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Old Posted Oct 4, 2012, 10:02 AM
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The Great Canadian "Where would you hide if Skynet happened?" thread.

It's been on my mind for awhile lol, so far, Winnipegs underground concourse and Polo Park is what I was thinking. Calgary would be the half-finished LRT tunnel, Edmonton would be the whole Downtown LRT system (and the University). How about other cities? Toronto and Montreal would be a little obvious with their subways...
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Because I have a boat....Sable Island. That or somewhere up in Labrador.
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Would it even target St. John's?

If it did, I'd hide in the Fluvarium
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There's an old fallout shelter in the decommissioned military base at Debert (NS). It was designed to hold all the Maritime muckedy-mucks in the case that armageddon ever happened. I would head there. It's only 75 minutes from Moncton.

Seriously though, there would be no place to hide. Skynet is everywhere!!
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Old Posted Oct 4, 2012, 2:47 PM
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It's been on my mind for awhile lol, so far, Winnipegs underground concourse and Polo Park is what I was thinking. Calgary would be the half-finished LRT tunnel, Edmonton would be the whole Downtown LRT system (and the University). How about other cities? Toronto and Montreal would be a little obvious with their subways...
If you're talking Skynet and an actual full-on nuclear strike...

None of these underground systems would survive. Portage and Main is ground zero for a nuke, as is the central part of any large city's downtown.

I'd flee into the Rockies, or if I was further east, NW Ontario. Living would be extremely hard, especially in the Canadian winter, ESPECIALLY if we see much of a "nuclear winter" effect (jury is out on just how bad this would be).

Long story short, if you're in a major population centre during a full scale nuclear war, you're dead. Period.

Or you'd wish you were.
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Pulling the plug off the world's power grid, no electricity....good luck skynet!! Cyberspace would not last long with not a single grain of power to run a server of some sort!

Or if I'm too far from the plug, somewhere along a power plant, cause if skynet would blow them up, it would be like committing suicide and i'm pretty sure it knows better.

Or if i'm too far, I know a place or two who still has their old 50's era bomb shelter not too far from here...
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^ But the machines use humans to produce power! Oh wait, different movie.

I would be heading north to Inuvik. I think the killbot:human ratio would be more survivable.
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Why is the word "IF" in the title of this thread?

What do you think Cloud Computing is? It's called that for a reason... Think about it... Clouds are in the Sky. You use the Net to access the Cloud... SKYNET!!!!

ACK!!!!! It's happening all around you!!!!!!

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Would it even target St. John's?

If it did, I'd hide in the Fluvarium
Just leaves St. Johns to its own thing while destroying the human race.

"Nah, they aren't a threat!"

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Old Posted Oct 4, 2012, 5:12 PM
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If you're talking Skynet and an actual full-on nuclear strike...

None of these underground systems would survive. Portage and Main is ground zero for a nuke, as is the central part of any large city's downtown.

I'd flee into the Rockies, or if I was further east, NW Ontario. Living would be extremely hard, especially in the Canadian winter, ESPECIALLY if we see much of a "nuclear winter" effect (jury is out on just how bad this would be).

Long story short, if you're in a major population centre during a full scale nuclear war, you're dead. Period.

Or you'd wish you were.
Wouldn't the air base be first hit, since its more strategically important? Also, both Downtowns (Winnipeg and Calgary) would be good places to hide, with Calgarys massive LRT tunnel stub, and Winnipegs ridiculously large amount of Downtown basements with tunnels and stuff.

And I know. Doing the calculations on my house with some web simulator, seems even in the range of a Hiroshima bomb on Portage and Main, my 1918 wooden house wouldn't last a SECOND.

Northern Manitoba wouldn't be a bad place to hide. Although it has minerals for Skynet, it's mostly a dead area with next to no people
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Why is everyone running and hiding? Stand up and fight, skynet doesn't scare me bring it on.
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Interesting...

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The French government has forgotten they exist, I doubt skynet would care either. All while I get to enjoy french pastries and cheap beer.
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Why is everyone running and hiding? Stand up and fight, skynet doesn't scare me bring it on.
Thats why I made this thread! Wanted to see who'd go where and where we could fight! I'd probably be roaming the basements of Polo Park in this case. The bowling alley and numerous store rooms will have food to last, and barely anyone outside of Winnipeg SSP (or born after 1991) knows about that one hahaha


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Interesting...

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The French government has forgotten they exist, I doubt skynet would care either. All while I get to enjoy french pastries and cheap beer.
I love how even in the case of a post-nuclear machine nightmare, the Atlantic provinces and islands aren't even touched
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Old Posted Oct 4, 2012, 6:21 PM
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Skynet won't forget us. It'll just take a half hour longer.

The world will end at 12:00. That's 12:30 in Newfoundland.

Actual folk song, I s*** you not:

Half an hour later on an island in the sea,
She may be late, but she's still great, she means the world to me;
When God designed creation, and drew up His master plan,
He spent half an hour more creating Newfoundland

Somebody just predicted that Judgement Day is here,
This very day at midnight the earth will disappear;
My wife looked at me lovingly, she said now ain't that grand,
We still got half hour left 'cause we're in Newfoundland
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Somewhere away from civilization if I had time to get there.

If not, I wouldn't go into transit tunnels. Frankly, lift stations and sewer vaults would protect you far more.
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Never heard of skynet...
I googled Skynet and I got multiple references: A european game was the first, a UK satelite and the Terminator.
What exactly are you refering to?

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As far north as I can get, Îles de la Madeleine would be a good bet.
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Wouldn't the air base be first hit, since its more strategically important?
Depends on what the goal is. The original premise of the Skynet attack was that it basically took over 1980s Soviet nukes to take us out. This was in the days when a city like Winnipeg quite probably had 2 or 3 nukes dedicated to it (there were 10s of thousands available, after all). They most certainly had at least one nuke headed directly towards the centre of every major metropolitan city in North America. As well as military targets.

In a more thought out Skynet scenario - the machines would want to kill as many of us as possible. It would be even MORE likely that they'd just target the human population. Quite possibly in preference to military targets. What use is an air base when your AI is distributed amongst millions of computers around the world? Who do you attack with your planes?


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Also, both Downtowns (Winnipeg and Calgary) would be good places to hide, with Calgarys massive LRT tunnel stub, and Winnipegs ridiculously large amount of Downtown basements with tunnels and stuff.

And I know. Doing the calculations on my house with some web simulator, seems even in the range of a Hiroshima bomb on Portage and Main, my 1918 wooden house wouldn't last a SECOND.
Run the sims against a shallowly underground, non-reinforced tunnel - using a 1-10+ megaton bomb. The P&M concourse would at the very least collapse from the impact, but quite likely you'd have a pretty decent crater there as well. Even if by some miracle Trizec etc had built these to bomb-proof standards... they're not very deep, and more importantly they're not airtight. You might survive a few hours (if the firestorm doesn't asphyxiate you first), and then die of massive radiation poisoning.

"Bomb shelters" are mostly likely only useful as fallout shelters. And one at Ground Zero would almost certainly not do squat for you. Now, if the missile went off course and took out Charleswood... then yeah, they're a start
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I'd go to Edmonton, the machines would think it was already destroyed and move on
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