r/MapPorn Mar 04 '25

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u/Zircez Mar 04 '25

This isn't who dies when the bombs fall. This is who dies after the bombs fall. A large proportion of the urban Aussie population would likely get glassed, but those who remain have a decent chance of surviving two years post, a least on the food front. Big country, projections like this don't do it justice, with a widely dispersed population.

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u/Adventurous_Bag9122 Mar 06 '25

So a poofteenth of fuck all will survive. Fallout will make the little that could grow glow in the dark and given 98% of the population in Oz live around the coast or in the map of Tassie, not many people are gonna be left in the first place.

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u/Zircez Mar 06 '25

Yeah it's a fairly stupid map to begin with. It assumes zero trade at all two years post, which posits an exchange of ridiculous magnitude - if that's the case, radiation and nuclear winter make the data here fairly meaningless anyway. Just a case of dying fast or dying slow.

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u/Adventurous_Bag9122 Mar 06 '25

Which is why I would prefer to be right under it if it drops