to reach so more likely smuggled into whatever harbor, so yeah, how precisely can you park a container truck?
Is that from the graphic novel? David looks different than in the animated series here.
I would guess probably some kind of fan art maybe. There were very few relevant hits for cruddlesticks
Cloud? So it’s Death As A Service?
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Silence. Shadows don’t speak.
There goes the neighborhood
“That’s too much, man!”
I live relatively close to a major Air Force base so I’d probably only get so far as to say “oh shi-“ before I get vaporized like that scene in T2
I live so close to the French-German regiment I wouldn’t even get that far.
You’ll see the bright flash first, at which point you can’t waste time and need to take cover from the coming blast. Which probably includes hurling up with your eyes closed. If you somehow survive the blast you can’t waste time looking at the cloud and need to find shelter from the fallout within 15 minutes. During this time, if you spot the cloud, you’ll probably be speechless and too busy.
Good luck, have fun, don’t die.
That movie was a trip. I just saw it yesterday. Favorite line, “So somber the fuck up.”
“I hope they got him…”
Are you near DC, Moscow, or Tel Aviv?
