Just as an aside: The 'nuclear survival guide' you've posted up is full of conspiracy theorist buzzwords: 'Elites', 'world government', 'false flag'...
Definitely something to take into consideration, and I still sit on the fence about the effects of radiation. I think it is better to sit on the side of caution and prepare for fallout radiation lasting much longer. Interesting they only illustrated two bombs likely to be used, and didn't even illustrate the possibilities of larger capacities up to H-Bombs.
I wonder if they've followed the trend of thought that seems to presume that ICBMs won't be used, or rather, that these other methods are more likely to happen first.
I need to go look up how "The Day After" has held up, science-wise. I think the Russian video game "Metro 2033" is the only post-apoc game/story I've seen in a while that still uses the concept of "nuclear winter," though that could just be normal Russian weather wherever it takes place.
When I was young I wanted a Nintendo so I worked mowing lawns and cleaning my grandparent's house to save the money. When the time came around, my parents told me they'd match me if I wanted to keep going with the saving and get myself a computer.
That first computer was a Tandy 1000HX. The HX had two big innovations over previous Tandy computers. First it had a read only C drive that worked as a boot disk. The other was that it came with a built in 3.5 drive. I have fond memories of switching in and out the disks to play Kings Quest 4. I also remember the crushing defeat of Christmas morning when I discovered I couldn't actually play KQ4 on my computer unless I upgraded the memory despite Bill Gates apocraphly saying "512K ought to be enough for anyone.".
Oh, I adored Kings Quest. I could only see it in the mall that was 20 miles from our home, and someone else was always playing it.
The first home computer we ever had under our roof was one dad borrowed from his college: A TRS-80. And it lived up to the "Trash-80" nickname, displaying "SYSTEM ERROR" more often than not.
To be fair and balanced, my high school science teacher still pounded out all of his tests on a TRS-80 and an old tractor-feed printer, and it had bas-relief of "keyboard plaque" that had been around so long it had fossilized.
I have fond memories... okay, not quite so fond... if when I would receive AOL floppies -- 3.5" -- in the mail. At first I threw them out. But then I realized that I ha the makings of AWESOME here. I was going to re-tile my bathroom with AOL floppies. Sadly, I never got enough of them.
If you still have those, I think they're collectible. I have one of the "Episode III" AOL disks they were giving away at Burger King floating around the office somewhere.
And a friend of mind had a similar idea for all of the AOL CDs he kept getting in the mail: He hoped to someday have that mirrored ceiling he'd always dreamed of.
A few years back, I did an armored sleeve for a costume out of AOL CDs. A heat gun on "low" and a few minutes, they bend nicely and keep their shimmer :) .
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Interesting they only illustrated two bombs likely to be used, and didn't even illustrate the possibilities of larger capacities up to H-Bombs.
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I need to go look up how "The Day After" has held up, science-wise. I think the Russian video game "Metro 2033" is the only post-apoc game/story I've seen in a while that still uses the concept of "nuclear winter," though that could just be normal Russian weather wherever it takes place.
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Of course, for all of my love o' "realism" in sci-fi, I have this odd hankering for post-apocalypse where fallout/radiation is "Gamma World" magical.
I guess it's because if the effects truly are ever felt, few are likely to complain about past attempts at fictionalizing the experience.
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http://corky.net/dotan/log/2005/01/the-alan-moore-chain-reaction-thingie.html
Which has both interviews as mp3
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That first computer was a Tandy 1000HX. The HX had two big innovations over previous Tandy computers. First it had a read only C drive that worked as a boot disk. The other was that it came with a built in 3.5 drive. I have fond memories of switching in and out the disks to play Kings Quest 4. I also remember the crushing defeat of Christmas morning when I discovered I couldn't actually play KQ4 on my computer unless I upgraded the memory despite Bill Gates apocraphly saying "512K ought to be enough for anyone.".
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The first home computer we ever had under our roof was one dad borrowed from his college: A TRS-80. And it lived up to the "Trash-80" nickname, displaying "SYSTEM ERROR" more often than not.
To be fair and balanced, my high school science teacher still pounded out all of his tests on a TRS-80 and an old tractor-feed printer, and it had bas-relief of "keyboard plaque" that had been around so long it had fossilized.
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And a friend of mind had a similar idea for all of the AOL CDs he kept getting in the mail: He hoped to someday have that mirrored ceiling he'd always dreamed of.
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