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No it's not Small nuclear war = maybe 10 nuclear warheads explode. Life on most of earth continues more or less as "normal" Large nuclear war = thousands of w
by shawabawa3 5y ago
No it's not
Small nuclear war = maybe 10 nuclear warheads explode. Life on most of earth continues more or less as "normal"
Large nuclear war = thousands of warheads, humanity is wiped out
- bryanlarsen 5y agoHumans are like rats, we can live everywhere by adapting. It'll take more than thousands of warheads to wipe us out. Civilization OTOH is quite fragile. Hundreds of warheads is likely enough to wipe that out.
- Accujack 5y ago> we can live everywhere by adapting. It'll take more than thousands of warheads to wipe us out. How do you adapt to having no food? It's entirely possible that most plant life on earth would cease to exist, with the corresponding collapse across the food chain killing most species of animals across the world. Any humans left alive would need to eat whatever plant and animal life survived and was available on land in areas that radiation wasn't lethal.. which might be nowhere.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoA single greenhouse could keep a single family alive long enough to eventually repopulate the Earth. Killing most humans is a lot easier than killing all humans.
- beeboop 5y agoA greenhouse won't work when there's no sun, no electricity, and the water falling from the sky is toxic.
- NoWizards 5y agoNot sure, our reproductive system is pretty sensible to radiation... we won't be wiped instantly but in a few generations we can get extint.
- letitbeirie 5y agoHundreds of warheads would do the trick but it wouldn't take more than a two-week power outage to bring most civilizations currently on earth to the brink of collapse.
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- emsixteen 5y agoDid you not read the article?