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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #50 on: October 29, 2023, 02:59:50 PM »
Ambassadors and consulate personnel get kicked out of Russia and China. TV stations now only play marathons of The Honeymooners and Happy Days. The news outlets do not inform people of what is really going on. Politicians start leaving Washington and seem nowhere to be found. All Hollywood a-listers, out of the blue, flock to New Zealand and post pictures of their barbecue get-together in Queenstown. You know something is going to happen. You know this is probably and end-of-civilization moment. And yet, no one seems to be telling the truth.

Will you know what to do? Do you have a plan? Will you be hunkering down and taking cover or getting on a plane and leaving as soon as you hear that Lynne M. Tracy has been kicked out?


Honestly,  the fallout would make life inhabitable and a bunker would eventually run out of supplies....if you made it to a proper run.   Miserable and slow death...either by freezing to death since the Nuclear Fallout will block the sun or radiation poisoning. Fuck that

I'd just pour a glass of scotch with a Cohiba and sit outside with a radio listening to Sinatra.  Rather just burn the fuck up
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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #51 on: October 29, 2023, 03:13:08 PM »
I'm at that stage of existence, now: where I couldn't give a fuck if it did come. As long as I didn't survive and ended up with a slow radiation based death; I'd happily go. I don't remember before I was born - and I certainly won't remember when I'm gone. Back to the dust carbon atoms of the universe. We are one but we are all.

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #52 on: October 29, 2023, 04:08:28 PM »

Honestly,  the fallout would make life inhabitable uninhabitable and a bunker would eventually run out of supplies....if you made it to a proper run.   Miserable and slow death...either by freezing to death since the Nuclear Fallout will block the sun or radiation poisoning. Fuck that

I'd just pour a glass of scotch with a Cohiba and sit outside with a radio listening to Sinatra.  Rather just burn the fuck up

Get it together, Vince, dammit.

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #53 on: October 29, 2023, 10:39:45 PM »
Very naive to think that in the event of a nuclear war, there will be no internet or no power. The word is a big place. We have many energy generating devices large and small, and connected devices and chips in cars, phones, computers, servers, appliances, satellites, all over the world, below earth -  even in space. Gold will be in demand to, but gold is heavy, cannot be easily subdivided, and is very difficult to transport across boarders and new countries, easy to physically seize etc.

The most important thing in terms of preservation of life and safety, (other than in the immediate aftermath of a bombing which happens to be in lethal proximity), will be to be able to move to a safe location and have access to globally fungible assets.
Of course, there will be power. It depends on the scale of a nuclear war. A few nukes won't pose an existential threat. Let's say 1000-2000 nukes are exchanged. That will destroy infrastructure. At that point, something like Bitcoin will be a complete luxury. I don't think you understand the impact an all-out nuclear war will have. People will be scrambling to find water, food, shelter, heat, etc. Plus will have to deal with radiation. Crops will die. It will be a major clusterfuck. Nobody will want to know how much Bitcoin you have - lmao! You'd better place your computers in a Faraday Cage. Russia / USA will detonate EMP devices before nuking each other. The EMP blasts will destroy electronics over vast areas - unless they are protected. Cars won't run - unless they are older types that don't have computers in them.

So sure, Bitcoin might live on - might. But I doubt it. Who's going to keep mining after a nuclear war?! Who's gonna trade / buy? Get real!


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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #54 on: October 30, 2023, 01:10:08 AM »
Put my head between my knees and kiss my ass goodbye.
Don't forget to get under an elementary school desk first.

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #55 on: October 30, 2023, 03:35:09 AM »
Don't forget to get under an elementary school desk first.


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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #56 on: October 30, 2023, 03:54:01 AM »
I`d hop  in my rocketship and head straight for Krypton.

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #57 on: October 30, 2023, 03:57:47 AM »
Don't forget to get under an elementary school desk first.



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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #58 on: October 30, 2023, 04:00:13 AM »
THIS IS NOT A TEST

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #59 on: October 30, 2023, 04:23:34 AM »
You about to be vaporized in a nuclear attack.

Do not panic.  Remain calm.

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #61 on: October 30, 2023, 07:24:31 AM »
I remember those signs from days of yore.

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #62 on: October 30, 2023, 08:07:53 AM »
Of course, there will be power. It depends on the scale of a nuclear war. A few nukes won't pose an existential threat. Let's say 1000-2000 nukes are exchanged. That will destroy infrastructure. At that point, something like Bitcoin will be a complete luxury. I don't think you understand the impact an all-out nuclear war will have. People will be scrambling to find water, food, shelter, heat, etc. Plus will have to deal with radiation. Crops will die. It will be a major clusterfuck. Nobody will want to know how much Bitcoin you have - lmao! You'd better place your computers in a Faraday Cage. Russia / USA will detonate EMP devices before nuking each other. The EMP blasts will destroy electronics over vast areas - unless they are protected. Cars won't run - unless they are older types that don't have computers in them.

So sure, Bitcoin might live on - might. But I doubt it. Who's going to keep mining after a nuclear war?! Who's gonna trade / buy? Get real!



Don't assume that nuclear war will involve 2000 nukes. It could, but it also could be a smaller number and localized to specific countries and regions, causing absolute havoc from which we can, (and form which some people will) escape from.

If so, the ability to move (both one's person physically, and one's wealth) will be crucial. If you are somewhere where you are physically safe, you also want access to wealth. Banking system is likely to be severely disrupted. And there are only so many carrots / chickens etc we can barter with (if we even have access to them in the first place). Humans have always used mediums of exchange. Gold has its limitations (but also its uses). Bitcoin is globally accepted, globally transferrable, and infinitely divisible, and not controlled by any military regime. Whether more energy or less energy, the mining algorithm adjusts to supply and demand, meaning that there will always be a point at which some parties are incentized to mine. Bitcoin and Gold are of course not the only things you want to be holding in a time of crisis. We also might want knives, guns, long storage food, gas cookers, medical kits, matches, torches, blankets, etc. But Bitcoin, Gold, multiple passports, and cash in a range of currencies in small denominations, are right up there on the list in my "survival kit" (along with a network of good reliable true friends and communities arond the world).

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #63 on: October 30, 2023, 08:11:16 AM »
Just die like everyone else

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #64 on: October 31, 2023, 12:41:23 AM »
You about to be vaporized in a nuclear attack.

Do not panic.  Remain calm.

The deadly Covid is more frightening.

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #65 on: October 31, 2023, 04:58:53 AM »
I remember those signs from days of yore.

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I don`t,I`m way too young.

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #66 on: October 31, 2023, 05:15:24 AM »
I don`t,I`m way too young.
Really?! I am pretty sure the sun started fusing hydrogen into helium before those signs were made. Don't you remember?!!

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #67 on: October 31, 2023, 05:18:29 AM »
Train, eat, and sleep.

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #68 on: October 31, 2023, 05:19:20 AM »
Really?! I am pretty sure the sun started fusing hydrogen into helium before those signs were made. Don't you remember?!!
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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #69 on: October 31, 2023, 09:57:03 AM »
Lmao! And who's providing electricity for your DVD player?

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Re: Nukes start flying... What would you do?
« Reply #70 on: October 31, 2023, 10:17:57 AM »
more importantly what does sam sulek do?