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i agree with the point
but this comparison is moronic
moronic pic.
Reactor detonation ≠ nuke
meanwhile hiroshima and nagasaki were immediately rebuilt and are full of people living in them
the fact is nukes arent real
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were air-burst detonations, most of the fallout got dispersed on the wind. Detonating bombs lower to the ground, which apparently happened in Fallout given the craters, would cause far more ecological damage due to fallout sinking into the soil and water.
they also received a frick ton of money and aid from america to help rebuild after
Detonating bombs at surface level would actually greatly limit the scope of the blast wave as the ground would absorb a ton. A half mile radius around ground zero would eat a lot of fallout but the rest of the area would be better off. 200 years would also be enough for the radiation levels to drop
That is offset by the sheer number of bombs dropped in the great war, which was cataclysmic enough to change the landscape.
The number really doesn't matter if you keep blowing it up in the most inefficient manner. Ground detonations minimizes the damage but maximizes the fallout. 100 Castle Bravos that hit the ground directly would still do less actual damage than 1 Castle Bravo detonated in the air. It would be way more polluted, but the actual damage drops off a fricking cliff the second it hits the ground.
All the damage of a nuke comes from the thermal radiation wave and blast wave.
Chernobyl had actual fallout. It actually did contaminate those regions with the kind of shit that would get kicked up into the air by a ground detonation.
That's why the game is called Fallout and there's so many relatively intact structures and a lot of radiated areas. It all tracks.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki nukes were 1/1000th the power of current nuclear weapons
More to the point, they were also not designed to maximize fallout. It's perfectly in line with the Fallout universe's Strangelove-esque approach to nukes for the majority of them to be ones designed to spread as much radiation as possible. Cobalt bombs or even Project Pluto derived devices that'd spread a massive amount of radioactive material with half-lives measured in decades (which is the worst long-term. Isotopes with a half-life measured in thousands of years are dangerous in massive amounts, but relatively benign in small ones. Half-lives measured in hours or days are highly dangerous but short-lived. This middle ground ensures maximum long-term harm is dealt in the form of hugely increased cancer rates and distinctly shortened lifespans due to this)
>Chernobyl after the nuke
Shit comparison, tbh. A better comparison would be Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
He said AND Nagasaki, try again
Chinese nukes are extra deadly
Fallout 3's overworld is ugly and the dungeons aren't any better
Because Chernobyl wasn't nuked, moron.
>one nuclear reactor meltdown versus hundreds of super nukes all concentrated in a single area
does the FEV mess with plants? half the weird shit in fallout is FEV frickery
The east cost was infected by their version of FEV that prevented plants from growing and also made the inhabitants moronic which is why they never bothered to clean up any of the skeletons 200 years later.
Black person feces
You ever realize how easy it is to manipulate people?
it was a leak, not a bomb you moron
madmax brainwashed people into thinking nukes would completely destroy nature
okay the point is though that things would get really bad okay??
>One (1) nuclear detonation
vs
>The entirety of the nuclear arsenals of the super powers of planet Earth dispersed all around the world
For the record, if we are going by the amount of nuclear weapons in existence today, that would be THOUSANDS of nuclear detonations all across the breadth of America, Russia and China, with some probably aimed at other places around the world.
Nah. Yeah these countries have thousands of warheads but the number mated to deliver systems ready for operational employment is in the hundreds
Even if we assume that the countries would not be more readily able to fire nuclear weapons in the Fallout universe to achieve those thousands, hundreds of detonations is still absolutely ridiculous and would make the soil unable to support most plant life for way more than 200 years.
Hundreds spread across the entire planet. Dozens concentrated in major industrial areas/military bases so the number of actual discrete locations being nuked is lower
Vast swathes of the planet would be untouched, even accounting for fallout which would be directional and not spread everywhere
Yes, swathes with lower population densities. Population centers would bear the brunt of the detonations and therefore they and the areas surrounding them would be fricked for a long time.
There are, haven't you been to Oasis?
>Pittsburg
>Utterly destroyed by the bombs.
>Zero functional industry
>Zero research and development capacity.
>Produces the first post-war power armour design and has more understanding of power armour than the BoS do 200 years later.
the shittiest bait i've seen in a long time,and the only board i frequent is this shithole.
So fascinating how many nuclear physicists browse Ganker in their off time.
when you are enveloped in toxicity 24/7 you become something of a scientist
No you don’t, you are in the painfully moronic with no self awareness section of the dunning Krueger curve
>game runs at 20 fps the moment there's anything but an empty wasteland on screen
>"hey let's make in into a fricking jungle"
I look forward to upscaling 480p15 into 1080p30 when they add proper vegetation to Creation Engine
Starfield has some pretty dense forests on some planets, but trying to have that AND a ruined dense city is asking for trouble
Or, and just hear me out here, they could optimize their ramshackle engine and do both like competent developers. It doesn’t need to be horizon tier of graphical fidelity but horizon shows you damn well can have insanely detailed foliage and ruins to explore
>never rains
>all surface and ground water irradiated
>city ruins are a barren wasteland where nothing can grow and the water is irradiated
>yes this is where I want to settle down, no I don't want to go anywhere less shitty
Just like real life
Nah, the real world isn’t like your pol fairy tales
Because its fantasy radiation with nothing in common with real life. We don’t have immortal ghouls either.
Because in Fallout, the earth was hit with hundreds of nuclear warheads .
>dude I'm gonna build a whole town around a nuke lol
So quirky!! Epic, Todd!