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EducationRe: Brutal Realities Of Life After A Nuclear War/Apocalypse. by Explorers(op): 7:19pm On Jul 02, 2017
Chemical Radiation Will Enter Our Bones.


Even with food to eat, the survivors will have to struggle with widespread cancer.

Shortly after the bombs hit, radioactive particles will go up into the sky and then fall down all around the world.

When they land, they’ll be so small and so spread out that we won’t be able to see them.

Butthey’ll still be able to kill us.

One of the chemicals is strontium-90, which tricks the body into thinking it’s calcium when inhaled or consumed.

The body sends these toxic chemicals straight into the bone marrow and the teeth, rattling the victim with bone cancer.

Whether we survive these radioactive particles has a little to do with luck.

It’s not entirely clear how long it will take for the particles to fall.

But if it takes long enough, we might survive.

If it takes two weeks before the particles fall, their radioactivity will go down 1,000-fold and we’ll be able to make it through alive.

Cancer rates will goup, life spans will get shorter, birth defects will become common but humanity won’t be wiped out.

EducationRe: Brutal Realities Of Life After A Nuclear War/Apocalypse. by Explorers(op): 7:04pm On Jul 02, 2017
Survivors Will Starve.



In a full-on nuclear holocaust, it will take years before anyone will be able to grow a reasonable amount of food.

With low temperatures, killing frosts, and vicious UV radiation from the sky, animals and crops wont survive

Many people will starve to death.

Those who survive will have to find ways to get food, but this won’t be easy.

People living by the ocean may have a slightly better chance because the seas will be slow to cool.

But life in the oceans will still be scarce.

The darkness from the blocked-out sky will kill off plankton, the major food source that keeps life thriving in the ocean.

Radioactive pollution will also be surging into the water, cutting down life and making it dangerous to eat anything fished out.

The majority of people who survive the explosions will not make it through the first five years.

Food will be too scarce, competition too vicious, and most will die.

EducationRe: Brutal Realities Of Life After A Nuclear War/Apocalypse. by Explorers(op):
The Ozone Layer Will Be Torn Apart.



Life, though, won’t be entirely back to normal.

A year after the bombs hit, some of the process putin motion by our contaminated atmosphere will start to tear a hole in the ozone layer.

This will be devastating.

Even with a small nuclear war that uses only 0.03 percent of the world’s arsenal, we can expect up to 50 percent of the ozone layer to be destroyed.

The world will be devastated by UV rays.

Plants will die around the world, and the living things that survive will struggle through crippling mutations of their DNA.

Even the most resilient crops will become weaker, smaller, and far less likely to reproduce.

So when the sky clears and the world warms up once more, growing food will be an incredibly difficult chore.

Whole fields will die when people try to grow food, and farmers who stay out in the Sun long enough to plant crops will die painful deaths from skin cancer.

EducationRe: Brutal Realities Of Life After A Nuclear War/Apocalypse. by Explorers(op):
It Will Be Too Cold To Grow Food(Global winter)




With the Sun blocked from the sky, the world’s temperature will drop.

Depending on how many bombs are launched, this could be a devastating shift.

In extreme cases, it’s expected that the global temperature could drop by as much as 20 degrees Celsius (36 °F).

If we have a total nuclear holocaust, we can expect the first year to end without a summer.

The weather during our growing seasons will feel like winter or even like a particularly brisk fall.

Growing food will be all but impossible.

Animals around the world will starve to death, and vegetables will wither and die.

This won’t be the dawn of a new ice age.

For the first five years, a killing frost will plague growing seasons and make them a month shorter.

But things will calm down a bit afterward, and the temperature will go back to normal after about 25years.

Life will continue as long as we can survive long enough to see it.

EducationRe: Brutal Realities Of Life After A Nuclear War/Apocalypse. by Explorers(op): 6:43pm On Jul 02, 2017
Smoke Will Block Out The Sun.





The areas around the blast centers will be charged with an incredible amount of energy and will burst intoflames.

Everything that can burn will burn. Buildings, forests, plastic, and even the asphalt in the roads will burn.

Oil refineries which were planned targets during the Cold War will explode in flames.

The fires that envelop every target of the nuclear bombs will send off a sooty, toxic smoke that will drift into the atmosphere and, from there, into the upper stratosphere.

A dark cloud of smoke 15 kilometers (9 mi) above the surface of the Earth will grow and move, shifted by the winds, until it covers the entire planet, blocking out the sky.

For the first years after the nuclear holocaust, this will be a simple reality of stepping outside.

For years, the Sun will no longer shine and we will only see black clouds overhead obscuring the light.

It’s hard to say for sure how long it will take until this drifts away and the blue sky showsagain.

But in a full nuclear holocaust, it’s believed that we won’t see a clear sky for more than 30 years.

EducationRe: Brutal Realities Of Life After A Nuclear War/Apocalypse. by Explorers(op): 6:10pm On Jul 02, 2017
An Electromagnetic Pulse Will Shut Off All Electricity.






When a nuclear explosion goes off, it can send out a pulse of electromagnetic radiation that can shut down an electrical system or even the electric grid for an entire country.

In one nuclear test, the pulse sent out by detonating a single atomic bomb was so powerful that it blew out street lamps, TV sets, and telephones in homes 1,600 kilometers (1,000mi) away from the blast center.

This, though, was an unplanned accident.

Since then, bombs have been designed to do it on purpose.

If a bomb designed to send off an electromagnetic pulse were to explode 400–480 kilometers (250–300 mi) over a country the size of the United States, the entire electric grid across the country would shut down.

So after the bombs fall, the lights will go out.

Every refrigerator storing food will shut down.

The data on every computer will be erased.

Worst of all, water treatment facilities will break down and we’ll lose clean drinking water.

It’s expected that it would take six months of concentrated work to get a country back online after it gets shut down.

But that’s assuming that people are free to work on it.

For a long time after the bombs fall, we can expect to live without electricity and without clean water.

EducationRe: Brutal Realities Of Life After A Nuclear War/Apocalypse. by Explorers(op): 6:06pm On Jul 02, 2017
Black Rain Will Start Falling.





Moments after the atomic bombs hit, a hard black rain will fall.

These won’t be little patters of raindrops clearing away the dust and the flames.

They’ll be thick, black globs with a texture like oil, and they might kill you.

In Hiroshima, the black rain started to fall 20 minutes after the bomb exploded.

It covered an area about 20 kilometers (12 mi) across around ground zero, covering the countryside with a thick liquid that could douse anyone it touched with up to 100 times more radiation than stepping into the blast center.

The city around the survivors was burning and tearing up the oxygen around them, and they were already dying of thirst.

Struggling through the flames, they’d become so desperate for water that many opened up their mouths and tried to drink the strange liquid falling from the sky.

There was enough radiation in that liquid, though, to make changes in a person’s blood.

It was strong enough that the after effects of the rain can still linger today in the places it landed back then.

We have every reason to believe that it’ll happen again if another bomb falls.

EducationRe: Brutal Realities Of Life After A Nuclear War/Apocalypse. by Explorers(op):
Enormous blasts, fires created by nuclear explosions in cities and industrial areas will cause 150 million tons of smoke to be lofted high into the stratosphere.

The smoke is quickly spread around the world and forms a dense smoke layer around both Hemispheres; the smoke will remain in the stratosphere for many years and act to block sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth.



Many nuclear warheads/weapons are on high alert and launched in 1-3minutes at targets around the world and detonated in retaliation for the initial attacks.


Hundreds of large cities around the world are engulfed in massive firestorms which burn urban areas of tens or hundreds of thousands of square miles/kilometers.


150 million tons of smoke from nuclear fires rises above cloud level, into the stratosphere, where it quickly spreads around the world and forms a dense stratospheric cloud layer.


The smoke will remain there for many years to block and absorb sunlight.



The smoke blocks over 70% of the sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface in the Northern Hemisphere, and up to 35% of the sunlight is also blocked in the Southern Hemisphere.


In the absence of warming sunlight, surface temperatures on Earth become as cold or colder than they were 18,000 years ago at the height of the last Ice Age.


*. 150 million tons of smoke in the stratosphere would cause minimum daily temperatures in the largest agricultural regions of the Northern Hemisphere to drop below freezing for years.

Nightly killing frosts would occur and prevent food from being grown.



*. Average global precipitation would be reduced by 45% due to the prolonged cold.


*. Growing seasons would be virtually eliminated for many years.



*. Massive destruction of the protective ozone layer would also occur, allowing intense levels of dangerous UV light to penetrate the atmosphere and reach the surface of the Earth.



*. Massive amounts of radioactive fallout would be generated and spread both locally and globally.



The targeting of nuclear reactors would significantly increase fallout of long-lived isotopes.



*. Gigantic ground-hugging clouds of toxic smoke would be released from the fires; enormous quantities of industrial chemicals would also enter the environment.



*. It would be impossible for many living things to survive the extreme rapidity and degree of changes in temperature and precipitation, combined with drastic increases in UV light, massive radioactive fallout, and massive releases of toxins and industrial chemicals.



*. Already stressed land and marine ecosystems would collapse.



*. Unable to grow food, most humans would starve to death.



*. A mass extinction event would occur, similar to what happened 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs were wiped out following a large asteroid impact with Earth (70% of species became extinct, including all animals greater than 25 kilograms in weight).



*. Even most humans living in shelters, bunkers equipped with many years worth of food, water, energy, and medical supplies would probably not survive in the hostile post-war environment.

EducationBrutal Realities Of Life After A Nuclear War/Apocalypse. by Explorers(op):
When the bombs fall, the face of the planet will be forever changed.

For 50 years, that terror lingered behind every moment.

The world lived with the knowledge that one person just had to hit the button first and the nuclear holocaust would come.

The bombs are still there, just waiting for someone to press the button first.

Scientists have run tests and simulations to understand what life will be like after the bomb.

Some people will survive.

But life in the smoldering remains of a devastated world will be completely changed.







http://listverse.com/2017/06/23/10-brutal-realities-of-life-after-the-nuclear-apocalypse/

http://www.nucleardarkness.org/warconsequences/hundredfiftytonessmoke/

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

TravelRe: What You Really Need To Know About Migration Throughout The History Of Mankind. by Explorers(op): 5:45pm On Jul 02, 2017
Migrant Workers Make Up Over 90 Percent Of Qatar’s Population And They’re Not Happy.






Amnesty International published a report in 2016 that highlighted the shocking conditions faced by migrant workers in Qatar.

Workers reported a whole host of problems, including being forced to work long hours with no days off, having passports confiscated, suffering physical abuse from their employers, and having to pay huge “recruitment fees.”




http://listverse.com/2017/06/24/top-10-fascinating-facts-about-qatar/

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

TravelRe: Fascinating Then And Now Photos Shows How Dubai Has Changed In Few Years. by Explorers(op): 5:39pm On Jul 02, 2017
onos217:
Explorer, you left heart-broken with this one.
But is the fact.
Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op): 5:06pm On Jul 02, 2017
EgunMogaji:
Oga moderator, my favorite city is named two words. Please correct the spelling.
I know, purposely did that cos of space.
Science/TechnologyRe: World's Largest Cargo Ship That Can Carry 21,000 Containers Launched(Photos) by Explorers(op): 1:04pm On Jul 02, 2017
Emusan:
I just exploit that thread and it's breathtaking.

I'm sure in future we won't hear anything like ship anymore but a moving city on sea.

I don't know maybe they already have this idea but I'm very sure the next 2-4 one after harmony of the sea will have a football pitch.
I think the exploit you used should be explore or what do you think?

http://glamgrid.com/freedom-ship-the-largest-ship-ever-built-and-the-first-floating-city/
Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op): 11:17am On Jul 02, 2017
UncleSnr:
The Homie in the first pic be like "Thank you papa Jesus, I can't believe this".
Lol......
Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op): 5:36am On Jul 02, 2017
Bryce Tallitsch hangs up a sign for recreational marijuana at the NuLeaf dispensary in Las Vegas on Friday night.


Of the 48 dispensaries in Nevada 15 opened at midnight, including a larger dispensary called Essence on the Las Vegas Strip.

All dispensaries had worked furiously for eight months to prepare for the launch.


Voters approved the new legalisation eight months ago, making this the quickest turnaround from the ballot box to sales in the US.

While anyone who is 21 with a valid ID can snap up an ounce of pot or one-eighth of an ounce of edibles or concentrates, they'll have to bring cash.

Virtually no banks will take on accounts from marijuana companies, which means the industry is entirely cash-based.

Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op): 5:33am On Jul 02, 2017
Kyle and Christian Flint were also near the front of the line.


‘Cannabis takes care of the pain, I’m 6ft 8ins, I grew fast.

Seriously, it helps with the bones, helps me relax after work,' said Kyle.

Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op): 5:31am On Jul 02, 2017
Where the crop is grown: Marijuana plants receive light at the Desert Grown Farms cultivation facility in Las Vegas on June 28 just prior to going on sale across Nevada.

Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op): 5:29am On Jul 02, 2017
Edible cannabis products are displayed at Essence Vegas Cannabis Dispensary before the midnight start of recreational marijuana sales on June 30, 2017 in Las Vegas.

Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op): 5:28am On Jul 02, 2017
Staff at Euphoria make the final preparations before opening their doors at the midnight.

Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op): 5:26am On Jul 02, 2017
Excitement.

Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op): 5:23am On Jul 02, 2017
Customers flooded into the Essence dispensary to examine the wares and buy up to an ounce of marijuana legally.


Cashiers rings up marijuana sale as Nevada becomes the fifth state to legally sell weed for recreational purposes.

Foreign AffairsRe: Hundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op):
A man shops for marijuana at The Source dispensary shortly after it opened on the stroke of midnight on Saturday.


Nevada became the fifth state to legalize marijuana at 12.01am on Saturday.

Foreign AffairsHundreds Line Up In LasVegas To Buy Marijuana After Legalization(Photos) by Explorers(op):
The doors swung open at the stroke of midnight and the first of thousands of customers poured in all eager to be part of history.


At 12.01am Saturday, Nevada became the fifth state in the US to make selling recreational marijuana legal and fans of the drug came out in force.

Party town Las Vegas will be the biggest winner from the new legislation with a huge tax windfall of up to $60million predicted for the first two years.

Millions of tourists visiting Sin City are expected to make nearly two of every three purchases from marijuana retailers.

Some in the industry have said Vegas which attracts more than 42 million tourists annually will become the ‘mecca for marijuana’ overtakingthe likes of Amsterdam in Holland as the world capital of cannabis.




More than 500 people lined up outside the Euphoria Wellness dispensary in Enterprise, on the outskirts of Las Vegas, and cheers erupted as the doors opened.





https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/01/leafing-las-vegas-recreational-marijuana-nevada?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C3445047476

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4657822/Midnight-lines-celebration-Nevada-legalizes-weed.html

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

CrimeRe: The Federal Secretariat Building In Abuja On Fire by Explorers(m): 5:52pm On Jul 01, 2017
whitebeard:
I am not saying it a lie, I am only saying the fire is not big like this..
Lol.....This is mushroom cloud, not only the building but the city or the has finished.
NYSCRe: Corper To Rebuild Rashidi Yekini’s Grave (Photos) by Explorers(m): 5:40pm On Jul 01, 2017
Eeyah
RomanceRe: Wish A Nairalander Happy New Month by Explorers(m): 11:55am On Jul 01, 2017
MzEddytan:
happy new month to Ekuru , Dewalcod, DaddyGngeess, tosyne2much, lalasticlala, Explorers, mmreport, Toks2008, femi4 and Osunra.
Same wishes sis, God's blessings this new month.
SportsRe: Some Insane And Difficult Yoga Poses People Wouldn't Dream Of Trying(Photos) by Explorers(op): 8:38am On Jul 01, 2017
18. Universe.

SportsRe: Some Insane And Difficult Yoga Poses People Wouldn't Dream Of Trying(Photos) by Explorers(op): 8:37am On Jul 01, 2017
17.

SportsRe: Some Insane And Difficult Yoga Poses People Wouldn't Dream Of Trying(Photos) by Explorers(op): 8:35am On Jul 01, 2017
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SportsRe: Some Insane And Difficult Yoga Poses People Wouldn't Dream Of Trying(Photos) by Explorers(op): 8:26am On Jul 01, 2017
15. Scorpion Pose Variation.

SportsRe: Some Insane And Difficult Yoga Poses People Wouldn't Dream Of Trying(Photos) by Explorers(op): 8:24am On Jul 01, 2017
adwem2003:
All I can see is sex position.
Sex positions, but 95% of girls will break or pass out trying any of these
SportsRe: Some Insane And Difficult Yoga Poses People Wouldn't Dream Of Trying(Photos) by Explorers(op): 8:15am On Jul 01, 2017
14. Yoga Sleep Pose

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