So, time for something completely different, watching a show called "The 100" and it's got a kind of TNE vibe going on. Yes some of the writing is ... Questionable but I'm very much enjoying where the show's going and how it's getting there.
The premise is simple, there was a nuclear apocalypse on the earth, some people were in space stations and survived. The space station came together to make 1 big station but 97 years later the stations are dying. So they send 100 prisoners to the ground to see if it's safe.
>The premise is simple, there was a nuclear apocalypse on the earth, some people were in space stations and survived. The >space station came
together to make 1 big station but 97 years later the stations are
dying. So they send 100 prisoners to >the ground to see if it's safe.
There will nuclear hotspots of course. Where and how many depends upon how many nukes were thrown around and what their targets were (strictly military, major cities and communications/financial/resource hubs, all the above...). Global weather patterns may still be altered because of nuclear winter. Results could be anything from Twilight: 2000 to Fallout-esque.
> On May 15, 2014, at 3:19 PM, "DEREK STANLEY [Traveller_TNE]" <> wrote:
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> Thus far they haven't said anything about lingering radiation, I imagine it's out there. They've mentioned Mount Weather so I assume they landed somewhere West of Washington DC in the mountains. DC would be a no go zone that's for sure and Chernobyl's taught us a thing or two about how radiation pools in areas after a disaster. I'd imagine after 100 years avoiding swampy lowland areas would be a big part of the order of the day. I'm uncertain of what the half life is for nuclear weapons fissile material.
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> It's been more of a Lord of the Flies retelling thus far, although they did have to contend with a big old cloud of acid fog... Not sure how that forms.
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> I loved Fallout great series of games... How many people set off the bomb in Nuketon in Fallout III? How many saved the game and then set it off just to behold the fury of an atomic weapon?
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> Derek Stanley
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>> On May 15, 2014, at 2:58 PM, "Harold Hale [Traveller_TNE]" <> wrote:
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>> >The premise is simple, there was a nuclear apocalypse on the earth, some people were in space stations and survived. The >space station came together to make 1 big station but 97 years later the stations are dying. So they send 100 prisoners to >the ground to see if it's safe.
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>> There will nuclear hotspots of course. Where and how many depends upon how many nukes were thrown around and what their targets were (strictly military, major cities and communications/financial/resource hubs, all the above...). Global weather patterns may still be altered because of nuclear winter. Results could be anything from Twilight: 2000 to Fallout-esque.
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>> Have fun. ;-)
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So. skimming the article because I'm headed out the door in 2 minutes, by
the time 100 years roll around only the really long lived stuff will be
around in sizable concentrations. Yes if you wander through ground 0 you
might be able to act as your own night light but the worst of the global
radiation levels would have long since passed and you'd be left with
hotspots that you'd really want to stay the hell away from.
DS
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