how much water does it take to survive a nuke like in the ending of the movie Predator?

[rah]

Pretty funny Darious.

[Tuberski]

The really unbelievable parts of that Indy clip, with that mushroom cloud going up like that, shouldn't the air around Indy be blowing towards the cloud?

Are they really trying to tell me that, after a nuclear blast and a refrigerator coming within inches of crushing him, that ground hog would still be there staring at Indy?

They go into holes for a reason people!



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[Darius871]

Are they really trying to tell me that, after a nuclear blast and a refrigerator coming within inches of crushing him, that ground hog would still be there staring at Indy?

They go into holes for a reason people!

Yeah, I would have picked the jetpack-operating groundhog myself...

[KrazyHorse]

Muddy water? What about is the light kinda bouncing around or do you need to be in los. In which case, you wouldn't be. I guess I was thinking mjore that there woujld be super heated air and such...but I guess there is not so much of that for small nuke at ground level?

If the air becomes heated enough to do you damage (from primary...not from following firestorm) then you are already wayyyyyyy too close. Thermal radiation will wreck your day. Muddy water might well do it. Would flash boil the first few cm. Optical depth of muddy water is, at a guess, on order of ~10 cm. A meter of that is quite sufficient protection.

[Docfeelgood]

OMG! you guys should put this much thought into a porno.

[TCO]

Arnie! Deep muddy water will save you from the bomb! If I ever see a rocket coming down, I'm swimming to the bottom OF a deep river. Sort of like how Huck and Jim have to go down and hold Mississipi mud while a steamship wheel actually turns over them. I figure, I would need to stay down as long as possible for heat to dissapate.

Helps also that the bomb was a groundburst. Puts a lot of of NRG into the ground (H and N were air bursts).