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more about #nuclear more comments → Dr Wadd: I`m going to have to side with some of my fellow commenters here and take some issue with the fact that this story is labelled up as having something ... more » CedricCaecus: The movie Stalker came out in 1979 and this article is about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. which makes the headline misleading. But I guess Fallout is a bit more wel... more » OgdenQualakon: @ ManchuCandidate, This is clearly S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and nothing at all to do with Fallout. The bolts (for detecting anomalies) give it away. This comes ... more » d_r_e: I'm slightly confused here, why does it say "Gamers Play Fallout__" in the headline, when this is clearly a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. cosplay deal? Stalker (or R... more » ManchuCandidate: They could have gone to Chernobyl and played Fallout for Real. more » RandomFrequentFlierDent: Oh those Russians. more » crashedpc - Haifisch: I don't see any hairless mutated dogs or invisible whirlwind traps. Hmph, all their efforts were for naught! more » -
#nuclearapocalypse
Gamers Play Fallout — In the Real World
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 » -
#retrofuturism
This Could Have Been Our Future
Imagine spending months locked in this Latvian bomb shelter. The banner reads "Without Communciations, There Is No Authority. Without Authority, There Is No Victory!" The shelter, now a museum, has a nuclear-blast-absorbing wall and a huge facility for filtering radiation. More » -
#nukepower
The Future Is Coming Up Nukes
Nuclear power is the other alternative energy - cleaner than biomass, and less retarded than ethanol. Sure there's that pesky problem of nuclear waste, but that's not stopping a union of European, Asian, and United States task forces from working on the next generation of nuclear power plants, that will look something like this on the inside (this is a Trigia research nuke power reactor, designed by Freeman Dyson). And here's the cool part. Many new, generation IV nuclear reactors will be virtually waste-free. Want to see some of the prototype generation IV nuke power plants? More » -
#conceptart
Aircraft Carrier Condominiums In A Post-Nuclear Junkyard
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 » -
#reallygiantmachines
Diving Into the Russian Nuclear Sub Wreck
The Kursk was a Russian nuclear cruise missile submarine that was lost under mysterious circumstances involving some explosions in 2000. Here it is a year later, dredged up from the waters by a Dutch crew. Want to see the insides? More » -
