Nuclear War, What's To Fear?

[Solitary]

  http://youtu.be/COidpPma6Bc 

If any of you have put hydrogen peroxide on a cut you know what is does when mixed with blood. Radiation poisoning turns the water in your blood to hydrogen peroxide. Solitary

[Mandingo]

Yeah!
And if nukeler war doesn't end it all, a global epidemic will! Or a couple big ass meteorite impacts of course!
So dance! Dance on the edge of the volcano!

In the words of the immortal bard:
"If there's hell below
we're all gonna go!"

Or was that Holland-Dozier-Holland again?

[stromboli]

Meh. I spent 4 years aboard an FBM submarine during the cold war. I was at the "sharp point of the nuclear spear" for 6 patrols. didn't lose any sleep then and I'm not losing it now.

[Mandingo]

Meh. I spent 4 years aboard an FBM submarine during the cold war. I was at the "sharp point of the nuclear spear" for 6 patrols. didn't lose any sleep then and I'm not losing it now.

That was like a comfy Holiday Inn while I was observing the iron curtain at 500 meters distance from a dug-in tank position with live ammo in the breach during one of the hotter episodes of the cold war.

[stromboli]

That was like a comfy Holiday Inn while I was observing the iron curtain at 500 meters distance from a dug-in tank position with live ammo in the breach during one of the hotter episodes of the cold war.

Okay, so my freezing my ass off in North Atlantic winter temps doesn't hold a candle? Oh you are right. it doesn't. Did I mention you can eat so much lobster you can actually get sick of it? Pizza every third night? BOring! 
Did I mention the foreign, unedited movies with all the scenes cut out for US consumption still in there?
A living hell my friend. A living hell.

[The Skeletal Atheist]

I worry about us ending humanity over stupid shit like this, but life? Hell no. We'll destroy ourselves on this planet and many other creatures due to our own stupidity, that I'm sure of.  Well we destroy life? No fucking way.

If we wipe it all but bacteria with our antics there is still another 5 or so billion years before the sun goes out. Intelligent life may evolve again, and hopefully it works be smarter than us. I will be dead either way, so while it is fun to speculate it is useless to care about the human legacy after humanity is gone.

[stromboli]

Worrying about nuclear war is like worrying about the next Ice Age. If it ever gets here, conditions politically and socially will be so seriously fucked that it will seem like an aftermath. My simple life philosophy is don't worry about shit you have no control over, prepare when you can, and live life to the best of your ability. I don't worry about the weather, but i know what it is before I take my dog for a walk.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Time to start reading the "Out of the Ashes" series again. I forget how to be the superhero and save all of humanity after 99.9999% is dead. How's that go again?

[Jason78]

When the Wind Blows is a good story about that too.

[Mandingo]

I can.
Kryptonite doesn't affect me.

[aileron]

The dawn of the nuclear age has saved countless millions of lives.  Waging war for fun and profit no longer makes sense in a nuclear armed world. 

[GalacticBusDriver]

That was like a comfy Holiday Inn while I was observing the iron curtain at 500 meters distance from a dug-in tank position with live ammo in the breach during one of the hotter episodes of the cold war.

What part of Europe? My brother was in Germany for a lot of that shit as a TC and loved quoting life expectancy numbers to my mom to see her reaction.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

All you need to know to survive nuclear war is that you need a 1950s style grade school desk. Get under it and you can be the new savior...or something like that.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

If I remember correctly from sixth grade, that is only after you kiss your ass goodbye.  Solitary

I just knew that my teacher forgot something diring those drills.
Can you imagine telling kids they could stand a chance of survival in a nuclear attack by getting under a desk? That sounds like the Texas school board curriculum.

[Mandingo]

I just knew that my teacher forgot something diring those drills.
Can you imagine telling kids they could stand a chance of survival in a nuclear attack by getting under a desk? That sounds like the Texas school board curriculum.

Perfectly fitting for a country that's still got more than 20.000 live nukeler warheads on a hair's trigger, deployed across the globe.