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?
Good fucking job, Trump is what I’d say bitterly.
If my last thoughts before I die are of Trump I’ll be extremely disappointed.
Better to see a mushroom cloud than be in a mushroom cloud.
About time.
depends what causing it, a conventional or a nuclear, either would produce quite noticeable shockwaves.
“Oh, shitsnacks!”
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
radiation poisoning zone
Mushroom cloud does not imply nuclear explosion.
Yes, it does imply it. Doesn’t guarantee it though.
If you can see the cloud, you’re outside the vaporization zone. And the only thing you’ll accomplish is walking deeper into the radioactive zone. Kind of sounds like you’re taking what appears to be 70 plus percent survival chances and turning them into 0% survival chances.
I think that was literally the idea
Wait, you guys want to survive it?
I down to see the mutants, the zombies, the hot rod racing war bands, the increasingly intelligent apes. But if it just ends up being cancer and eating rats… meh, I’ll bail.
‘Barefoot Gen’ makes it look quite ugly. And it was apparently written by a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing.
Uh the vaporization is over by the time you see the cloud.
😎
You’re right, I hadn’t considered that.
You wouldn’t know if you were in the radiation poisoning zone though.
Like you’ve almost certainly been irradiated but, enough that you’ll die a horrible death in 5 days? Or merely enough to increase your risk of cancer in 40 years?
If you go close enough to ground zero, that should speed up the process a bit.
Yes but my point is, most people are somewhere in between those extremes, and you won’t really know which end you’re nearest to.
Good question. I think it is if you are in the blast zone
Find your iodine tablets
And Prussian blue!
Huh til
Rad!
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.
damn! also ouch.
PSA: when you cut the excess off a zip tie, the remaining nub can be razor sharp.
for. real.
That’s a great one! Mine was “fuck a duck! Fuck ten ducks, actually.” My friends never let me live that one down.
Boom goes the dynamite
I was thinking about this while I was on my hike yesterday. Weird. I was picturing a mushroom cloud emerging somewhere over the puget sound and thinking about what I would do.
Kind of topical right now. This was just a mental exercise and not a prophecy.
Oh thank God.
I love that movie.
Which movie is that?
Waterworld!
Respect
I came here to post this! Nicely done.
So it goes.
“Oh, that’s a big one!”
If that was here in Finland, I would of course be scared because you need a lot of explosives to produce a mushroom cloud, and that would probably mean that:
- our military has been storing a sizable part of its munitions in one place AND
- one our eastern neighbours has apparently developed a will to rid our army of its munitions.
…which would mean that some country would be planning to attack us soon.
So, I would probably start preparing for a war. Maybe go buy a lot of food, at least?
Respect that your brain didn’t go straight to nuclear
Yeah. The thing is: For a moment you forget that. I saw one for real. Planned big ass explosion. I knew beforehand and was specifically there for it and invited by the goverment agency doing it.
But for a very short moment you forget that and your brain goes full on monkey mode.
I saw a pink cloud that should have been an even more imment sign of a worse death than a mushroom cloud…
I said “fuck”
But hit the ~1% lottery that I didn’t have all the flesh boiled off my bones by superheated steam.
Super fucking surreal and none of us really believed it till hours later.
If you see a mushroom cloud tho, you still got time to run.
Ok I want to know the whole story now
If a steam boiler blows up, all that super heated steam is exposed to whatever room the boiler is inside of.
Steam always expands, pretty much instantly. Thats how we use steam to power shit.
So if a whole boiler blows up, all that steam will fill the space, and will literally boil flesh off your bones as soon as it hits you, but you still take minutes to die from the shock and lungs scarring over. Like, they recover dead bodies and there’s a trail of soup behind them where they were trying to get safety.
It is like the horror story in an engine room, worst case scenario. Even if you managed to survive, 3rd degree burns all over your body.
When I was in the Navy ours blew while I was looking at it, maybe from 20 feet away. Luckily it was the only part of it that was compressed air and not steam that exploded. Probably way less than a 1% chance, a different part should have failed first because they were at higher pressures.
But I still saw/felt/heard the explosion, and since the insulation was pink, it made a giant pink cloud that expanded as fast as steam would have, and me and the guy next to me legit didn’t know why or how we were still alive.
Whole engine room got evacuated, like 5k people in the hanger bay thinking it was just a drill because we’d just pulled into port after deployment.
And I started a relatively controlled stampede by screaming that the boiler had really just exploded and we were all standing directly above it.
Was some pretty crazy shit, and I fully expected to die when that shit blew. The pink cloud just broke my brain and I’ll never forget it. Completely and totally unexpected.
I’d probably be telling those around me to run toward the light, while running toward the light. Close enough to see the flash means close enough to accept mortality, and fast is good in that regard.
