Like this:

But replace “Hawaii” with your location.

🙃

  • Aksamit@slrpnk.net
    6·
    7 days ago

    Make sure my phone was actually on silent, put ear plugs in and go back to sleep. I’m too fucking tired to try and survive anything more.

  • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
    3·
    7 days ago

    I’d be setting off the pair of sirens I own, then awaiting the inevitable. Thankfully I live in an area where the chance of being vaporized is quite high.

  • SuperApples@lemmy.world
    96·
    9 days ago

    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.

    • tht@social.pwned.pageEnglish
      126·
      9 days ago

      Modern nuclear reactors won’t meltdown if shot, just turn off so only gonna be more dangerous if they specifically target electricity infrastructure

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        312·
        9 days ago

        Modern nuclear reactors won’t meltdown if shot

        we hope. never having tested nearby strikes, there’s no way to know how resilient to catastrophe these things are, and even when over-engineered with an eye on safety in the worst conditions, fukushima illustrates that everything can go wrong in a cascade and still render them unsafe.

        honestly, coastal nuclear power stations like diablo canyon and fukushima are going to be interacting with larger and more violent storms in the future, and tsunamis etc., perhaps there are better places for them.

        • tht@social.pwned.pageEnglish
          515·
          9 days ago

          Not really, modern Thorium reactors simply can’t meltdown, it’s no safety, simply not possible they are the Future

          • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            71·
            9 days ago

            it may be physically impossible but until we test them with catastrophic conditions we won’t know. that said, their long history of fail-safe fail states and the extremely reduced physical constraints (lower pressure, lower temps, lower amounts of fissile material, lower enrichment, etc.,) make me think you’re right, but it’s gonna be hard to prove because we’re having such difficulty getting the larger industry to test the shit much less deploy it in any reasonable amount of time.

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
        151·
        9 days ago

        Not to make anyone nervous, but dropping a fuckass big missile on a pile of very secure and safe nuclear material will still scatter that material in a wide area, and wind will make it worse.

        But no, making a modern nuclear suffer a meltdown is basically impossible

        • tht@social.pwned.pageEnglish
          24·
          8 days ago

          If someone drops a nuke I think you will have bigger problems than the lack of electricity

          • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
            3·
            8 days ago

            That’s exactly what I’m saying… If you live near a nuclear power plant, you’re a potential target. Cause the bomb doesn’t destroy the plant, it destroys the city it’s in and several towns around it.

            The plant is a target because hitting the plant makes the power go out for the whole region, but your problem is the warhead. Meltdowns don’t factor in at any point.

      • SuperApples@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 days ago

        If they are built and maintained correctly. And meltdown isn’t the only problem that could occur.

        I don’t have much faith in a corrupt, self-regulated industry, with strong yakuza ties, to do things 100% the correct way, especially given everything we know about the industry post 2011. Knowing how much local political power the company has, I know they could literally get away with murder, as no politician or police would want to be on their bad side.

        Don’t get me wrong, the missile was still the biggest threat, but I do believe the power plant isn’t necessarily safe. An engineering and/or scientific understanding of a modern power plant doesn’t mean shit if you don’t consider the political and capitalist systems the that underpin their construction and maintenance.

        • Tricky@lemmy.world
          2·
          7 days ago

          Could you recommend any reading about the Yakuza involvement in the industry? Super fascinating but it’s the first I’ve heard if it

          Thanks

  • superkret@feddit.org
    62·
    9 days ago

    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).

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
    46·
    9 days ago

    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

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      17·
      9 days ago

      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.

      • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
        30·
        9 days ago

        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.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      8 days ago

      I mean, I’ve got a WAN connection and two Sim Cards connected to different mobile providers, but at some point they probably all depend on parts of the same infrastructure.

      Maybe I should look into some distributed networking stuff…

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
    401·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • dustycups@aussie.zone
    28·
    8 days ago

    The man sitting next to Ford was a bit sozzled by now. His eyes weaved their way up to Ford.
    'I thought,’ he said ‘that if the world was going to end we were meant to lie down or put a paper bag over our head or something.’
    ‘If you like, yes,’ said Ford. ‘That’s what they told us in the army,’ said the man, and his eyes began the long trek back towards his whisky. ‘Will that help?’ asked the barman. ‘No,’ said Ford and gave him a friendly smile.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    282·
    9 days ago

    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:

    1. Center of my cinderblock house and hope for the best.

    2. Submerged in the hot tub and hope for the best.