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Whose traveling back in time out there? Thought the portal was only in Germany
by tashoecraft 6y ago
Whose traveling back in time out there? Thought the portal was only in Germany
- Izkata 6y agoSeems to be one of those things just weird enough to get used in fiction regularly as shorthand for "something is really wrong" - it was part of the trailers for Jericho [0] and a plot point over the course of FlashForward [1]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_(2006_TV_series) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_(2006_TV_series) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashForward https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashForward
- throwanem 6y agoBirds are significantly more susceptible to acute radiation injury than humans (cf. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep16594 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep16594 - not directly on point, but the dose rate relationships can be trivially compared with those widely documented for humans, e.g. at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome#Dose_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome#Dose_...). I suspect that's where the association originates, and the use of the trope fits in especially well with Jericho's plot, which opens with a nuclear war.