Why do the Bobrov brothers have accents?

[Ben Soto]

In the example of the rolling Hiroshimas, may I add that these cars are well over two hundred years old and have been rusting and going without maintenance since a great big nuclear war? There's no indication cars randomly blew up when new, it's probably because of how old and poorly maintained they are.

 

[Dr Fallout]

In the example of the rolling Hiroshimas, may I add that these cars are well over two hundred years old and have been rusting and going without maintenance since a great big nuclear war? There's no indication cars randomly blew up when new, it's probably because of how old and poorly maintained they are.

Wouldn't the nuclear isotope disappear then? However I do lack knowledge of nuclear physics so perhaps not.

 

[Ben Soto]

In the example of the rolling Hiroshimas, may I add that these cars are well over two hundred years old and have been rusting and going without maintenance since a great big nuclear war? There's no indication cars randomly blew up when new, it's probably because of how old and poorly maintained they are.

Wouldn't the nuclear isotope disappear then? However I do lack knowledge of nuclear physics so perhaps not.

Depends on what it's using. Plutonium, uranium, radium, handwavium, etc.

 

[Dr Fallout]

In the example of the rolling Hiroshimas, may I add that these cars are well over two hundred years old and have been rusting and going without maintenance since a great big nuclear war? There's no indication cars randomly blew up when new, it's probably because of how old and poorly maintained they are.

Wouldn't the nuclear isotope disappear then? However I do lack knowledge of nuclear physics so perhaps not.

Depends on what it's using. Plutonium, uranium, radium, handwavium, etc.

Ah, handwavium. Of course.

 

[Ben Soto]

In the example of the rolling Hiroshimas, may I add that these cars are well over two hundred years old and have been rusting and going without maintenance since a great big nuclear war? There's no indication cars randomly blew up when new, it's probably because of how old and poorly maintained they are.

Wouldn't the nuclear isotope disappear then? However I do lack knowledge of nuclear physics so perhaps not.

Depends on what it's using. Plutonium, uranium, radium, handwavium, etc.

Ah, handwavium. Of course.

Well, they don't exactly elaborate what was the fissionable material of choice by 2077.

 

[Hassknecht]

In the example of the rolling Hiroshimas, may I add that these cars are well over two hundred years old and have been rusting and going without maintenance since a great big nuclear war? There's no indication cars randomly blew up when new, it's probably because of how old and poorly maintained they are.

Wouldn't the nuclear isotope disappear then? However I do lack knowledge of nuclear physics so perhaps not.

Depends on what it's using. Plutonium, uranium, radium, handwavium, etc.

Ah, handwavium. Of course.

Well, they don't exactly elaborate what was the fissionable material of choice by 2077.

The general rule is that the more radioactive it is the faster it disappears. The fresh material in a nuclear fission reactor gets burnt up quite quickly, so they have to be refueled every now and then (that's not due to the natural radioactivity, though; the reactor is critical during operation, that's how it produces net energy). Nuclear bombs also have to be maintained because of that, although they'd last longer because they're subcritical when they're not exploding (with a very long half-life, too).
No matter the material, nuclear bombs have to undergo maintenance, though, as they're quite complicated devices. I'm not sure what lifetime modern (as in, the latest bombs from around 1992) bombs were designed with, but apparently most older american bombs were designed with a shelf life of about 20 years. After that their reliability goes down due to degradation of explosives and corrosion of the cores and so on.

 

[Ben Soto]

In the example of the rolling Hiroshimas, may I add that these cars are well over two hundred years old and have been rusting and going without maintenance since a great big nuclear war? There's no indication cars randomly blew up when new, it's probably because of how old and poorly maintained they are.

Wouldn't the nuclear isotope disappear then? However I do lack knowledge of nuclear physics so perhaps not.

Depends on what it's using. Plutonium, uranium, radium, handwavium, etc.

Ah, handwavium. Of course.

Well, they don't exactly elaborate what was the fissionable material of choice by 2077.

The general rule is that the more radioactive it is the faster it disappears. The fresh material in a nuclear fission reactor gets burnt up quite quickly, so they have to be refueled every now and then (that's not due to the natural radioactivity, though; the reactor is critical during operation, that's how it produces net energy). Nuclear bombs also have to be maintained because of that, although they'd last longer because they're subcritical when they're not exploding (with a very long half-life, too).
No matter the material, nuclear bombs have to undergo maintenance, though, as they're quite complicated devices. I'm not sure what lifetime modern (as in, the latest bombs from around 1992) bombs were designed with, but apparently most older american bombs were designed with a shelf life of about 20 years. After that their reliability goes down due to degradation of explosives and corrosion of the cores and so on.

True, but if memory serves, you have to be very careful around old nukes because they can go off at the drop of a hat.

 

[Hassknecht]

In the example of the rolling Hiroshimas, may I add that these cars are well over two hundred years old and have been rusting and going without maintenance since a great big nuclear war? There's no indication cars randomly blew up when new, it's probably because of how old and poorly maintained they are.

Wouldn't the nuclear isotope disappear then? However I do lack knowledge of nuclear physics so perhaps not.

Depends on what it's using. Plutonium, uranium, radium, handwavium, etc.

Ah, handwavium. Of course.

Well, they don't exactly elaborate what was the fissionable material of choice by 2077.

The general rule is that the more radioactive it is the faster it disappears. The fresh material in a nuclear fission reactor gets burnt up quite quickly, so they have to be refueled every now and then (that's not due to the natural radioactivity, though; the reactor is critical during operation, that's how it produces net energy). Nuclear bombs also have to be maintained because of that, although they'd last longer because they're subcritical when they're not exploding (with a very long half-life, too).
No matter the material, nuclear bombs have to undergo maintenance, though, as they're quite complicated devices. I'm not sure what lifetime modern (as in, the latest bombs from around 1992) bombs were designed with, but apparently most older american bombs were designed with a shelf life of about 20 years. After that their reliability goes down due to degradation of explosives and corrosion of the cores and so on.

True, but if memory serves, you have to be very careful around old nukes because they can go off at the drop of a hat.

Yes, some primary explosives can become increasingly unstable before stopping to work. Although the resulting explosion is probably not much of a nuclear explosion (with an actual nuclear chain reaction) but just a dirty bomb. In modern implosion-type nuclear bombs the timing of the primary explosives is very important to let the pit go supercritical. If that fails the pit will just be destroyed and spread around, which is unpleasant enough.

 

[Crni Vuk]

In the example of the rolling Hiroshimas, may I add that these cars are well over two hundred years old and have been rusting and going without maintenance since a great big nuclear war? There's no indication cars randomly blew up when new, it's probably because of how old and poorly maintained they are.

If they run on fusion cells this should make it even less likely for them to explode. Like Hass said, as soon as the fusion is disturbed, it simply stops. For the case there would be some kind of fission reactor, there would not be enough nuclear material to go critical for an explosion. The cooling, depending what kind of cooling it is, might lead to some issues, but it would be probably more a leakage, not an explosion. The material would get pretty hot I guess. But explosions like we see them in F3 and F4? No. Not scientifically, and not from the lore of Fallout, not if you see all the damaged cars in F1 and F2, of which some have been used in settlements even.

The only reason why it happens in F3 and F4 is because the developers love nuclear explosions and have the feeling that this would be one of the things that defines Fallout. They just want shit to blow up. That's all.

 

[Someguy37]

Seriously, Someguy everything is said here,

If the game makes the rules, FUCKING FOLLOW THEM.

Example is that Fallout 3 says the world NEEDS the purifier and that people are dying of dehydration. Yet no where in the game apart from a water beggar does it really support that.

Fallout 3 said nothing of the sort.

The purifier was only stated to be needed because the water purifier machines people had weren't able to purify large amounts of water needed to do this like farm, they wereo nly able to purify enough water to get people by day to day.

Next time you play a game, actually pay attention to what people are saying. You will be less confused about basic plot points if you do.

 

[Crni Vuk]

It apparantly worked well enough for people to build some settlements and survive for 200+ years.

The whole purifier-water plot of F3 was garbage and nonsensical. From the get-go.

 

[Someguy37]

It apparantly worked well enough for people to build some settlements and survive for 200+ years.

The whole purifier-water plot of F3 was garbage and nonsensical. From the get-go.

Which was never the problem in the first place.

I find it funny you say that when, I think it was Tim Cain, but it may have been Urquhart, said Fallout has always been about the struggle to find things like clean water, and NPCs in Vegas mention that clean water is worth its weight in gold, and sawyer said many towns in the mojave actually import their water from the NCR.

 

[Crni Vuk]

It's funny because NV isn't using a stupid plot like F3.

 

[r0b0wnz]

the crater of a 12 thousand pound ww2 era bomb, looks about the size of the Cambridge crater. if I read correctly 1 kt is 2m pounds of tnt

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