Like this:
But replace “Hawaii” with your location.
🙃
We were in this scenario last year, when NK launched a missile towards Hokkaido, and we were on the west coast, just next to a nuclear reactor.
After getting the altert, we put on clothes, went downstairs to the sturdiest room, stuck on the TV to the NHK news, and waited. The missle plopped into the ocean off the coast, and we had tempura for lunch.
There’s really nothing you can do in these situations but stay calm and do the small, sensible things.
At my current location, I’d expect it to be an error, since I’m about 1500 miles away from the nearest worthwhile target (Chilean Antartica Region).
Maybe you’re more important than you give yourself credit for.
In that case, the only immediately available shelter that would have any effect at all is the sweet embrace of a bottle of gin.
Take comfort in the knowledge that somebody out there with launch authority is thinking of you. Immolation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Please send penguin pics or else you’ll be wishing for a ballistic missile
Penguin tax:
Payment accepted. Dress code observed.
My babies ❤️
LOVE this!!! Do you have rock hoppers or macaroni penguins near you? Love those two species.
No, only Magellan Penguins.
But they’re cute as hell!
Whaaaat. Is this even allowed!?
What are you gonna do, call the seals? (Please don’t)
I tried, but they just said “ORF, ORF, ORF!”. Seals don’t seem to understand English.
awww cuty pingwy
Cool! how is the Antarctic? I live in the Arctic.
Cool 😎
19 hours of sunshine, 0-10 degrees Celsius, windy as fuck, and you better apply the strongest sunscreen you can get 3x a day or you’ll regret it.We’re experiencing a couple of hours of twilight at midday at the moment but otherwise darkness. No aurora either because it’s been mostly cloudy since the beginning of polar night. Also it’s been raining on and off, which is not a good sign.
Those penguins have it coming.
nooo 😭
I’d immediately go into the basement and start memeing. I have redundant internet connections for these kinds of situations so I should still be able to post memes. I’m locally hosting a Mastodon instance so I can post even if the internet is down globally. I also have a TCP-over-HF setup so that I can post memes anywhere in the world without intermediate infrastructure. If humanity is completely destroyed, I would start memeing and rickrolling on cave walls for future generation
TCP-over-HF
I am quite interested in that. How did you achieve it? Is there some license-free band? As far as I know encryption is not allowed for any ham radio transmissions. What’s the bandwidth? It seems packet radio on HF is 300 baud.
TCP-over-HF is very slow, even with a lot of compression and low resolution the max throughput is about 4 memes per hour. I want maximum distribution of my memes so I wouldn’t use any encryption.
How many kbits/s?
I do the same thing for a missile alert that I do for a tornado alert…
Film it from my front porch as it gets uncomfortably close, while my wife screams in the background for me to get back in the house.
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What a dumb message. Of course this is not a drill. This is a phone. My drill doesn’t have the means to accept incoming messages.
This ain’t my dad! This is a cell phone!
Happy birthday to the ground!
you need to acquire a better drill then
Nothing. Everyone is going to get the same alert and freak the fuck out, clogging all the roads, making it impossible to get to a shelter.
I have 2 choices:
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Center of my cinderblock house and hope for the best.
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Submerged in the hot tub and hope for the best.
Option number C. Just pretend like nothing happened, probably a false alarm like last time.
Whats the worst that can happen?
In that case, hot tub. False alarm? Still got a soak in the hot tub. :)
Submerged in the neighbour’s wife/daughter/pool boy/donkey (delete as appropriate)?
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My wife’s cousin actually got this text while on vacation in Hawaii. Said he just sparked up a joint n hoped for the best. It worked, so maybe I’ll do the same.
Smoke them if you have them. Why freak out.
Kiss my wife, and my ass goodbye. There are no shelters here.
Did you have several ribs removed?
Kiss my wife, and my ass
Careful about the order of actions.
Hope I get obliterated by a direct hit
Honestly. Never got preppers.
What world post nukes will be worth trying to live in? Best result instant vaporization.
It could be pretty fun up in the mountains, or in small towns that didn’t get hit with fallout.
Humanity was forged by a hostile world and we’ve been pushed to the brink of oblivion at least once. We adapt. I probably live too close to a major population center to survive the initial hits or the first months of total collapse so that’s a bummer, but I wouldn’t just lie down and take it.
Is the pre-nuke world really anything to write home about? A life of hunting, fishing, and murdering drunk russian soldiers with piano wire is honestly more appealing than working an office job.
It’s more honest.
Exactly
Just another Tuesday for me
Update: oh hey, there’s one right now
Are you in Palestine?
In Ukraine
Glory to Ukraine!
Edit: and fuck Putin!
Glory to the heroes!
Same here. My city’s buildings are not made with missile protection in mind. We don’t even have basements for tornado protection since tornados barely ever happen here. And if an earthquake strikes, you’re basically doomed to live in a tent for the next decade of your life assuming you survive.
I hate Morocco so much.
My phone is usually dead, misplaced, or the volume is at 0%. So I would probably crack a beer and stand on the porch wondering why the neighbors are freaking out.
If you have a good emergency infrastructure in your country, the volume being at 0% should not be an issue.
You will likely still hear the cell broadcast. Alerts of this level make every phone give off a piercing sound and even if your phone is dead, you will hear it from your neighbours’ because it’s loud.
If your phone and early warning systems support cell broadcasting you will still get notified. Cell broadcast alarms are always at full volume, regardless of your settings.
I’ve done my best to disable all emergency alerts on my mobile device with the stock OS. Time will tell I suppose.
Edit: ah balls, you’re right. Android says the ‘national alert’ category can’t be turned off.
Same boat, after I got a series of very loud “flash flood” alerts going late into the night. Every time the timeframe was extended there was another alert. I did not fancy being woken up at 2 am in my second floor bedroom to a alert telling me to stay off the roads.
What brand is it? I don’t see national alert as a setting?
It’s a Motorola something
I would know it’s fake because nobody is nuking our small country.
you never know when the goodtime oilbug will bite 🇺🇲
We don’t have any oil luckily.
I would invite everyone to my bomb shelter.
Thanks Ned!
Old painty-can Ned
Who is Ned?
I would not believe that message, because real warnings would not be that specific around here, and they also would never add that funny phrase " this is not a drill"
(Actual drills outside of the military are announced at least several days in advance, if they expect people to cooperate)
they also would never add that funny phrase " this is not a drill"
