Hawaii False Alarm

[ray1970]

My luck I’d be working when I found out Denver was going to be hit. I suppose my best bet would be to get in our tornado shelter and hope for the best. Beyond that I wouldn’t really know what to do so I’d just have to wing it. Getting in touch with my loved ones would probably be impossible so I’d just have to hope we could all meet up back at the house when it seems safe to do so.

[Bailey Guns]

I guess I'm like the guy that sent the text to his son saying everyone cleared out of the breakfast buffet when they got the message...so he went back for seconds.

China or Russia wants to launch a few...yeah, I'd worry. NK? Not so much. As a matter of fact, I'd turn on the TV. Because I wanna see what retaliation on that "shithole" country would look like.

[Zundfolge]

The truth is, the things that our own government will do to us if we ever get a nuke slung at us by the Norks are going to be significantly worse than the nuke itself (well for everyone except those at ground zero).

It will be the suspension of our constitutional rights, civil liberties and property rights for some time to come. The ensuing martial law could trigger a collapse of the civil society and possible war (as divided as we are now, I don't expect well see a 9/11 style of coming together).

Although to be fair, watching how the Hawaiians reacted to what they believed for more than half an hour was incoming mass death gives me hope. Send that same text message out to the general Los Angeles area and I bet you have riots, looting and unrest for a week.

[Irving]

I'm a bit disturbed at how lightly everyone takes North Korea. It's never a good idea to under estimate an opponent.

[Bailey Guns]

It's not taking NK lightly. It's having a tremendous faith in our military's capability to handle the NK threat. Big difference.

[Irving]

I don't mean to point at you spefically, especially since most of us here are just internet chlubs and it doesn't matter what we think, I just hope the military and government isn't taking any chances.

[KevDen2005]

Yeah, I take nothing lightly. And to some extent, we might be overconfident in the US.

Another surprise to most people: Nuclear winter doesn't exist. (Even if all the worlds nukes were launched). It was quite literally a russian propaganda ploy to get US citizens to have a negative perception for the use of any nuke. The KGB carefully manipulated a scientist, and got bogus science published. The researcher was an unaware patsy, but they managed to make it go mainstream and embedded in every facet of American nuclear-thought even though the science backing it was completely false.

Don't believe me? Compare for instance, some of the very large volcanos that have erupted to which even the TSAR can't begin to compare insofar as energy release. The debris ejection for some of these mega-volcanos by themselves pretty much surpasses that of all the worlds nukes.

Would nuclear war be terrible? Absolutely, not dismissing that. Millions die. However, the "extinction" event wouldn't actually happen. Growing a third arm out of your back? More likely...

You know, an extra hand would be very helpful on many daily tasks

[Irving]

You know, an extra hand would be very helpful on many daily tasks

I saw that you edited your original post here. Let me just say that your comment about the possible applications of the stranger was much more funny.

[Bailey Guns]

The truth is, the things that our own government will do to us if we ever get a nuke slung at us by the Norks are going to be significantly worse than the nuke itself (well for everyone except those at ground zero).

It will be the suspension of our constitutional rights, civil liberties and property rights for some time to come. The ensuing martial law could trigger a collapse of the civil society and possible war (as divided as we are now, I don't expect well see a 9/11 style of coming together).

Although to be fair, watching how the Hawaiians reacted to what they believed for more than half an hour was incoming mass death gives me hope. Send that same text message out to the general Los Angeles area and I bet you have riots, looting and unrest for a week.

Why would martial law be instituted if NK fired a missile at the US? Especially if it wasn't a successful strike?

I guess I just disagree on the outcome you envision.

[KevDen2005]

I saw that you edited your original post here. Let me just say that your comment about the possible applications of the stranger was much more funny.

Everyone was thinking it. It might as well be said!