The BIGGEST Mistake of Fallout 76 EXPLAINED! | The SCIENCE of... Fallout 76

Dear Bethesda, I figured it out. Your

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. Biggest fail, with Fallout Seventy Sex... Seventy Sex, oh my god... *bleep* your

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fail with Fallout 76. Was it the nylon garbage bags that-*SLEEP* I'm still laughing at Fallout Seventy Sex ? *laughs* Your biggest fail with Fallout 76... was the nylon garbage bags that you claimed would be canvas when you charge people $200 for the collector's edition, or was it when you thought only 500 Adams, your custom currency of the game, it was roughly equivalent to $5 (which was barely enough to buy anything in their e-store) they would somehow smooth this out, or maybe it was sometime when you accidentally tricked a bunch of your own customers, or maybe Was it all the weird stuff like including the Brotherhood of Steel in your game even though they weren't supposed to be in the area for several decades yet, or the constant server crashes, the game crashes lost two saved t-poses, what?

Big discounts after a month (week) of launch? ! None of these things, ALL of them pale in comparison to the biggest, baddest, most DEPRESSING bug in the entire game... the trees, get it? for all the *stumbles over words* Alright, let me explain. This is a question people have been asking me since they SAW the trailers for the game, Austin Why are all the trees green? Heck, even Matt himself asked me about this! This is kind of the opposite of the question Why are all the trees dead in Fallout 4 when it's been 200 years since the bombs fell? Because Fallout 76 takes place only 25 years after the Great War and I've been doing the math. this and things... are NOT good, you could even say they are...

Wait, it's... Youtube is nearby. Anyone... watch youtube... Anywhere. Ok, I think I think we're good. OK. Alright. *throat clear* you could even say they are GOD DA- -FYING! Alright, first, let's go over a little more history and lay the groundwork for our examination of this topic. On October 23, 2077 in the Fallout universe, a major nuclear war broke out across the world known as the Great War. I've covered this several times here and there and everywhere Because the Fallout franchise is to me what Five Nights at Freddy's is to Matpat... someday... I'll catch up ANYWAY. things called Vaults that were made to protect people from the impending nuclear holocaust and a lot of them SUCK, but if you want to know about that, you'll have to watch like... some other video besides this one because it's about one. one of the few vaults that was not designed to be a terrible, sadistic and cartoonishly evil human torture device and everyone who entered it in 2077 left when the vault was opened 25 years later in the abandoned wastelands of West Virginia according to the manual of Fallout 1.

The bombs used primarily during the war had a yield of between 200 and 750 kilotons, several times more powerful than the bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But overall they are not the worst we have tested on this planet, they were mainly used for two. The first is that they are cheaper than larger bombs and the second is that they generate more localized radioactive

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. The radioactive dust and payload aerosols that are dispersed when a nuclear weapon explodes, now to the trees. Radioactivity is really, REALLY bad for all organisms, PERIOD. However, the argument is that most of the

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should have been dispersed 200 years after the war, but only 25?!

Is that possible? Well, actually... Yes. You can think of areas like Chernobyl or even Fukushima where nuclear power plant disasters called meltdowns occur, which is basically when the controlled fission used to generate energy goes uncontrolled and runaway chain reactions literally caused If uranium or plutonium were to melt through their containment units and cause steam explosions, aerosolized radioactive materials everywhere, Chernobyl will remain uninhabitable for hundreds of years, IF NOT LONGER, and Fukushima cleanup is underway. moving forward, but still... not great. But the thing is, nuclear power plants are fundamentally different from nuclear bombs. They take advantage of the same nuclear physics, of course, but by design, nuclear power plants burn their energy slowly, while bombs burn it very quickly, plus bombs have far fewer radioactive components than a power plant, so they generally there is less pollution. when they explode now nuclear power plants are not maintained due to the collapse of society and therefore melting down is a possibility of contamination but I checked all the power plants and consequences 76 and none of them are hot at all , meaning there were no mergers here.

This is not very surprising between now and 2018. Modern nuclear power plants are designed in such a way that fusions are practically impossible, and I imagine that in a much more nuclearized society and with more time to perfect things, this technology would be much more advanced. On top of that, if you look around the entire map, you will find no explosion damage or craters, which means that on this entire map of 29.7 square kilometers, a distance I calculated by going to Morgantown High School and running along length of the basketball court, which would be a regulation high school court at 84 feet or 25.6 meters, calculating my running speed at eleven, eight, three feet or three, six meters per second and using this to determine the length, they are markers that you can place in the third game. point five feet or a little over a meter and then using it to measure the map pixels, I... uhhhh...

I forgot where I was going with this, but the square area will matter later. I promise. Oh right, not a single bomb was dropped in this entire region, all the damage is due to random explosions from Raiders fighting looting, and the general abandonment of infrastructure seems a little extreme for 25 years of inactivity when no There's no one alive, but whatever, it turns out that Trees Being Lush and Green actually makes a lot of sense, right? Bad because we forget to talk about one thing, one of the most important things on the entire planet Earth. Water. Anyone who has been to the nuclear wasteland knows that water is one of the most dangerous substances in the game.

And in Fall, in 76, a game where you have a health and thirst meter that needs to be tended to, you also know you have no choice but to interact with it, just swimming in these things gives you a whopping TEN rads per second . Now, one minute of time in the game actually lasts three seconds in the real world. So this isn't as bad as it sounds, but in that case you're still getting a huge dose of half a rad per second, even though it doesn't seem like it. Like many things, you should keep in mind that it only takes about 1000 rads and about five minutes of in-game exposure to drop dead, meaning the rads and consequences are very similar in lethality to real-life rads. , where doses between 600 and 3,000 rads can kill you in minutes.

Rads measure the radiation absorbed. So technically they don't want to say how much radiation is in the air, but the amount of radiation that actually hits you comes in three main forms: alpha beta and gamma alpha radiation. Created by alpha decay, it is what is created when a heavy, unstable atom falls apart. and loses a single helium core at a very high speed. This radiation is the least dangerous type because it cannot penetrate very far as it is stopped by clothing and paper and even your own skin, in theory alpha radiation can cause a lot of damage if it is in large quantities in the form of radiation burns?

But you generally have to eat or breathe alpha radiation into your body for it to cause real damage. Beta particles are similar but their electrons are a little more penetrating. And yes, I hear you laughing in the back of the class. But if you like penetration, like deep penetration into your organs, nothing beats gamma rays, which are photons, the same particles that make up visible light, but now at a really high energy level. It is really rare that there is only one form of radiation: the ejection of helium atoms through alpha decay frequently ejects electrons because the nucleus is no longer strong enough to hold them, and gamma rays because there is excess energy to remove. .

They go hand in hand. Now, these forms of radiation are dangerous because they can upset the atoms in your cells, completely changing how they function, sometimes to the point of causing something as slow-acting as cancer or directly causing enough damage to enough cells to cause organ failure. Imagine that radiation hits. your brain, for example, which could kill you in no time. Gamma rays, meanwhile, essentially cook you alive from the inside out... FUN!! For radiation to be present there must be unstable atoms near and after a nuclear bomb. It's very clear where they come from. So there must be radioactive particles in the water.

And these radioactive particles are probably plutonium. *stumbles over words again* Why, why would I say that? Well, it's because the radioactive half-lives of fission bombs are not 100% efficient. Therefore, there is often nuclear material left over from the initial payload, and while many nuclear byproducts are created when they explode, most of them have really short half-lives of a handful of minutes or really long ones like millions of years. ; For example, uranium-235 has a half-life of 700 and 3.8 million years, which means that. Yes, it will be around for a long time, but it also means it takes a ton for it to be dangerous.

Meanwhile, plutonium-239 has a half-life of just 24,000 110 years, right in the sweet spot where it will win. It doesn't break down right away, but it can still break down at a regular enough rate to cause some damage. Now, the radiations you experienced from swimming in water have to come from gamma rays so they can kill you as quickly if they were alpha rays, the water itself would probably deflect it and absorb everything before it even touched your skin. Beta rays may eventually reach you, but they only give you a mild sunburn. Meanwhile, gamma rays travel much further in water.

Now, since rads depend on mass, we will have to calculate how much energy you are absorbing in order to calculate how many plutonium-239 atoms are floating in the water. An average human being weighing 75 kilograms and absorbing 1000 rads or 10 grays is equivalent to 750 joules or two point four. six nine five joules per second or fifteen point four trillion megaelectron volts per second, which adds up to a total of four point six eight quadrillion megaelectron volts to kill you. Which means that in the five points, oh six, in game minutes, it takes you To die, three hundred and sixty billion atoms of plutonium-239 must decay, as each atom releases 13 megavolts of gamma ray energy per division, but The situation is made worse because that is only the number of atoms that split at any given time, not how many there should be. there because the atomic half-life is an average of the probability that atoms will split in a given period of time, so we must divide those 360 ​​billion atoms by 300 3.7 to get How many atoms split in one second ? 1.1 8 trillion multiply by 31 million five hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred and twenty 6.08 the exact number of seconds in a year to calculate how many atoms split in a year multiply that by twenty-four thousand one hundred and ten years to get the exact number of atoms that they are divided within the year half-life in which half of the atoms that are good for a fission have bubbled, then we multiply it by two and finally we will know how many atoms surround the character at a given time, 1.8 septillions of plutonium atoms -239 that weigh just under three. grams, but we're not done yet because water attenuates the signals.

And we need to know the total amount of particles suspended in the water. Not just what happens near you, which means that for every seven centimeters away we have to take into account the energy is reduced by half, which means in short that atoms that are seven centimeters away have to be twice as common as those right against your skin to be so powerful. We eliminate this by taking the average height, depth and width of a human measuring seven centimeters of that by calculating the volume by multiplying the 1.8 trillion atoms that need to fission by 1.5 to get an average and dividing by the volume to get an average density of plutonium per cubic meter of water one point four one three four five times ten to twenty-five power atoms per cubic meter of water or 23 grams of this substance per cubic meter is not a small amount, a small koi pond would have about one pound of plutonium, but no problem.

You say I just won't drink the water or swim. I will drink clear rainwater Refreshing rainwater to which I say if there were no pumps, pull from the area where it comes fromthe crap where all this comes from That's what rain is like Remember when I told you that the area of ​​the map would be important later if I highlighted all the bodies of water and measured their area and gave them an average depth of 1.5 meters. That means there are over 1.1 billion liters of stagnant natural water in this area, which means that at the start of the game there are over 26,000 kilograms or over 55,000 pounds of plutonium. dissolved throughout the map, which means an average of 1040 kilograms of plutonium per year.

West Virginia has an average of 0.99 meters of rain per year, which means that 29 billion liters of water rain here per year or more than 735 billion liters in 25 years to deposit so much plutonium. That means that the rain itself has to have a density of points zero zero three. Oh, six seven seven four six one four two micrograms per cubic meter of plutonium in it. That means you can only drink seventy-five million seven hundred. and eighty-eight thousand five hundred and thirty-nine drops of rainwater before falling dead sound like a lot until we consider that they are only six hundred and fifty-seven liters.

Who among you drinks the recommended two liters per day means that you lose them in less than a year So yes, it turns out that these trees may, for some reason, be green now, but they will not be green in ten years and Vault-Tec and by extension, Bethesda totally screwed you over by leaving you out of the fall just 25 years after the bombs dropped while the rain continues to fall and continues to deposit more plutonium. These lakes will eventually become critical, they won't explode, but they will go from giving you five points. rads per second at over 1000, these trees will die soon And if your character manages to survive somehow, his children definitely won't unless you do a lot of radaway I like it a lot because you're screwed, otherwise no one in this valley will live anymore More than 50 years and soon it will be like the shining sea and it turns out that Fallout 4 Even if an area was not directly bombed, it can still be totally destroyed by nuclear weapons launched elsewhere.

In fact, for my calculations, if the pumps were of similar efficiency. 15% to the fat man. It had taken no less than 200 eleven bombs of surplus plutonium to irradiate an area so intensely. So, you know, it's funny that West Virginia is in such a terrible state even though no bombs are dropped there, it means the rest of the United States must be much, MUCH worse, like just TERRIBLE, you know, have fun with that honestly. Austin subtitles credited to Fire Dream. Thanks for watching!