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Old 03-06-14, 01:36 PM   #31
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The Russians drive their arsenal around on trucks, do they not?
We sail ours around on Nuclear Subs.
Errr...



What's this then?

Or this:



And if you've missed this...you must be blind:

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Old 03-06-14, 01:52 PM   #32
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LOL Yeah, they do too. We don't haul ours around on trucks. We prefer B-52's and Stealth bombers.
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Old 03-06-14, 01:55 PM   #33
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Better start making the Anderson Shelter.
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Old 03-06-14, 01:57 PM   #34
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Don't underestimate the ability to hide a truck mounted ICBM, Russia is a big place and satellites can't monitor everything.
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Better start making the Anderson Shelter.
I wouldn't bother.



Besides, everyone knows that all you need to survive a nuclear war is a door propped up against a wall, covered in cushions.

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Russia is a big place and satellites can't monitor everything.
Those bastards!!!

No wonder I could not find Pizza Hut.
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Old 03-06-14, 02:45 PM   #37
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The Russians drive their arsenal around on trucks, do they not?
We sail ours around on Nuclear Subs.
I believe the Russians still do both.
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Old 03-06-14, 02:48 PM   #38
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Dear Cybermat47

I do understand your concern about the things that happens in Ukraine and Crimea. I would however tell you to just relax. I guess you know some people who's old enough to remember the Cuban crisis and I'm sure they will tell you, that this Ukrainian crisis isn't even near the Cuban crisis.

Should this Ukrainian crisis develop out of control, I say the same as some one else wrote, stay with your love ones.

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Old 03-06-14, 02:53 PM   #39
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Don't underestimate the ability to hide a truck mounted ICBM, Russia is a big place and satellites can't monitor everything.
Can it be hidden when prepping the bird to fly?

It doesn't really matter anyhow. If they start pushing launch buttons, nearly all of us will be dead, dead, deadski. Even people in remote areas will soon feel the effects of fallout and nuclear winter. Planet Earth will be a fried cinder for centuries to come. It would be an extinction level event. The astronauts on the ISS would survive a little while longer than the rest of us. Until their supplies of food and water ran out. Might as well step outside and push off toward the atmo.
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Can it be hidden when prepping the bird to fly?
Nope, but if you haven't found it by then, then it's too late.
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Can it be hidden when prepping the bird to fly?

It doesn't really matter anyhow. If they start pushing launch buttons, nearly all of us will be dead, dead, deadski. Even people in remote areas will soon feel the effects of fallout and nuclear winter. Planet Earth will be a fried cinder for centuries to come. It would be an extinction level event. The astronauts on the ISS would survive a little while longer than the rest of us. Until their supplies of food and water ran out. Might as well step outside and push off toward the atmo.
You know, when I read your answer, it made me remember a documentary about the life under and after a nuclear Holocaust. I do remember it was send in the end of the 80'ies, when there was so much discussion and demonstration regarding the placement of new type of atomic missile in Europe.

I do remember saying to my friend when we had seen this documentary. Should this ever happen I'm taking a trip to Copenhagen central, so I'm sure to be one of those who goes first and not the rest that dies from a long time of pain and other severe things

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Old 03-06-14, 03:10 PM   #42
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All I can say is this. If nukes do start flying don't run around in panic. Instead try and spend as much time as possible with those you love and care for.
Just wanting to reiterate my stance on the whole thing.
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What do you mean? That was a pretty good post he made.

Anyhow, thanks for helping me out, guys. It's just a bit jarring the first time you truly realise 'oh crap, somebody could start a nuclear war'.
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Old 03-06-14, 03:48 PM   #44
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What do you mean? That was a pretty good post he made.

Anyhow, thanks for helping me out, guys. It's just a bit jarring the first time you truly realise 'oh crap, somebody could start a nuclear war'.
I think he meant it in the good way. It was a good post indeed.

I know that feeling though, I must admit the first time I was fully aware of it was when Russian forces rolled through Serbia and into Kosovo to set up around Pristina airport, and my spidey sense weren't far off because World War III nearly did happen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciden...istina_airport However, as a kid in the 1980s I remained blissfully unaware, being only vaguely aware of the disaster at Chernobyl (I remember seeing news footage of people in Wales pouring milk down the drain and thinking it rather odd) and West and East Germany was a normal thing (I still have a toy around somewhere with 'Made in West Germany' on it), the only time I really noticed the Cold War was when the Berlin wall came down in '89, and whilst I had no idea what it was all about, it was clear through the news coverage and peoples expressions that it was an important thing.

Still, even if anything did kick off, which is unlikely, you're in a pretty safe area, Russia has no beef with Oz, although in the New World Order (TM) post-bomb, you'd probably become a Chinese outpost unless the US takes out China on its way down in which case you'd probably get some buckets from the Chinese, but given the size of Australia it'd probably only be the major cities that get hit, the outlying areas would escape relatively unscatched, and since you're in the Southern hemisphere you wouldn't need to worry so much about the chaos up North which would probably have a few cloudy nights from all the dust and debris kicked up. Australia and South America would probably be the leaders of any relief effort that came across the equator.

It takes a lot to kill off a planet, and an exchange would put us back about 300 years, but it wouldn't kill the human civilization off.

An asteroid on the other hand....
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