The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXXI

[Mouthwash]

Is there any website that lets you learn math like Khan Academy does, but also has a goddarned placement test?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Hey, why is it that tests of nuclear bombs don't unleash all this genetic-mutation radiation that's one of the bad side effects attributed to bombs themselves?

 

[Takhisis]

They don't? If you detonate an actual nuclear device then you do. So far the North Koreans have detonated one (stationary) bomb IIRC and launched several missiles without warheads.

 

[Hygro]

How does that work, consumption-wise? Do the layers eventually blend, or do you just work your way through the strata like a paleontologist?

It's milked so that you drink along the stem and its rad.

 

[Ajidica]

Hey, why is it that tests of nuclear bombs don't unleash all this genetic-mutation radiation that's one of the bad side effects attributed to bombs themselves?

The bombs that were tested in the middle of the desert tended to be pretty small, a few kilotons at most. Our larger bombs were tested either underground or when we vaporized an island in the Pacific. In some cases, the bomb hasn't been tested, but everything should work based on previous bomb tests.
Also, from what I remember a lot of the early bombs were actually "clean" bombs in that even groundbursts didn't create a lot of radioactive fallout. Due to how some thermonuclear bombs were set up, they are exceptionally "dirty" and are not things you want to do a groundburst with.

 

[Samez]

Regarding nuclear surface tests:
There is plenty of hazardous fallout from nuclear tests - it was one of the reasons why the soviets decided to build the tsar bomb only half size and in the end led to the limited test ban treaty (baning surface and underwater tests). The mutational effects if the fallout do/did appear but as most test happened in lowly populated areas it was a prize the nations decided to pay for their safety.
There is also a fallout exposure map for the US showing the effects of the Nevada tests

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Where did the video game serial thread go to? I cannot find it.

 

[Synobun]

Where did the video game serial thread go to? I cannot find it.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...there-are-no-elections-in-video-games.603770/

 

[Takhisis]

There is also a fallout exposure map for the US showing the effects of the Nevada tests

In red: radscorpion emergence areas.

 

[Commodore]

Does anyone else here have a crush on Marine Le Pen?

 

[Arakhor]

TMI, Commodore, TMI.

 

[Commodore]

TMI, Commodore, TMI.

So I'll take it you don't want to read my Le Pen/Trump/Merkel fanfic then?

 

[Arakhor]

I wouldn't want to read slashfic about real people at all.

 

[W|M]

Does anyone else here have a crush on Marine Le Pen?

ew

 

[Valka D'Ur]

So I'll take it you don't want to read my Le Pen/Trump/Merkel fanfic then?

I'm trying to decide if it would be worse than Abramsverse Star Trek fanfic.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Abramsverse Star Trek Fanfic? *shudders*

 

[shadowplay]

When the Columbian exchange occurred, why weren't the Europeans devastated by diseases they'd never been exposed to, the way the native populations were?

 

[The_J]

I guess because they all died down there and were not able to bring it back.
(knee-jerk reaction without looking up anything; the Conquistadores GOT diarrhea though)

 

[warpus]

We had a lot more diseases (and antibodies for them) on the Euroasian/African side since we have a lot more domesticated animals and that's where a lot of diseases came from.

They gave us syphilis too I think, but not much else that was dangerous I don't think.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

What is rubbery animation?