Comments on: Mapping Doomsday

By: patrick h. lauke

patrick h. lauke — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:24:35 +0000

looks like somebody was "inspired" by this recently: ground zero maplet

By: novolocus.com » Blog Archive » Morbid

novolocus.com » Blog Archive » Morbid — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:42:36 +0000

[...] strangely fascinating. How safe is your house from Nuclear attack. London is ‘ -0.13, 51.5 ‘. And that’s ‘Nu-clear’ for any Americans, [...]

By: TrailerParkJawa

TrailerParkJawa — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:29:10 +0000

I’ve been curious about calculating the effects of nuclear strikes on the refineries in the SF Bay Area for a while. Like your friend this has a basis in high school during the 80′s. In my case its a role playing game called Twilight 2000.

Anyway, I stumbled on your calculator last night and it is almost exactly what I was looking for or trying to accomplish. Just wanted to give you some props and say that your work is pretty cool. Even if it is a bit depressing to calculate the destruction of your home. :-)

By: Smarter Stuff

Smarter Stuff — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:55:53 +0000

Da Bomb

First, I want to recommend to you Susan Kitchen’s excellent series of posts on the events surrounding the first three atomic bomb explosions (Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki). She’s blogging like it was 1945, which really brings history to life. I

By: leonsPetrazickis.blog » Blog Archive » But he’s a pussy superstar

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:49:10 +0000

[...] aimed, and McGonagall straightened up with a grin, just as good as new. – misia Profound Eric Meyer has written a Nuke Simulator using the Google Maps API. Cool. If anyone [...]

By: Noah Tye

Noah Tye — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:08:18 +0000

“Dad, Noah’s having fun blowing up the world…”

By: djsunkid

djsunkid — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:49:45 +0000

The Halifax Explosion shattered glass in Truro, 100km away, even though it was only approximately 2kt

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:03:19 +0000

“Still, I felt confident in asserting that no way would Norwalk be destroyed. Not even with a 20-megaton warhead, which was what he remembered using in his example. A few windows might get shattered, and of course if the wind were from the southwest they”d be getting a whole lot of fallout”

Actually, if you are close enough to a nuclear explosion to have the windows even rattle, you will be killed very quickly by the radiation, making the “hide under the desk from broken glass” drill pointless. If it SHATTERED glass? Well, you’d better head to church.

By: The Indiana Jones School of Management

The Indiana Jones School of Management — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:06:32 +0000

Eric Meyer’s HYDESim

Eric Meyer’s put together “HYDESim“, a program designed to show you what would happen if you dropped a nuke on a certain place.
If you need your lat/long coordinates, check out Wikipedia for your town [or the location nearest to you…

By: Damien

Damien — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:23:21 +0000

“that’s wack yo” sums up my opinion quite nicely.

Anyone know the Redmond street address? ;-)

Better watch out, Eric, you might be labelled a terrorist for giving people a tool to see how much destruction you can do with a nuke. :-|

Damien

By: Small Paul

Small Paul — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:14:03 +0000

Sweet. I’m particularly enjoying the incongruously boyish enthusiasm over cataclysmic nuclear scenarios :)

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:08:54 +0000

Is it assumed that only US cities are susceptible to attacks? [sarcasm] The drop-down menu suggests so.

You have proven to me that you can very proficiently code the code as well as talk the talk. Excellent work.

By: Kevin Marino

Kevin Marino — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:09:22 +0000

Wow, nice work Eric. I guess the authorities will come knocking soon enough ;P.

I have a 2nd edition of that book from high school in the mid-80s. Nice to know there is someone else out there with an interesting interest ;)

Oh, for all who care. I’ve been to both Nagasaki and Hiroshima and I can tell you, it all sucks. I wouldn’t wish an overdose of hospital x-rays let alone a nuke on anyone. And the large format pics at Hiroshima, wow. Oh and the “shadows” burned into stone at ground zero, eerie.

Enough said. Nice work on the tool.

Oh did I mention the authorities are coming, hehe.

By: Yvonne Adams

Yvonne Adams — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:43:00 +0000

I’m tempted to forward this on to people I know who actually do these types of calculations for a living, but I fear you wouldn’t want to hear from them. :-)

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:23:23 +0000

Thanks Eric, works great — and adding the yield was a clever addition.