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I heard about this constantly growing up, and it was only until I was 17 that I decided to look it up online thinking 'oh it's only a film i'm proper hard me' –

I heard about this constantly growing up, and it was only until I was 17 that I decided to look it up online thinking 'oh it's only a film i'm proper hard me' – and it pretty much ruined me. It's harrowing, to say the least. On top of showing what would happen, the exploration of life after a widespread nuclear conflict is just as bad, and it's not just the immediate aftermath that's touched upon. The film ends with a timeskip over a decade later, with the populace reduced to pre-industrial life struggling to survive as they farm off the irradiated land, and those who've grown up in that world speak a very damaged version of English (as if it was hard for everyone to understand Yorkshire accents in the first place!). There's attempts to keep people educated from what they can remember and scavenge, but it doesn't hold a candle to what was once. It's a very mortifying film that hits you hard, and even skimming over bits of it as I type this, the shot of the mushroom cloud behind Sheffield city centre has made my gut sink – and this is from someone who was born after the Cold War, God knows how distressing it was for those who watched it during the height of it.

jacquesm 3y ago
> God knows how distressing it was for those who watched it during the height of it. For many weeks after I would look up at every plane passing over to see if it was dropping something.
- BoxOfRain 3y ago
  I happened to see one of the brightest shooting stars of my life shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year and it was headed towards the nearest city. I'd be lying if there was a big part of me that thought 'I really hope I don't see a flash in a few seconds'.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    I still catch myself looking up at planes a good 4 decades later so I'm totally sympathetic to that. All of this is terribly fragile and single individuals of questionable mental capacity having this much power is the sort of risk that humanity should have never taken.
- zh3 3y ago
  Roger Waters, Goodbye Blue Sky (1979):- "Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky Ooh Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?"
intelVISA 3y ago
As morbid as it sounds I'd hope to be instantly atomized in such a scenario. Imagine trying to deliver YoY growth and market impact using just irradiated soil and GNU/Make.
- kaashif 3y ago
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  - jacquesm 3y ago
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    - doctor_eval 3y ago
      I dunno. Seems like there would be a lot of red ocean.
- schmorptron 3y ago
  Hey now, we still have that GitHub arctic code vault.
  - actionfromafar 3y ago
    I hope it's deep enough or the photographic film it's on will become mouldy when the climate warms up again after the nuclear winter.
  - alexjplant 3y ago
    I have a GitHub Achievement/Badge/Flair/whatever they call it for supposedly having contributed to this and I haven't the faintest clue what I did.
    - masklinn 3y ago
      If you click on the icon it should tell you. Basically any contribution to a repository which got archived gets you the nod. Likewise for the Mars rover one.
ddmf 3y ago
I'm from Wakefield in West. Yorks. In 1985 there was an issue with the early warning sirens near our school - it was harrowing and took a few hours to fix. Was the first I'd heard of "newkiller bombs" and as a 9 year old couldn't comprehend. Then the year later at a new school there was the Chernobyl disaster. I can understand why there was such a reduced want in nuclear energy, 40 years later though I wonder how things would be if we'd gotten rid of coal and gas sooner?!
- dspillett 3y ago
  > Then the year later at a new school there was the Chernobyl disaster. '86 is the first year I properly remember. Challenger went boom while we were doing a big space project at school, Chernobyl went pop just as I was starting to pay some attention to world news, and Optimus Prime was offed on-screen. More than enough to sear the year into the memory of a young lad!
  - sc0ttyd 3y ago
    Then the next year we had the Herald of Free Enterprise, and the year after Piper Alpha. It was a pretty scary time to be a young kid!
    - dspillett 3y ago
      Piper Alpha made things all the more real, because we had family working out on oil rigs.
chrisweekly 3y ago
Related tangent: Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road" is unforgettable, and IMHO richly deserving of its Pulitzer.
- TheCleric 3y ago
  I read "The Road" after becoming a parent, and it broke me.
  - bazzert 3y ago
    Same, my son was 2 and we were on vacation, and it kind of ruined it for me. Couldnt bring myself to watch the movie.
vkou 3y ago
> God knows how distressing it was for those who watched it during the height of it. We aren't in that different a universe from the Cold War, unless someone's dismantled the thousands of nuclear weapons we point at eachother, and hasn't told me. The worst thing about the Cold War ending is how everyone talks like the world has changed, yet it really hasn't.
- OliveMate 3y ago
  Theres definitely stockpiles of nuclear weapons out there, but they're a fraction of what they were 40 years ago, and really up until the last few years relations between the West and Russia have been less tense - Not to say there hasn't been friction from all the effort put into influencing politics in the West or assassination attempts on Western soil that have definitely soured things. For reference, the big cultural fear when I was young was terrorism and rogue states, and then around adulthood it was ISIS and the like. These things still exist, but the cultural focus here has shifted for a while.
  - vkou 3y ago
    They are a fraction of what they used to be, because they can be delivered with far more precision, and far less ability for interception than in the Cold War bomber era. It's no longer the decade of long-distance bombers running interceptor screens and anti-aircraft fire to deliver warheads directly to where they intend to bomb. It'll just be a series of bright re-entry streaks fanning out from an ICBM releasing it's cluster of warheads on your metro area. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/the-nuclear-vault-gallery-image-21-test-of-multiple-independently-retargetable-reentry-vehicles--385128205619589291/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/the-nuclear-vault-gallery-imag...
FuckButtons 3y ago
It’s kind of impressive that the most awful thing in that film isn’t my hometown getting immolated in nuclear fire, but what happens afterwards. I was very depressed one weekend and decided to watch threads, when the wind blows and the graveyard of the fireflies back to back. How I didn’t off myself after that unbelievably bleak triple bill I’ll never know.

jacquesm 3y ago

> God knows how distressing it was for those who watched it during the height of it. For many weeks after I would look up at every plane passing over to see if it was dropping something.

BoxOfRain 3y ago
I happened to see one of the brightest shooting stars of my life shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year and it was headed towards the nearest city. I'd be lying if there was a big part of me that thought 'I really hope I don't see a flash in a few seconds'.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  I still catch myself looking up at planes a good 4 decades later so I'm totally sympathetic to that. All of this is terribly fragile and single individuals of questionable mental capacity having this much power is the sort of risk that humanity should have never taken.
zh3 3y ago
Roger Waters, Goodbye Blue Sky (1979):- "Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky Ooh Did you see the frightened ones? Did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?"

intelVISA 3y ago

As morbid as it sounds I'd hope to be instantly atomized in such a scenario. Imagine trying to deliver YoY growth and market impact using just irradiated soil and GNU/Make.

kaashif 3y ago
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- jacquesm 3y ago
  [flagged]
  - doctor_eval 3y ago
    I dunno. Seems like there would be a lot of red ocean.
schmorptron 3y ago
Hey now, we still have that GitHub arctic code vault.
- actionfromafar 3y ago
  I hope it's deep enough or the photographic film it's on will become mouldy when the climate warms up again after the nuclear winter.
- alexjplant 3y ago
  I have a GitHub Achievement/Badge/Flair/whatever they call it for supposedly having contributed to this and I haven't the faintest clue what I did.
  - masklinn 3y ago
    If you click on the icon it should tell you. Basically any contribution to a repository which got archived gets you the nod. Likewise for the Mars rover one.

ddmf 3y ago

I'm from Wakefield in West. Yorks. In 1985 there was an issue with the early warning sirens near our school - it was harrowing and took a few hours to fix. Was the first I'd heard of "newkiller bombs" and as a 9 year old couldn't comprehend. Then the year later at a new school there was the Chernobyl disaster. I can understand why there was such a reduced want in nuclear energy, 40 years later though I wonder how things would be if we'd gotten rid of coal and gas sooner?!

dspillett 3y ago
> Then the year later at a new school there was the Chernobyl disaster. '86 is the first year I properly remember. Challenger went boom while we were doing a big space project at school, Chernobyl went pop just as I was starting to pay some attention to world news, and Optimus Prime was offed on-screen. More than enough to sear the year into the memory of a young lad!
- sc0ttyd 3y ago
  Then the next year we had the Herald of Free Enterprise, and the year after Piper Alpha. It was a pretty scary time to be a young kid!
  - dspillett 3y ago
    Piper Alpha made things all the more real, because we had family working out on oil rigs.

chrisweekly 3y ago

Related tangent: Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road" is unforgettable, and IMHO richly deserving of its Pulitzer.

TheCleric 3y ago
I read "The Road" after becoming a parent, and it broke me.
- bazzert 3y ago
  Same, my son was 2 and we were on vacation, and it kind of ruined it for me. Couldnt bring myself to watch the movie.

vkou 3y ago

> God knows how distressing it was for those who watched it during the height of it. We aren't in that different a universe from the Cold War, unless someone's dismantled the thousands of nuclear weapons we point at eachother, and hasn't told me. The worst thing about the Cold War ending is how everyone talks like the world has changed, yet it really hasn't.

OliveMate 3y ago
Theres definitely stockpiles of nuclear weapons out there, but they're a fraction of what they were 40 years ago, and really up until the last few years relations between the West and Russia have been less tense - Not to say there hasn't been friction from all the effort put into influencing politics in the West or assassination attempts on Western soil that have definitely soured things. For reference, the big cultural fear when I was young was terrorism and rogue states, and then around adulthood it was ISIS and the like. These things still exist, but the cultural focus here has shifted for a while.
- vkou 3y ago
  They are a fraction of what they used to be, because they can be delivered with far more precision, and far less ability for interception than in the Cold War bomber era. It's no longer the decade of long-distance bombers running interceptor screens and anti-aircraft fire to deliver warheads directly to where they intend to bomb. It'll just be a series of bright re-entry streaks fanning out from an ICBM releasing it's cluster of warheads on your metro area. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/the-nuclear-vault-gallery-image-21-test-of-multiple-independently-retargetable-reentry-vehicles--385128205619589291/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/the-nuclear-vault-gallery-imag...

FuckButtons 3y ago

It’s kind of impressive that the most awful thing in that film isn’t my hometown getting immolated in nuclear fire, but what happens afterwards. I was very depressed one weekend and decided to watch threads, when the wind blows and the graveyard of the fireflies back to back. How I didn’t off myself after that unbelievably bleak triple bill I’ll never know.