• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    That’s potentially not great for survival outside of a nuclear blast.

    To be fair, it might do an okay job protecting them from one part of a nuke if it was a moderate distance away, like the middle of LA wouldn’t be.
    A couple miles out the shockwave will be basically horizontal, so it being buried would potentially help you skip that part. That just leaves “firestorm making it an oven”, “ground vibration making the roof fall on you”, “suffocating due to no air circulation”, “fallout falling through the ceiling hole making you sick”, “dying of dehydration before enough fallout clears to leave”, and “sitting in a dark room with a bucket of your own feces for the rest of your life because your ladder broke”.

    A desk might actually have been a better plan.

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      5 months ago

      Maybe, but the couple of times I opened that lid of a door, I sure as hell didn’t want to go down into that spider-infested hole. I’ll take my chances with a hydrogen bomb. Ick.

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        5 months ago

        Oh, I didn’t even think of the spiders, or how it’s probably damp and covered in mold. I only thought about the suffocation hazard.