• Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Thing about bunkers is, they need a door to get in and out through, and doors are pretty susceptible to being sealed in with a relatively small amount of concrete…

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Thermodynamics? What thermodynamics? If it gets hot just refrigerate it. /s

        IIRC one of the US nuclear apocalypse bunkers is built over an underground river, as much for the heat discharge as for the water. After that by far the biggest PITA is farming, although if you’re not expecting decades you can do cans in a much smaller area.

        (Side note, you play DF?)

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          (Side note, you play DF?)

          Been playing since 2006 💪💪💪💪💪

          I even dug up the little column that tipped me off, out of pure nostalgia!

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          What a time to be alive! Watching worldgen on my Dell potato was mind-blowing

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    13 hours ago

    Okay, sure … but even 60 meters underground is pretty fucking deep, really. (~200ft, for the metric-challenged folks) Quite the excavation project, if you don’t already have a natural cave. And even a lot of natural caves aren’t quite that deep.

    And building something 200-300 meters underground starts to become quite an engineering challenge.

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      12 hours ago

      That’s why we use submarines as final strike nuclear platforms. Water blocks explosions nearly as well and a submarine can move out of the way.

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    12 hours ago

    Hypothetically, if a surface nuke can make a 100 meter deep crater, what happens if you nuke the ground above a deep bunker, send another nuke to strike the deepest point of the crater, another nuke to the bottom of that crater, and so on?

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    You have to come out eventually…

    Or, as others have said, just seal up the entrance and let the bunker become your tomb.

  • Bazell@lemmy.zip
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    Gravitational bombs? You know, the ones that can pass through hard matter and accelerate your head through your spine into your ass? /j