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[QUOTE=gman003-main;43426025]It didn't. They fired off rockets seconds before the explosion, to use the smoke trails to observe the shockwave of the blast. The spots of smoke on the right I think are (exploded) balloons carrying instruments to record other data.[/QUOTE] Well that finally makes so much more fucking sense now.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;43425675]And thus they were all hit by the wind carrying some of the radioactive fallout. Right?[/QUOTE] most of the people there died of cancer eventually I think, yeah. the people who thought it was a good idea to put them there should've been fucking shot
[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;43428108]most of the people there died of cancer eventually I think, yeah. the people who thought it was a good idea to put them there should've been fucking shot[/QUOTE] Well can't really shoot em. They didn't know it was a bad bad idea to be anywhere around an Atomic Explosion. It was the early days when we were figuring out how Nuclear Weapons effected shit.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;43428182]Well can't really shoot em. They didn't know it was a bad bad idea to be anywhere around an Atomic Explosion. It was the early days when we were figuring out how Nuclear Weapons effected shit.[/QUOTE] We used to think radiation was good for you, which is why they allowed people to be that close.
[QUOTE=Blazyd;43428294]We used to think radiation was good for you, which is why they allowed people to be that close.[/QUOTE] Radium was all the rage around the time Marie Curie discovered it. It was put into toothpaste, even, so people would buy it for the novelty of glowing toothpaste. It was put in a lot of commonly bought products, actually. Marie Curie even carried around a few lumps of it with her. She eventually died of aplastic anemia, after being exposed to radiation for so long.
[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;43428108]most of the people there died of cancer eventually I think, yeah. the people who thought it was a good idea to put them there should've been fucking shot[/QUOTE] as it's been said before, they didn't really know the effects of radiation back then. It was still a time when men were rubbing radioactive materials on their dicks thinking it would make them grow larger and be more fertile.
They recorded some data of initial and residual radiation but its not really thorough so massive uncertainty are abound. Shot Simon (volunteers situated 2000 yards away) resulted in 136 mSv with an 90% confidence limit of +82 and -53 mSv of absorbed radiation dosage. [URL="http://www.dtra.mil/documents/ntpr/relatedpub/DNATR815742F.pdf"]Saucy bits[/URL] According xkcd's radiation dose chart, such dosage in one year is linked to an increased risk of cancer. Posting 'cause it's relevant. [quote][IMG]http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/radiation.png[/IMG][/quote]
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/SmoDSuQ.gif[/img] the walking dead
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;43434472][img]http://i.imgur.com/SmoDSuQ.gif[/img] the walking dead[/QUOTE] I really underestimated how much of television doesn't use set props.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;43434488]I really underestimated how much of television doesn't use set props.[/QUOTE] Most people do. TV and movies now are pretty much built around green screens and CGI nowadays. It's a lot cheaper to do that than it is to build the actual props and stuff or change locations. All you need is a green sheet and a CG artist to make a backlot behind universal look like the top of the empire state building, or the steps to the Lincoln memorial. And it's also better to replace actors with CG, lest you want a Zombie drinking a water bottle, like in the walking dead [img]http://s017.radikal.ru/i430/1311/34/72704dd635eb.jpg[/img] [editline]6th January 2014[/editline] Another thing I wish would become more of a fad would be to replace or reedit tanks in movies and TV shows so they're historically accurate. Thats one thing that irks me about "Patton", is that they're using M46's and M48 Pattons on both sides [img]http://www.imcdb.org/images/099/100.jpg[/img] or in the movie "White Tiger" they dress up a (IIRC) T-34-85 to look like a Tiger on a Porche chassis [img]http://jolstatic.fr/www/captures/1223/7/56447.jpg[/img]
This isn't really a picture, well it is moving one with sounds but still. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY[/media]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43434624]Most people do. TV and movies now are pretty much built around green screens and CGI nowadays. It's a lot cheaper to do that than it is to build the actual props and stuff or change locations. All you need is a green sheet and a CG artist to make a backlot behind universal look like the top of the empire state building, or the steps to the Lincoln memorial. And it's also better to replace actors with CG, lest you want a Zombie drinking a water bottle, like in the walking dead [img]http://s017.radikal.ru/i430/1311/34/72704dd635eb.jpg[/img] [editline]6th January 2014[/editline] Another thing I wish would become more of a fad would be to replace or reedit tanks in movies and TV shows so they're historically accurate. Thats one thing that irks me about "Patton", is that they're using M46's and M48 Pattons on both sides [img]http://www.imcdb.org/images/099/100.jpg[/img] or in the movie "White Tiger" they dress up a (IIRC) T-34-85 to look like a Tiger on a Porche chassis [img]http://jolstatic.fr/www/captures/1223/7/56447.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Well at least they tried in the last picture, where in Patton they just slapped German icons on post war American tanks and called it a day. It was still a good movie though.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43434624]Most people do. TV and movies now are pretty much built around green screens and CGI nowadays. It's a lot cheaper to do that than it is to build the actual props and stuff or change locations. All you need is a green sheet and a CG artist to make a backlot behind universal look like the top of the empire state building, or the steps to the Lincoln memorial. And it's also better to replace actors with CG, lest you want a Zombie drinking a water bottle, like in the walking dead [img]http://s017.radikal.ru/i430/1311/34/72704dd635eb.jpg[/img] [editline]6th January 2014[/editline] Another thing I wish would become more of a fad would be to replace or reedit tanks in movies and TV shows so they're historically accurate. Thats one thing that irks me about "Patton", is that they're using M46's and M48 Pattons on both sides [img]http://www.imcdb.org/images/099/100.jpg[/img] or in the movie "White Tiger" they dress up a (IIRC) T-34-85 to look like a Tiger on a Porche chassis [img]http://jolstatic.fr/www/captures/1223/7/56447.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Reminds me of Band of Brothers, they dressed up a FV432 APC to look like a StuG III. Or Saving Private Ryan, where they also dressed up a T-34/85 to look like a Tiger.
[QUOTE=Combine 177;43437188]This isn't really a picture, well it is moving one with sounds but still. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY[/media][/QUOTE] Can't have a video that looks like THAT without DEFCON ost. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypWAqdueeek[/media]
the DEFCON soundtrack is some seriously haunting nightmare fuel if you know the context
[QUOTE=Joazzz;43439450]the DEFCON soundtrack is some seriously haunting nightmare fuel if you know the context[/QUOTE] context?
what word should i have used
[QUOTE=The Rifleman;43441894]context?[/QUOTE] Game where your goal is to use nuclear weaponry to kill as much people (civilians) as possible, while minimizing the deaths on your side.
[QUOTE=Joazzz;43441923]what word should i have used[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=The Rifleman;43441894]context?[/QUOTE] i think he's asking for the context of the game DEFCON is a game where you control a country (or set of countries) and have to, simply put, kill everybody else with nuclear weapons you see the game through a 1980s-style blue worldmap monitor, giving you the impression this is what an actual global thermonuclear war would look like in addition, the soundtrack becomes slower and deeper as more of your civilians die, making it all the more depressing as it goes along [video=youtube;9AzkZWKa6x4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AzkZWKa6x4[/video] its an extremely atmospheric experience
iirc there is that part with the women crying in the soundtrack. that part usually caught me.
also, coughing in one of the background tracks. such a simple and unremarkable sound in the real world, but in a nuclear holocaust game it's almost definitely radiation sickness [editline]7th January 2014[/editline] also in that video i don't know what's scarier, the constant rumbling of exploding atomic weapons or the silence that follows
I really like this track that plays in Civ V after you use an atomic bomb [video=youtube;M8WEaGSSd58]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8WEaGSSd58[/video]
[QUOTE=Gen. Crumpets;43441981]i think he's asking for the context of the game DEFCON is a game where you control a country (or set of countries) and have to, simply put, kill everybody else with nuclear weapons you see the game through a 1980s-style blue worldmap monitor, giving you the impression this is what an actual global thermonuclear war would look like in addition, the soundtrack becomes slower and deeper as more of your civilians die, making it all the more depressing as it goes along [video=youtube;9AzkZWKa6x4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AzkZWKa6x4[/video] its an extremely atmospheric experience[/QUOTE] Jesus Christ... I've heard of this game, but I'd never imagined it was that [I]horrifying[/I]. Like fuck I had chills through that whole thing. That's put my stomach in a worse knot than any horror game I've ever played or seen.
[QUOTE=Skyward;43445639]Jesus Christ... I've heard of this game, but I'd never imagined it was that [I]horrifying[/I]. Like fuck I had chills through that whole thing. That's put my stomach in a worse knot than any horror game I've ever played or seen.[/QUOTE] You should totally get it. On Christmas eve/day, they activate a mode which makes a little Santa Claus appear on your map. He then flies around the world to all the cities on the map. He tends to disappear after the first few nukes. Make of that what you will.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;43428182]Well can't really shoot em. They didn't know it was a bad bad idea to be anywhere around an Atomic Explosion. It was the early days when we were figuring out how Nuclear Weapons effected shit.[/QUOTE] Read Feynmans books about the Manahattan project. The scientists at lest knew it. The higher ups just didn't care/ didn't believe them.
[QUOTE=Gen. Crumpets;43441981]i think he's asking for the context of the game DEFCON is a game where you control a country (or set of countries) and have to, simply put, kill everybody else with nuclear weapons you see the game through a 1980s-style blue worldmap monitor, giving you the impression this is what an actual global thermonuclear war would look like in addition, the soundtrack becomes slower and deeper as more of your civilians die, making it all the more depressing as it goes along [video=youtube;9AzkZWKa6x4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AzkZWKa6x4[/video] its an extremely atmospheric experience[/QUOTE] Nothing hits Australia. They know that radiation will only make our spiders bigger.
[QUOTE=Whomobile;43447394]Nothing hits Australia. They know that radiation will only make our spiders bigger.[/QUOTE] Fallout : New Outback ? :v:
[QUOTE=Whomobile;43447394]Nothing hits Australia. They know that radiation will only make our spiders bigger.[/QUOTE] The game is moddable, and there's a mod that adds Australia to the Playing field.
[QUOTE=promo86;43447740]Fallout : New Outback ? :v:[/QUOTE] Mad Max is actually set in the Fallout universe.
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