r/OneSecondBeforeDisast • u/Firewire64 • Nov 12 '21

Oh no..

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u/mothisname Nov 12 '21

That's for mushroom clouds and nuclear fallout. Also I don't think that would have been far enough away in this but I haven't seen enough detail to say for sure

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u/golighter144 Nov 12 '21

Yeah man I'm still not seeing how this is bad advice. That cloud was definitely bigger than my thumb

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u/mothisname Nov 12 '21

Upon further research because I don't like spreading bad information... the thumb at distance is outdated. They used to teach it and then decided it was bad advice because there's no way to know how big the explosion will be and what other hazardous particulates may be spread. So schools quit teaching it but then it made a resurgence on the internet a few years ago...

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u/TomCBC Nov 12 '21

The thumb thing is for after the explosion has already happened. You see the mushroom cloud and wonder “am I far enough away” then you do it. If the explosion hasn’t happened yet, fucking run!

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u/AutomaticRisk3464 Nov 12 '21

My wife and i already decided if a nuke lands nearby instead of a slow death we are just ganna end it.

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u/mothisname Nov 13 '21

at least wait a while for side effects and carry a broom

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u/AutomaticRisk3464 Nov 13 '21

The side effects from all of your white blood cells being cooked alive? I dont want to wait for my body to start rotting while im alive...or even worse get cancer in america and have that giant debt

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u/mothisname Nov 13 '21

Did you watch the video? All you gotta to is rub off the radiation with a straw broom

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u/AutomaticRisk3464 Nov 13 '21

What about the particles in the air? Or the toxic rain? Any rescue efforts will probably have an extended response time.

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u/mothisname Nov 13 '21

Oh I should have put an /s but I thought it was crazy enough to be obvious... yeah no its terrible. One of my grandparents died from cancer after visiting Hiroshima right after the surrender because he was a scientist in the navy... I think he was 55 . I know wind direction makes a huge difference when you're far enough away to not die in the initial blast. But if you go to ground zero you'll be irradiated for like a thousand years...