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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6021578" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Well, check it out - nobody really discusses those shows at all on this site. So, my comment isn't neither her nor there, it is directly germain: *if* it gets discussed at all, it gets nitpicked.</p><p></p><p>So, ultimately, the observation isn't that the other shows don't get nitpicked, but that we don't talk about them at all. Why are we discussing the other shows, but not Castle?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, consider that we are only 15 years out from the blackout. The number of people who know how to work metal *without electrically driven tools* is small. The weapons they make first will be as simple as possible - and that means swords and muskets. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Depends what you are talking about.</p><p></p><p>A typical "atomic bomb" is a fission device - a conventional high explosive is used to drive masses of fissionable materials (like U-235) together hard enough to keep them together long enough for the critical mass to generate a chain reaction and explode. </p><p></p><p>Most atomic bombs use high explosives triggered by electricity - you'd have to replace those explosives (probably with dynamite), and all but the most basic designs will then fail, because they take the speeds of the high explosives as a given in the design. You can't just replace a hunk of C4 with a same-sized stick of dynamite and expect it to work. You'd need someone with the wherewithal to redesign the bomb - no small task under the circumstances. </p><p></p><p>A "nuke" is a thermonuclear device, and that uses an atomic bomb to kick off a fusion reaction.</p><p></p><p>While in theory, you can set off a nuke without electricity, in practice it will be a dud, because the tolerances for getting the fusion reaction to go off are very small - the various shaped charges of high explosives have to be set off within small fractions of a second from each other, and you won't get that using a burning fuse cord.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There is that, yes. A variation of the Anthropic Principle applies. We see the results we see not because the show runners went from first principles and build up the society, but because they chose a genre, and the society is build down from there.</p><p></p><p>Mind you, most of the arrangement we've seen is not implausible - if you take it that the state of metalworking isn't very good, then the weapons we see falls out of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6021578, member: 177"] Well, check it out - nobody really discusses those shows at all on this site. So, my comment isn't neither her nor there, it is directly germain: *if* it gets discussed at all, it gets nitpicked. So, ultimately, the observation isn't that the other shows don't get nitpicked, but that we don't talk about them at all. Why are we discussing the other shows, but not Castle? Well, consider that we are only 15 years out from the blackout. The number of people who know how to work metal *without electrically driven tools* is small. The weapons they make first will be as simple as possible - and that means swords and muskets. Depends what you are talking about. A typical "atomic bomb" is a fission device - a conventional high explosive is used to drive masses of fissionable materials (like U-235) together hard enough to keep them together long enough for the critical mass to generate a chain reaction and explode. Most atomic bombs use high explosives triggered by electricity - you'd have to replace those explosives (probably with dynamite), and all but the most basic designs will then fail, because they take the speeds of the high explosives as a given in the design. You can't just replace a hunk of C4 with a same-sized stick of dynamite and expect it to work. You'd need someone with the wherewithal to redesign the bomb - no small task under the circumstances. A "nuke" is a thermonuclear device, and that uses an atomic bomb to kick off a fusion reaction. While in theory, you can set off a nuke without electricity, in practice it will be a dud, because the tolerances for getting the fusion reaction to go off are very small - the various shaped charges of high explosives have to be set off within small fractions of a second from each other, and you won't get that using a burning fuse cord. There is that, yes. A variation of the Anthropic Principle applies. We see the results we see not because the show runners went from first principles and build up the society, but because they chose a genre, and the society is build down from there. Mind you, most of the arrangement we've seen is not implausible - if you take it that the state of metalworking isn't very good, then the weapons we see falls out of that. [/QUOTE]
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