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My personal strategy has been to find a body of water not in the direction of the prevailing winds and steal a sailboat to live on for at least 2 weeks as the m

My personal strategy has been to find a body of water not in the direction of the prevailing winds and steal a sailboat to live on for at least 2 weeks as the more radioactive isotopes decay.

detritus 5y ago
Mine's always been 'move to the Falklands'. Not the sort of thing one can do at the drop of a hat, mind.
- michaelmcdonald 5y ago
  Why the Falklands?
  - detritus 5y ago
    I've been fascinated with the place since my father worked there after the war, and as a Northern Brit I'm comfortable in and like rugged, remote landscapes. More to the point, most of the bad shit to happen after a significant nuclear exchange will hit the Northern hemisphere and wind currents being what they are will mostly keep the fallout up there. Well, here.
    - mhh__ 5y ago
      + Penguins (admittedly in a minefield)
      - detritus 5y ago
        My father's one piece of advice, having spent a lot of time flying out to take photos of the landscape and penguin colonies and such was - "Whatever you do, never go downwind of a penguin colony". Cute little buggers stink! I think the Falklands reached a milestone in mine clearance, wherein they believe most of them are dealt with now. Still, 'most' implies an unnerving possibility of chance. - ed: I realise, belatedly, that this circles back to the original conceit - staying out of the way of noxious winds :)
- Ekaros 5y ago
  I actually wonder would Argentina get to their territorial claims if Brits were preoccupied with other stuff...
  - detritus 5y ago
    If there was a risk of a nuclear war, I'd not be surprised if the UK sent some level of force down there as a 'back up'. Besides that idle thought- there's quite a lot of materiel down there already, so unless the UK withdrew war machines to help in the global annihilation, Argentina would still face some stiff opposition.
  - marcosdumay 5y ago
    I imagine our concept of "country" or "state" wouldn't survive a nuclear war.
q1w2 5y ago
The fact that I've had exactly the same idea makes me wonder how many sailboats might be left in the harbor when the time comes...

My personal strategy has been to find a body of water not in the direction of the prevailing winds and steal a sailboat to live on for at least 2 weeks as the more radioactive isotopes decay.

detritus 5y ago

Mine's always been 'move to the Falklands'. Not the sort of thing one can do at the drop of a hat, mind.

michaelmcdonald 5y ago
Why the Falklands?
- detritus 5y ago
  I've been fascinated with the place since my father worked there after the war, and as a Northern Brit I'm comfortable in and like rugged, remote landscapes. More to the point, most of the bad shit to happen after a significant nuclear exchange will hit the Northern hemisphere and wind currents being what they are will mostly keep the fallout up there. Well, here.
  - mhh__ 5y ago
    + Penguins (admittedly in a minefield)
    - detritus 5y ago
      My father's one piece of advice, having spent a lot of time flying out to take photos of the landscape and penguin colonies and such was - "Whatever you do, never go downwind of a penguin colony". Cute little buggers stink! I think the Falklands reached a milestone in mine clearance, wherein they believe most of them are dealt with now. Still, 'most' implies an unnerving possibility of chance. - ed: I realise, belatedly, that this circles back to the original conceit - staying out of the way of noxious winds :)
Ekaros 5y ago
I actually wonder would Argentina get to their territorial claims if Brits were preoccupied with other stuff...
- detritus 5y ago
  If there was a risk of a nuclear war, I'd not be surprised if the UK sent some level of force down there as a 'back up'. Besides that idle thought- there's quite a lot of materiel down there already, so unless the UK withdrew war machines to help in the global annihilation, Argentina would still face some stiff opposition.
- marcosdumay 5y ago
  I imagine our concept of "country" or "state" wouldn't survive a nuclear war.

q1w2 5y ago

The fact that I've had exactly the same idea makes me wonder how many sailboats might be left in the harbor when the time comes...