Yep. And given how short human lifespans are, and how long medical research has historically taken, the ‘blade of the knife’ is 10 years across. With the glacial speed of current medical research it’s more like 20-30.
It’s not fundamentally different from the backyard bunker boom in the past. That’s a knife blade—you’re far enough from the blast not to be killed immediately, but not so far your house doesn’t burn to the ground from the blast wave and followup firestorm. And then your crude bunker doesn’t accumulate enough radioactive fallout for the dose to be fatal, and you don’t run out of supplies before it’s cool enough to survive the wasteland above long enough to escape on foot.
Yep. And given how short human lifespans are, and how long medical research has historically taken, the ‘blade of the knife’ is 10 years across. With the glacial speed of current medical research it’s more like 20-30.
It’s not fundamentally different from the backyard bunker boom in the past. That’s a knife blade—you’re far enough from the blast not to be killed immediately, but not so far your house doesn’t burn to the ground from the blast wave and followup firestorm. And then your crude bunker doesn’t accumulate enough radioactive fallout for the dose to be fatal, and you don’t run out of supplies before it’s cool enough to survive the wasteland above long enough to escape on foot.