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07-28-2019, 02:32 PM | #232 |
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Re: So What IS ruined after an Apocalypse?
Next most common is arsenic in groundwater: 137 million people are affected, in seventy countries.
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07-28-2019, 05:00 PM | #233 | |
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1)137 million people is just a hair over 0.2% of the global population. Compared to the number of people who risk disease vectors in their water, this is miniscule, and basically irrelevant except in particular extremely localised regions. 2)Those regions are generally near certain mining or industrial sites; i.e. the contamination is human-caused, and exception already noted above 3)Except in the most extreme cases, arsenic in the groundwater causes things like somewhat elevated cancer rates, which is bad but not something that's going to be of huge concern to post-apocalyptic communities, not like dysentery. |
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07-28-2019, 08:17 PM | #234 | |
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07-29-2019, 10:52 AM | #237 | |
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I think this a problem in most games with TL ratings. Even the GURPS 4e additions like TL 4+1 or something don't really provide a good definition of knowledge vs infrastructure. In Traveller for instance you have a star spanning empire with fusion engines, reactionless thrusters, and FTL drives but individual worlds with like a TL 5 rating. That world's industry might be limited to TL 5 in general but if there's contact with Travellers/Imperium they know about higher TL stuff. |
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07-29-2019, 05:42 PM | #238 | |
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07-30-2019, 10:18 AM | #239 |
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Re: So What IS ruined after an Apocalypse?
Here's a series that might give some insight on the difficulty in reviving dead electronics:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...lisi_x7-Ut_-w7 If the link doesn't work, just search YouTube for "CuriousMarc AGC." |
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