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We recently made a small change to our coffee routine that has turned out more
helpful than I expected. During a recent shopping trip our big box store was out
of the big bags of Starbucks French Roast coffee beans, so we got some house
blend. Not surprisingly, the coffee tasted a bit less robust at first. But I it
was a surprise that I was able to adjust so quickly, as it tastes perfectly fine
to me now. So I'm viewing this as good news, because I was used to finding
coffee other than my own less satisfying too. But now that I've made my
adjustment, this will go a lot better for me. I'm sure I'll still prefer my own
over the coffee most places make, but I expect to like coffee on the go a lot
better now.
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Nov 21, 2023, 19:17:Prez wrote on Nov 21, 2023, 12:04:
Depending on how a nuke is detonated determines wether or not the land beneath it becomes a hopelessly irradiated wasteland for millenia. If you travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki today you will find thriving, beautiful cities even though both cities were devastated by nuclear fire only 70 years ago. Just an FYI.
But, and there always is one, the yields of Fat Man and Little Boy were positively tiny compared to the yields of today. Little Boy had a 15 kiloton warhead and Fat Man had a 21 kiloton warhead. A modern Trident II Mk 5 bears 475kt and that's just one SLBM. If a modern SLBM were to have hit Nagasaki and Hiroshima, they would still have a 100 mile wide exclusion zone to this day and probably for several centuries to come.
That's not including the Minuteman III ICBM with its 10 MIRV warheads at 475kt for each MIRV warhead.
The reason the contamination in Japan was limited is because those were air bursts. Air bursts are much more destructive to property (because of the shockwave) than ground bursts, but cause less (though still significant) fallout. and thus most modern nukes (at least ours) are intended to be air bursts. A ground burst contaminates the soil and then blasts it into the air, causing massive fallout. There is some speculation that some other countries may intend use ground bursts to deny us the use of destroyed cities.
Really has nothing to do with size. Size is just a bigger boom. You could likely rebuild any city destroyed with an airburst within a decade or two.
Of course this has nothing to do with nuclear winter. Nuclear winter is the dust and debris kicked up by a massive number of nukes going off, covering a large part of the planet, and blocking the sun for months or years.
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