[Hypothetical] An ICBM from China is going to hit your home in 30 minutes

[Zylka]

I'd watch the pretty sub-orbital fireworks display as the US shoots it down, then go to Vancouver 6 or so months later and see if any of the 1.2 billion cooked Chinese had washed ashore for dinner yet!

[raghar]

And how can you be sure that ICBM has nuke? It could be some dumb terrorist that wasn't aware that china has nukes stored on different place than ICBMs.
If it would launched willingly if you aren't from NY W D.C. or LA. You are more or less safe. China haven't as much warheads as US.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Mordoch
As long as everybody else doesn't know about this, 30 minutes is plenty of time to get out of the area. I'd get into my car and get on the highway going to the South of Denver, and get moving. Especially given the speed limit is 75 miles per hour once you get significantly South of Denver on the highway, I should be able to get about 45 miles away before the nuke hits its target. Given the lack of developement substancially South of Denver, its highly unlikely that another nuke will hit in the area. Why die when you can get away safely?

You know that NORAD, The Air Force Academy, and Fort Carson are located just south of Denver don't you? I suggest heading in any other direction.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
I would shoot it down (I have an old civil war musket). Failing that, I would drive away in a mobile home and laugh at you idiots who only saved your car.

Then, once safe, I would steal someone's boat and floor it to China, Rambo-style. You know what happens next. Give me 5 minutes and it will no longer be China. It will be Wiglaf country.

Wiggy, long time no see. It's good to see you back!

[Sikander]

Originally posted by MRT144

why am i not surprised that you would have to force someone to have sex with you.

Like there's another way!





Is there?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Sikander


Like there's another way!





Is there?

paying for it always works- unless they rob you first.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Pekka
GePap, that's really stupid, you know it won't hold.

A 1950s desk, made in America? I'd trust it more than a Warsaw Pact tank.

[Sava]

You have to assume that if you know, so does everyone else, so the roads will be jammed completely, unless your town has an efective evacuation plan, which is unlikely.

That's why you go to your local HUmmer dealership, steal one, and run every mother****er over.

[Zylka]

HAHAHAHAHA nice one, Sik!

Originally posted by Tingkai
I'd be wondering what Hong Kong did to piss off Beijing.

I have a question for any nuke experts. I live on the north side of Hong Kong Island. There's an east-west range of hills on the island and the hills are about 400-metres high.

If a US ( ) nuke lands on the south side of the island, do the hills provide any protection from the initial blast?

Well son, in all reality they'd probably detonate a half a dozen or so warheads in the HK area... So one of them will likely explode 250 feet above your house

HAVE A NICE DAY!!!

[rmsharpe]

Now that I think of it, perhaps a better alternative would be to head down to the hospital and steal their helicopter, pick up the girlfriend, and fly away...probably head on to Mexico, get on a jet from there to some remote island in the Pacific...something that's populated, but not worth wasting a nuclear weapon on.

Fiji?

[Sava]

steal their helicopter

even if you're miles away, the air will be quite turbulent... thus... causing you to crash.

[Mordoch]

Originally posted by Sikander


You know that NORAD, The Air Force Academy, and Fort Carson are located just south of Denver don't you? I suggest heading in any other direction.

They are located significantly further South. I would be between the two blast locations. Incidentally, China really doesn't have that many nukes, so if they are using one on my location, they may not even target those other possibilities. (The Air Force Academy probably isn't the best target since they would be primarily taking out untrained pilots instead of experienced onces.)

[GePap]

I would think fondly of how LA no longer exists, or won't in a few minutes. That surely will warm my heart (until the nuke does).

[Zylka]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
Now that I think of it, perhaps a better alternative would be to head down to the hospital and steal their helicopter

Be sure to steal all of their OxyMorphone suppositories too. Then you won't care WHAT'S blowing up around you - opiate bliss!!!

[Solver]

Most nukes now are around 1 megaton. So, here's what a 1 megaton nuke does. Creates a fireball with the mininum radius of 450 metres, can be up to 700. Within radius of 2.7 kilometres, it's a very strong blast. Basically, it's near total fatalities for humans and largely destruction of anything there. Within 3.1 kilometres, you get 500 rem ion radiation - guarantees you're dead. Within 7.2 kilometres, destruction is very high - it's unlikely for humans there to survive, it will mostly be rubble there. Finally, 11.7 kilometres is the radius of thermal radiation, resulting in severe burns.

Now, if you can jump into a car and drive 60 km away from your house, you are absolutely safe.