GenX enters the discussion...

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@Lightfighter "I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light... and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than the millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival." — Dr. Stephen Falken, "WarGames" (1983)

[codinghorror@infosec.exchange]

@Lightfighter On my mark, turn your key.. sir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWH2zjPlqLo

[maya_b@hachyderm.io]

@Lightfighter

just remember if you're far enough away to see the mushroom cloud, you weren't close enough to the mushroom cloud

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@Lightfighter when I lived 2mi from the Pentagon, people asked if I was worried.

Nope, a little flash and problem solved.

[leslieburns@esq.social]

@Lightfighter GenXer here: I'm within spitting distance of Naval Base San Diego. I like a good tan.

[erikvanstraten@todon.nl]

@Lightfighter : image from https://www.kewlquiz.com/quiz/are-you-keen-on-mr-bean-take-the-ultimate-mr-bean-quiz-2/

[janeimber@mstdn.social]

@Lightfighter Seriously, I love all the post-apocalypse
movies, but I have no desire to be the last man standing in a kill or be killed world.

[happycrow13@mastodon.social]

@Lightfighter I live in the middle of major banking services and electrical and gas supplies. Couple army bases, too within an hour's drive.
I don't know if I'm fucked cuz I'm near good targets or fucked cuz I'm not near enough. Either way I'm ready. Got my comfy chair and pretty pipe.

[robo105@mastodon.social]

@Lightfighter Love the humour

[lightfighter@infosec.exchange]

@petrillic I was living in Triangle, VA for 9/11, right at the front gate to Quantico. So many targets around there.

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@Lightfighter exactly. Nothing to worry about. You'll be charcoal before a nerve impulse gets anywhere.

[superflippy@mastodon.xyz]

@Lightfighter I think the safety procedure for a radioactive event is to go stand in the parking lot in alphabetical order.

[lightfighter@infosec.exchange]

@superflippy If you are still mobile after surviving the blast by taking cover under a desk that consists of pot metal and a piece of plywood, yes.

[christopherbrown@mastodon.social]

@Lightfighter

[chuff@bark.wolp.chat]

That's kinda my prep here, who's one of the top five employers in my town and less than 2 miles from my house? Boeing. What's the odds that Hazelwood Missouri, a town that likely no one outside of the area has heard of, is a target?

[atomicbird@mastodon.social]

@Lightfighter Back in the day the lawn chair plan was exactly what scout leaders recommended if you ever heard that missiles were on their way.

[victorvonvortex@mastodon.social]

@Lightfighter

Sometimes when we were out at the beach many years ago we would see a nuclear submarine heading out to sea and we would look up and wave to the Soviet satellites.

[sordidamok@mastodon.social]

@Lightfighter I'm going to get naked and stand on the roof.

[lightfighter@infosec.exchange]

@atomicbird Beats the Army training I got back in the 80's... If you see a flash, go prone with your ass to the blast. About as useful as the desk in school.

[bruce@darkmoon.social]

@Lightfighter

This is the real reason I became a truck driver. If apocalypse comes for me, I'm stealing a diesel tanker trailer and Mad Maxing this shit.