This is basically how the city of Richland, Washington came into its present form. During the Manhattan Project the federal government took over the town and some adjacent villages, evicting about 300 people, and built it into a bedroom community that eventually housed about 25,000 people for the nearby Hanford site.

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A rough day just got worse for the ladder guys.

To build on the good answers from superkret and nemo…

The survival Rule of 3’s says that, depending on your situation, you can generally survive:

• three weeks without food.
• three days without drinkable water.
• three hours in a harsh environment (extreme heat or cold).
• three minutes without breathable air, or in icy water.

Finding a way to stay warm and dry at night should probably be your primary concern. Hypothermia kills fast.

If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, Captain, it’s safe to surf this beach!

We should really open a shelter for sad cases like this. Little tankos like that deserve love and attention like any of us. Maybe we could have some land out back where volunteers could play with them once in a while to keep their spirits up and their barrels warm, especially during the cold seasons.

The solution is ray cats, I tell ya. If the kitty’s glowin’ you better be goin’.

The 99% Invisible podcast did an interesting episode on this topic, too.

I remember downloading some “postcardware” back in the 90’s. The author requested that you send them an interesting postcard if you liked the software.

Satabam sounds like a metal band with some Latin jazz flair. I would totally go to their show.

Your first point is technically correct, but 24-hour days and 7-day weeks are a de facto global standard at this point in history. There are outliers, like the Javanese 5-day week or the experimental 5-day Soviet calendar, but they are few and far between.