Can someone upload Alaska at midnight. Please
Bear in mind that, for images that are exposed to relatively low light intensity overall (like the Alaska and Australia/New Zealand images), the camera compensates by opening up the iris and/or using a longer exposure - so the sensitivity to mild/small light sources will be increased.Thanks. It is as I expected.....accept I am very surprised at how much light is coming from KENAI and SPLDOTNA twin cities. WOW.
Bear in mind that, for images that are exposed to relatively low light intensity overall (like the Alaska and Australia/New Zealand images), the camera compensates by opening up the iris and/or using a longer exposure - so the sensitivity to mild/small light sources will be increased.
You are assuming the only criteria for targeting will be population density - it most likely will not...............
It also shows me the probability of a military attack will be the Western coastal cities and the larger cities in the Central and Eastern United States.
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I understand your point. I had a training class years ago that listed the 6 largest cities in the USA that were (supposedly) high priority targets. New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, and Los Angeles, and I think they also included DC. Of course large and strategic military basis would be targets but many of them are not in highly populated areas. Nellis AFB is near Las Vegas but the population numbers are not that significant. Area 51/Nevada Test Site is very isolated. Both of those pose the most concern to where I live down wind. Strategic sites in Wyoming and Montana are also very isolated.You are assuming the only criteria for targeting will be population density - it most likely will not.......
The number one priority in an attack will be to destroy military capability - and a lot of that is intentionally located out in the middle of nowhere. Hitting population centers will be somewhere down the priority list from there......
If you want to identify the safest location, you need to work out what other legit targets are in each area and what the dominant wind direction from those sites will do to fallout.
Even when you do that, there is significant risk that the wind won't be blowing that way at the critical times.
That is the appeal of going somewhere a very long way away from likely targets (both civilian and military) - you don't need to be so very lucky to survive a nuclear war.
As I mentioned in a recent post, there are at least a few thousand nuclear weapons aimed at the US.I understand your point. I had a training class years ago that listed the 6 largest cities in the USA that were (supposedly) high priority targets. New York, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, and Los Angeles, and I think they also included DC. Of course large and strategic military basis would be targets but many of them are not in highly populated areas. Nellis AFB is near Las Vegas but the population numbers are not that significant. Area 51/Nevada Test Site is very isolated. Both of those pose the most concern to where I live down wind. Strategic sites in Wyoming and Montana are also very isolated.
Anything could be claimed as a valuable target depending on what damage an enemy would want to inflict. Taking out people and infrastructure would be much more effective in a highly populated city.
Some of those who don't make it will be killed instantly.If the button is ever pushed, those who didn't make it would be the lucky ones. I hear earth would be uninhabitable for 20 or more years.
Thank you! So many folks don't get that. Folks from back east and even family from Calif. laugh because when someone askes how far away a given place is, the answer often comes in the form of time. How far away is XYZ? About an hour. It depends not just on distance but roads, mountains, and weather.I can confirm. I've spent many nights at 35,000 feet watching out the window of a 737. Once you get west of Omaha, Kansas City, and Dallas/Ft. Worth, the ground gets dark real quick. It's the smaller towns that make the map seem like one continuous light source - they're so close it's almost like they're interconnected when you're out east. Out west, they're 25 to 50 miles apart, or more...
Looking at the map of Florida, you can see where all the Yankees are moving to.I remember seeing a photo of America at night in 1993 when I first went out there. I'm surprised at the rapid expansion.
I was laughing as I read this, because some of those same city folks have to do the same thing when simply going to the grocery store. When I was stuck living in Las Vegas it would take me 20 minutes to go 2 miles to the grocery store because traffic was so bad and it would take 3 or 4 light cycles to get through an intersection. The traffic issues in California with the commuters taking hours on the freeways to travel 60 miles each way to work have the same issues.Thank you! So many folks don't get that. Folks from back east and even family from Calif. laugh because when someone askes how far away a given place is, the answer often comes in the form of time. How far away is XYZ? About an hour. It depends not just on distance but roads, mountains, and weather.
Not this Yankee , I am in nys. I live in the Catskill mountains , no cities ,nearest small town is ten miles away, no neighbors that I can see .Looking at the map of Florida, you can see where all the Yankees are moving to.
I grew up and spent over half my life in one of those bright areas, in 1995 was Blessed by the Lord to be able to move to one of the dark spots.
Not this Yankee , I am in nys. I live in the Catskill mountains , no cities ,nearest small town is ten miles away, no neighbors that I can see .
because of nyc we get a bad rap . nearest small city is 90 min. away. I'm in the dark part . Never been to nyc and never will.
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