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Date:
5/30/2018 9:13:30 AM
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RE: time to cash in on your stupidity
Fallout is set in a world about 200 years after major nuclear exchange. Setting aside man-made anomalies like super mutants and deathclaws, it posits an ecology in which almost no plants grow and almost no animals are unaffected by extreme mutations. Somehow, in 200 years' time, every cow has two heads. The smallest insect is the size of a basketball and has developed completely new defensive tactics. Even some humans have morphed into tame and feral "ghouls" whose main characteristic is extreme longevity.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities with grass and trees, nice restaurants, baseball stadiums, and other things that shouldn't be there if you follow Fallout's logic. Somehow, people managed to find brooms and clean things up. I'm not aware of any two-headed cows or glowing green dogs running around, but I could be mistaken.
Chernobyl is still irradiated, but about 700 people live in the Zone of Alienation, mostly working on the containment structure around the plant or operating businesses that support the project. The area is overgrown with vegetation and full of animals with the normal number of heads. Wolves love it there and appear to be quite healthy. The biggest problem, apart from increased cancer levels in humans, seems to be that some fruit trees are smaller than they should be and don't produce as much as they should. Meanwhile, tourists regularly visit the Exclusion Zone (for short periods) without becoming ghouls or encountering mosquitoes the size of washing machines. Eventually, more people will get brooms and do what humans do, which is tidy the place up and rebuild. I imagine that in another 150 years, all piles of rubbish will be swept out of houses and people won't be trying to eat Sugar Bombs cereal made in 1986.
