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Character concept? I dunno.
He (I use that loosely) actually kind of inspired by the "persocoms" of Chobits or maybe the anthroPCs of Questionable Content. He's a mobile computer. He's got ball joints and his legs blunt off chibi style but he's got very good balance and he's quite quick.
Why the gasmask face? It's just a stylish way to obscure the computer ports in his face. He's part of a designer line of "artsy" small mobile AI computers for people who aren't into the "real" look. It's not actually a mask, it's how his head is shaped. The filters are dummy, though one's probably a wireless transmitter or something. He hasn't got eyes under their either, it's actually his optical ports. Could be glassy camera lenses or could be a color shifting screen, haven't decided.
Not sure I'll do anything with this. Can't decide what version of the eye ports I like either. Thoughts loved.
He (I use that loosely) actually kind of inspired by the "persocoms" of Chobits or maybe the anthroPCs of Questionable Content. He's a mobile computer. He's got ball joints and his legs blunt off chibi style but he's got very good balance and he's quite quick.
Why the gasmask face? It's just a stylish way to obscure the computer ports in his face. He's part of a designer line of "artsy" small mobile AI computers for people who aren't into the "real" look. It's not actually a mask, it's how his head is shaped. The filters are dummy, though one's probably a wireless transmitter or something. He hasn't got eyes under their either, it's actually his optical ports. Could be glassy camera lenses or could be a color shifting screen, haven't decided.
Not sure I'll do anything with this. Can't decide what version of the eye ports I like either. Thoughts loved.
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Ok, uh... keep in mind, bombs aren't my expertise, but...
Modern nukes aren't actually all that radioactive, as far as I know. It's just using the source to kick an explosion. The thing is, nuclear bombs don't generally detonate on the ground. They detonate above the ground if they're dropped from an airplane and you basically get a circular explosion range. To that end, the modern ones don't have a big footprint either.
The thing about nuclear bombs is, you've made an area hard to traverse. If you're in an active war you want to be able to send people in as soon as possible afterwards, and any radiation that's hanging around will seriously trip that shit up.
As for underground bunkers, earth and cement are VERY good at attenuating radiation, but the radiation isn't your immediate concern. You're looking at a shockwave, high heat, all the usual bomb effects. If you could weather that it's just a question of how close you are to ground zero... and how high the radiation is.
Now here's where it gets fun. If you're not at ground zero (which is pretty much a goodbye no matter what kind of high profile explosive it is), it's just a matter of getting away from the radiation, depending on the dose. The human body can take several hundred REM and comfortably recover with some medical support (most people, anyway). So after some initial delays for the actual explosion to wrap up, the trick is simply get the hell away.. and if you're bright you'll have some dose tracking equipment, like a TLD, a just started ED, and a geiger counter or ion chamber (ion chamber might be better if we're talking dose rates, especially since geiger counters tend to lose their shit if in a really high field).
All theoretical of course. You'd really have to look at how much fallout is to be expected and how far away from the center of the blast. Really, unless you're at ground zero.. you'd probably be fine, especially with all that shielding. And a gasmask ain't gonna help you anyway, unless you're dealing with particulates (like, ash from a fire) or chemicals (and you better have the right filter in that case).
That being said, anything to actually say about my little AI concept? :P It's ok if you don't.
Modern nukes aren't actually all that radioactive, as far as I know. It's just using the source to kick an explosion. The thing is, nuclear bombs don't generally detonate on the ground. They detonate above the ground if they're dropped from an airplane and you basically get a circular explosion range. To that end, the modern ones don't have a big footprint either.
The thing about nuclear bombs is, you've made an area hard to traverse. If you're in an active war you want to be able to send people in as soon as possible afterwards, and any radiation that's hanging around will seriously trip that shit up.
As for underground bunkers, earth and cement are VERY good at attenuating radiation, but the radiation isn't your immediate concern. You're looking at a shockwave, high heat, all the usual bomb effects. If you could weather that it's just a question of how close you are to ground zero... and how high the radiation is.
Now here's where it gets fun. If you're not at ground zero (which is pretty much a goodbye no matter what kind of high profile explosive it is), it's just a matter of getting away from the radiation, depending on the dose. The human body can take several hundred REM and comfortably recover with some medical support (most people, anyway). So after some initial delays for the actual explosion to wrap up, the trick is simply get the hell away.. and if you're bright you'll have some dose tracking equipment, like a TLD, a just started ED, and a geiger counter or ion chamber (ion chamber might be better if we're talking dose rates, especially since geiger counters tend to lose their shit if in a really high field).
All theoretical of course. You'd really have to look at how much fallout is to be expected and how far away from the center of the blast. Really, unless you're at ground zero.. you'd probably be fine, especially with all that shielding. And a gasmask ain't gonna help you anyway, unless you're dealing with particulates (like, ash from a fire) or chemicals (and you better have the right filter in that case).
That being said, anything to actually say about my little AI concept? :P It's ok if you don't.
Radiation sickness is the normal term, but to really get into this we'll have to talk about why mass amount of radiations will kill you.
It's basically death by chemical imbalance in your body. When radiation (of any kind, really) smacks into your body, it interacts with you on an atomic level, generally doing so by ionization... the removal of orbit electrons from the atoms that make you up. This changes the properties of the ionized atom and changes the chemistry of the cell it's in. Like, say, if you're in your basement and you breathe in radon, radon is generally an alpha.. so when you breathe it in, it's going to yoink two electrons from you or somethings else, then be stable.
Now, from a body standpoint, a cell can react several ways when it's chemically thrown off. One is repair, the cell readjusts to default and goes about its business. One is death, where the cell can't fix the chemical alteration and kicks the bucket (it should be noted that cells regularly replace themselves anyway). The third and most famously inflated is mutation, where the cell works around its injury and goes snooker loopy. This is how radiation is simultaneously accused of causing cancer while curing cancer in medical labs... because it's possible that radiation can, by chance, kick start something horrible in your body, but also in concentrated streams it will kill everything including a cancer tumor (and possibly cockroaches).
Now, you're exposed to radiation every day. It's called background radiation, and it's anywhere from 350 millirem to 21 rem a year (that 21 rem being the max yearly dose just from living in Ramsar, Iran, which has a natural high background radiation). This is generally natural and there's not a lot to be done about it. Now you can expose yourself to more, by medical treatments, flying on planes, or smoking (yes, smoking is radioactive). What you're talking about, radiation sickness, is an ACUTE dose... in other words, all at once or in a VERY short period of time. People undergoing cancer therapy will show signs of this, usually in throwing up, losing hair, reddening skin, et cetera.
Now, if you did get exposed to an acute dose, that reddening skin would actually be one of the first warnings that you saw lots of exposure. According to Gollnick, who wrote an absolutely unreadable technical book about this stuff, you won't actually get into the "sickness" until you get into more than 150 rem acute. At that point within six hours you'll be puking, and you'll start seeing some blood changes. That being said, most people will weather this just fine. They'll see a doctor a few times and probably have to be full body counted regularly for a while, but your body can recover from 150 rem acute. Hell, up to around 500 or 600 rem acute, you will recover, but you need increasing medical support. Also, as dose increases the delay time until throwing up everything you've ever ate starts to drop. When you hit pushing a thousand rem, it's like a delay of half an hour and you are going to die, sorry, unless you have major medical attention for a very long time and the luck of Coyote.
That being said, there's a German physicist who took 10K rem to the side of the head and is still alive today. And the guys who flew over Chernobyl in a helicopter saw dose so crazy their counter blew up, and weathered it I guess. It IS possible to survive more. Just... unlikely. Which is why we're talking about dose and dose rate re: explosions. If the outside dose rate is reasonably low (even if it's massively high by nuclear power industry standards), you can just walk your merry ass out of there and probably be several miles away before you take a lot of dose, and radiation will drop off with distance.
It's basically death by chemical imbalance in your body. When radiation (of any kind, really) smacks into your body, it interacts with you on an atomic level, generally doing so by ionization... the removal of orbit electrons from the atoms that make you up. This changes the properties of the ionized atom and changes the chemistry of the cell it's in. Like, say, if you're in your basement and you breathe in radon, radon is generally an alpha.. so when you breathe it in, it's going to yoink two electrons from you or somethings else, then be stable.
Now, from a body standpoint, a cell can react several ways when it's chemically thrown off. One is repair, the cell readjusts to default and goes about its business. One is death, where the cell can't fix the chemical alteration and kicks the bucket (it should be noted that cells regularly replace themselves anyway). The third and most famously inflated is mutation, where the cell works around its injury and goes snooker loopy. This is how radiation is simultaneously accused of causing cancer while curing cancer in medical labs... because it's possible that radiation can, by chance, kick start something horrible in your body, but also in concentrated streams it will kill everything including a cancer tumor (and possibly cockroaches).
Now, you're exposed to radiation every day. It's called background radiation, and it's anywhere from 350 millirem to 21 rem a year (that 21 rem being the max yearly dose just from living in Ramsar, Iran, which has a natural high background radiation). This is generally natural and there's not a lot to be done about it. Now you can expose yourself to more, by medical treatments, flying on planes, or smoking (yes, smoking is radioactive). What you're talking about, radiation sickness, is an ACUTE dose... in other words, all at once or in a VERY short period of time. People undergoing cancer therapy will show signs of this, usually in throwing up, losing hair, reddening skin, et cetera.
Now, if you did get exposed to an acute dose, that reddening skin would actually be one of the first warnings that you saw lots of exposure. According to Gollnick, who wrote an absolutely unreadable technical book about this stuff, you won't actually get into the "sickness" until you get into more than 150 rem acute. At that point within six hours you'll be puking, and you'll start seeing some blood changes. That being said, most people will weather this just fine. They'll see a doctor a few times and probably have to be full body counted regularly for a while, but your body can recover from 150 rem acute. Hell, up to around 500 or 600 rem acute, you will recover, but you need increasing medical support. Also, as dose increases the delay time until throwing up everything you've ever ate starts to drop. When you hit pushing a thousand rem, it's like a delay of half an hour and you are going to die, sorry, unless you have major medical attention for a very long time and the luck of Coyote.
That being said, there's a German physicist who took 10K rem to the side of the head and is still alive today. And the guys who flew over Chernobyl in a helicopter saw dose so crazy their counter blew up, and weathered it I guess. It IS possible to survive more. Just... unlikely. Which is why we're talking about dose and dose rate re: explosions. If the outside dose rate is reasonably low (even if it's massively high by nuclear power industry standards), you can just walk your merry ass out of there and probably be several miles away before you take a lot of dose, and radiation will drop off with distance.
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