re: Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Modern tactical nukes don't have radioactive fallout (if they're H2)

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which is what a 2022 nuclear exchange would be -

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Complete speculation by scientists. Military minds will be pushing the buttons.

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which are typically reserved for hard targets.

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The amount of 'hard targets' which our foes have targeted is fairly significant in size. There will be plenty of radiation around for the air bursts to help spread far and wide.

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TEEEEECHNICALLYYYY he's not entirely wrong here.

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Talking a singular air burst may be technically correct in theory... War with nukes will be a lot more messy than on paper.

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Nukemap - simulate nuclear explosions

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I saw this a few years back and had forgotten about it. Pretty cool tool.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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I didn't know who he was by name so I looked him up. He was The Big Bang Theory several times. Sheldon didn't like him because he served on a committee that took Pluto's "planet" status away.

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but he was trying to say

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Since when do you care about that?

I recall a poster making an off handed remark about how you don't see women trying to compete against men, to which you posted one event where a woman was allowed to dope against 110lb high school boys then peacocked around for a bit.

You didn't care about the point they were "trying to make" you held their feet to the fire and addresses their claim to the word.

When you realize the reason why you're treating NDT different you'll realize why the majority of this board doesn't like you.

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Probably because it happens 0% in the media.

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Understood, but accusing others for something most people do here doesn't seem to be all that productive.