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ppitm t1_j8wixg7 wrote

Reply to comment by Natprk in Apparently we’re going to get some of the fallout from the Ohio train wreck. Be careful out there! by CombinationSea6976

Fallout projection maps are mostly BS based on silly assumptions that all the bombs go off on the ground.

You will be just fine up at camp until you starve to death.

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20thMaine t1_j8yayv2 wrote

Same deal with the nuclear winter hypothesis. It probably overestimated how much vaporized wood (from wildfires in forests surrounding cities) would get shot into the atmosphere

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ppitm t1_j8yeblz wrote

Although as I understand it a more conservative assumption is that a springtime war could still plausibly result in a sudden cold snap that kills many of the crops in the northern hemisphere, drastically worsening global starvation.

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