Nukes away
December 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm by David FarrarNow this is fun. Pick a destination, and a type of nuke, and see on Google Maps the impact. The four zones pictured are:
- Black – Conflagaration – all dead
- Purple – 3rd degree burns
- Pink – 2nd degree burns
- Orange – 1st degree burns
I’ve been nuking Palmerston North all afternoon. If you pick a big enough bomb, you can also get Shannon, Levin and Fielding as a bonus!
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December 29th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
You need something somewhere between a 50mt ‘Tsar’ and an Asteroid to fix places like Iran and Iraq
Vote:December 29th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
only a sick fuck or a child that doesn’t know the real implications would enjoy this
Vote:December 29th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
if you use Little Boy on the Beehive, you can kill everyone in Thorndon, including (if you pick the right day) all the MPs and staff, plus maim and disfigure all the plutey policy wonks in Kelburn, Khandallah and Wadestown and Oriental Bay, vapourise Lambton Quay and the capitalist bastards at NZX, but leave unscathed all the real people in Newtown, Karori, and Johnsonville. Nice. Where can I buy one of these things?
Vote:December 29th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Nice thought Harpoon but you’re forgetting Nuclear Weapons are illegal in New Zealand. Could always pass retrospective validating legislation though…but now I’m forgetting, all the scumbag pollies would have been vaporised. Silly me.
Vote:December 29th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
The calc’s must be assuming an air-burst as they don’t seem to account for the surrounding terrain.
Which is a shame as a terrorist-detonated nuke is probably more likely to be at ground level.
Vote:December 29th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
jastowns… you mean a nuke might affect the DNA of people in Palmy? And how could that be a bad thing?
Vote:December 29th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Well there goes Christchurch. Added bonus that the country’s murder and nazi wannabe rate has been halved.
Vote:December 29th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Noooooooooooooooo! Not Palmy!!!
Vote:David, I didn’t get the nice warning pamphlet that the IDF is meant to drop!
Then again, there are a lot of Labour supporters here, so I don’t blame you.
December 30th, 2008 at 7:54 am
# jastowns (80) Vote: Add rating 6 Subtract rating 16 Says:
December 29th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
only a sick fuck or a child that doesn’t know the real implications would enjoy this
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You need to learn to love the bomb..it can provide endless seconds of entertainment as you ride it down! (safety harness are provided to prevent those unnecessary falls. If you think your Nuke is not OSH compliant, don’t ride!).
Did you know that people make their living from playing ‘games’ like this? they use huge amounts of statistics on building materials, geographic and geological data to provide leaders with very precise details of the effects of these weapons. Did you know that using a number of smaller weapons is actually more efficient than using one large bomb? Its all to do with the blast effects over a wider area. These guys tend to be called targeteers, flowers wilt and die in their presence, dogs whimper, cats hiss and spit.
Vote:December 30th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Very funny. Probably a lot more accurate than the hysteria we were all told that 1 nuke would be able to wipe out NZ back in the 80′s.
If you nuke Auckland not many of them even get the North Shore and very few would reach me in Henderson.
Vote:December 30th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Stuart MacKey – loved the “flowers wilt and die in their presence, dogs whimper, cats hiss and spit” line. Very dry.
Also agree with your blog that NZ needs to step up the regional play in the Sth Pacific otherwise one day we’ll wake up full members of a few UN councils only to find Fiji et al are protectorates of the PRC.
Vote:December 30th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Madeleine (91) Vote: Add rating 0 Subtract rating 0 Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Very funny. Probably a lot more accurate than the hysteria we were all told that 1 nuke would be able to wipe out NZ back in the 80’s.”
In all honesty I doubt that NZ would ever have been nuked, there has never been anything valuable enough here to be worth it. As we have never had the ICBM’s/SSBN’s (ballistic missile submarines) that would invite such an attack, and dont have a conventional capacity to attack any major power on our own initiative, or major developed resources to invite serious attack, I doubt it would happen.
Vote:December 30th, 2008 at 8:32 am
# expat (1762) Vote: Add rating 0 Subtract rating 0 Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Stuart MacKey – loved the “flowers wilt and die in their presence, dogs whimper, cats hiss and spit” line. Very dry.”
Thank you, one does try.
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Also agree with your blog that NZ needs to step up the regional play in the Sth Pacific otherwise one day we’ll wake up full members of a few UN councils only to find Fiji et al are protectorates of the PRC.
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I must get back onto that blog… But yeah, in short, I think that China is the next big conventional threat; they have already said that they intend to build big deck fleet carriers( they are currently sorting out their training carrier, the old incomplete Russian Varyag), and those things have but one purpose, to project power and they don’t need them to attack Taiwan. Moreover, in the long term they have the economic means to do it.
Vote:December 30th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Yep, first international projection of force- to Africa re: Pirates. That won’t have gone un-noticed.
Vote:December 30th, 2008 at 8:47 am
I too nuked Wellington (centred on the “Beehive”).
Got a message “No intelligent life forms destroyed”.
Vote:December 30th, 2008 at 8:50 am
We couldn’t get nuked in New Zealand. That would be banned under our anti-nuclear legislation.
Vote:December 30th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I know where you live Farrar!And I don’t need nukes.
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