The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions

Re:The human body is already close to thermal limits in many... by chroma on Monday July 29, 2019 @09:31AM (#20554379)

Around 2,500 nuclear weapons have been detonated in tests[1] and we're still here. The two cities that have been nuked were rebuilt.

An all-out nuclear exchange would kill a lot of people and send humanity back to the early industrial or pre-industrial era, but it's not an extinction risk.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests

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Re:The human body is already close to thermal limits in many... by ceejayoz on Monday July 29, 2019 @09:55AM (#20554600)

Humans have survived thousands of volcano eruptions, but I suspect we'd be in worse shape if thousands of volcanoes erupted all at once.

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Re:The human body is already close to thermal limits in many... by titzer on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:04AM (#20554689)

> Around 2,500 nuclear weapons have been detonated in tests[1]

The vast majority of those were underground, and they were not all at the same time.

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