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Fallout fan and Instructables user Rabdiga wanted to build a musical instrument that could be easily assembled during the end of days. His idea? A charming pan pipe made out of used bullet casings: More »
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Everybody loves battle armor — it's stylish and allows you to kill more people without ruining your stylish evening wear. And the next best thing to wearing armor is drooling over concept art of armor. Here's some of our favorites. More »
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It's been 25 years since Chernobyl fallout contaminated flora and fauna in Europe, but German hunting officials are still dealing with rising numbers of radioactive wild boars. But why? More »
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Peter Bagge, the creator of seminal 90s satire comic Hate, may see his Dark Horse Comics miniseries Apocalypse Nerd go to the BBC. The story follows two friends who go camping one weekend and return to Armageddon. Here's the trailer. More »
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A group of over 200 Russian role players enacted their own Fallout-style video game, offering a taste of how the nuclear apocalypse might look. Check out the gallery of their gameplay, complete with military encampments, radiation suits, and atomic zombies. More »
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It's nearly dusk as you approach the abandoned supermarket, crouching behind a burned out hover-bus. You nearly make a mad dash to the entrance, dreaming of the food and medical supplies you might find inside. Then you notice the mutilated corpse chained up above the door. Raiders! Cautiously, you watch the parking lot...there they are. Heavily armed, too. You'll be able to loot the store if you want to, but there will be blood. In the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 3, nothing comes easy. More »
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From the Cold War vantage point of the early 1960s, the immediate future appeared to be one of impending nuclear annihilation. The savvy homeowner built a bomb shelter for family safety, but how to know when to come out after the big one fell? You couldn't see, feel, hear, taste or smell radiation. That's where a home fallout meter came in handy. Luckily, Popular Science was there to help the consumer understand how they worked and which one to buy. More »
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Fallout 3 comes out later this year. Like the first two games, it's all about surviving in a post-nuclear world full of mutants, radiation, and other bad stuff that wants to kill you. In the concept artwork above, you can see how mankind has adapted to what's left of the world by building a makeshift bridge to a drydocked and marooned aircraft carrier, which appears to be one of the few sources of manmade light (or fire.) This melancholy image could have done double duty as concept art for that Life After People special on the History Channel. More »
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