I think the purpose of a shelter like this was built more for protecting people against nuclear fallout, not against the preliminary blast. Of course, it would still be fairly worthless since there's no room for food or water or even the ability to stretch your legs, but I'm guessing it was contingent on the government finding a way to get rid of fallout rather quickly. #falloutshelter
@blash: Fallout gets rid of itself. The super-radioactive stuff that'll kill you quickly has a very short half-life. After a couple of weeks the radiation level would drop enough to be short-term survivable. At that point you'd evacuate or do a cleanup. #falloutshelter
@jepzilla: "a couple of weeks" - entirely my point. Can you see yourself living for weeks in a shelter that size with 3 other family members, no room to stretch out or store any food, let alone signal flares for evacuation? I didn't think so. #falloutshelter
@blash: It'd be cramped, but if the options were that, or die of radiation poisoning, I'd give it a shot.
Food wouldn't really concern me; in case of a nuclear war the only food you'd want to be eating would be canned (or otherwise sealed). You can pack a lot of canned food into a pretty small space. And it doesn't take a lot of food to survive when you're just sitting around. #falloutshelter
@zenfluence: Most people cant drive my car (standard transmission), but it is a 4WD so you can get away via unconventional routes that the Zombies wont have blocked yet, so sure. #falloutshelter
@zenfluence: Protip: If you are within the nuclear fallout range, drive towards the bomb site. Faster, cleaner death. And if you happen to be near the blast radius before the nuke goes off, drive towards it. Bright flash, then nothing. Hands down the best way to die. #falloutshelter
@Curves: It would be interesting to see how many Giz readers do drive stick. Personally, I have been pretty much my whole adult life (43 now). All three cars I own are manual (and turbocharged), although we also have an automatic minivan. I always swore that my kids would learn to drive stick from the beginning. My oldest does, and the middle child just got her permit, so it's time to start teaching her.
More on-topic... If you weren't alive in the 60s and 70s, you probably can't really comprehend the Cold War. You know how freaked out people get about H1N1? Imagine if a lot of people considered nuclear annihilation a real and imminent threat. #falloutshelter
@Curves: Man, where do you live? I drove a stick and loved it till I moved to Seattle, where the hills and lights on a hill made me hate sticks. But, everytime I wanted another car, they kept showing me sticks! Sounds like we need to trade places #falloutshelter
@Curves: Yep, two of my cars are from the 80s, when there were more sticks around.
I wasn't directing the Cold War comment at you, Curves. I've gathered from previous posts that we are probably of about the same generation. It was directed at the posters who don't get why anyone would consider building a shelter like that.
Remember The Day After? I heard recently on the radio that that show was a big part of what drove Reagan to want to end the Cold War. Interesting. It certainly did scare the crap out of a lot of people I knew. #falloutshelter
@CSX321: Yes, I did see the Day After (I had nightmares for weeks!) and its part of the reason I have no desire to live through "The Big One". That and a book by Stehen King (I cant recall the name) where a disease killed most of the people on the planet (more nightmares). I am just not a post apocolyptic kinda girl I guess. #falloutshelter
@psychonaut2021: Secrets of the Pineal Gland: Hmm.... instead of a cookie, perhaps you could take us sailing, so we can look at the moon? #falloutshelter
@stevenajohnson: You got it! One of the best Simpsons episode in my book.
I love the part where Homer ask Hank Scorpio for some sugar, and Hank reaches into his pockets and just hands it to Homer, then ask if he would like some cream with that. Homer's reaction just makes me giggle so much.
Well about that cookie... How about I just click that heart icon under your avatar eh eh?? #falloutshelter
@Cash907Censored: No, you wouldn't suffocate: "Ventilation: A sheet metal intake vent 3 inches in diameter is provided together with a manual airblower for more than three persons. Air is vented through the sandbag closure at the entrance."
Back when I was a pup we just hid under the table during a bomb scare, back in nineteen-dickity-three. We had to call it dickity cuz the Kaiser stole our word for twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but I gave up after dickity-six miles.
@Kaiser-Machead: But you're Kaiser. So you chased yourself? Or is this a story about when you stole the word dickity, which, if so, you have it. #falloutshelter
@spannu: They're supposed to survive nuclear fallout in there? Where do they poop and where do they get their supplies from? Crazy 60's... #falloutshelter
@Dickeydoo: I think the point was you would be dead and buried in a nice chamber that won't attract that many rodents or pollute the groundwater. #falloutshelter
I didnt really look at the pic since I was rushing over the jump to read about time travel (wtf, why hadnt I heard about this??!!).
Oh. The movie....good movie, but I was pretty excited thinking this was the REAL DEAL. #fluxcapacitorinvention
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Food wouldn't really concern me; in case of a nuclear war the only food you'd want to be eating would be canned (or otherwise sealed). You can pack a lot of canned food into a pretty small space. And it doesn't take a lot of food to survive when you're just sitting around. #falloutshelter
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More on-topic... If you weren't alive in the 60s and 70s, you probably can't really comprehend the Cold War. You know how freaked out people get about H1N1? Imagine if a lot of people considered nuclear annihilation a real and imminent threat. #falloutshelter
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(I have to order my cars built since you cant even find a stick on the lot any more.) #falloutshelter
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I wasn't directing the Cold War comment at you, Curves. I've gathered from previous posts that we are probably of about the same generation. It was directed at the posters who don't get why anyone would consider building a shelter like that.
Remember The Day After? I heard recently on the radio that that show was a big part of what drove Reagan to want to end the Cold War. Interesting. It certainly did scare the crap out of a lot of people I knew. #falloutshelter
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"Scorpio; you're going to die".
Anyone who tells me where that's from gets a cookie. Hint hint, it's from an older cartoon. #falloutshelter
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Gemini, you're gonna die twice
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Haha! #falloutshelter
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I love the part where Homer ask Hank Scorpio for some sugar, and Hank reaches into his pockets and just hands it to Homer, then ask if he would like some cream with that. Homer's reaction just makes me giggle so much.
Well about that cookie... How about I just click that heart icon under your avatar eh eh?? #falloutshelter
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See, everything's good!
Oh, wait... #falloutshelter
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Seriously though, I'm from the year 2021. #fluxcapacitorinvention
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Oh. The movie....good movie, but I was pretty excited thinking this was the REAL DEAL. #fluxcapacitorinvention
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