Alluminum soda cans?!

[Lord Tony]

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I came across this in the game. I haven't seen any physical versions of it. Doesn't this break the lore?

[Mithrals]

Does it? why?

[lpnlizard27]

How does trash break lore?

[Danceofmasks]

The reason nuka cola is still around, is because apparently pre-war, they overproduced so many bottles that it never ran out.
I'm assuming the other sodas just got consumed.

[ThePlagued]

my god..... soda cans... I knew it..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzHfPN2SC1I

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by Danceofmasks:

The reason nuka cola is still around, is because apparently pre-war, they overproduced so many bottles that it never ran out.
I'm assuming the other sodas just got consumed.

I thought about this a bit. According to Coca Cola (The Real Life equivalent of Nuka Cola) they produce 25 billion cases of the stuff in 08-09 or something. IIRC, one case is 24 bottles.
That's about 600 billion bottles.
Assuming that the Fallout US has around 200 000 inhabitants (Approximated population and people that don't drink nuka cola) means that there is 2,5 million bottles for each person alive.
That's a whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lot of nuka cola.

[Shunn3d Shadow]

I only remember seeing two empty aluminum cans on the shelves in some place. There just was no colors to them, and maybe I took it so fast I didn't see if it was actually what I thought it was. Of course I had to scrap those instantly, because otherwise I couldn't find the needed amount of alluminum, unless if I coughed up thousands of caps to it, vs steel, wood, glass, ceramic, plastic; all those always came up easily for me, just not aluminum. Point, I guess everyone else realizing how rare and expenssive aluminum is, scrapped all those cans, I mean 200 years. That's more than enough time for extinction. As for the lure, sure they are colorful cans, and just because they are aluminum don't mean they are cola, they could easily be some sort of beer of some sort, maybe fruit juice cans for that matter. In reality, real Coke is so overporduced, I have to send so many hundreds of that back like you would not believe because it don't sell, mostly the Diet version, which I never see Diet Nuke in Fallout 4, unless they were insinuating Quantum was supposed to, Cherry Nukes and other flavros I come across, unlike the previous games.

[Danceofmasks]

Originally posted by The_Pastmaster:

Originally posted by Danceofmasks:

The reason nuka cola is still around, is because apparently pre-war, they overproduced so many bottles that it never ran out.
I'm assuming the other sodas just got consumed.

I thought about this a bit. According to Coca Cola (The Real Life equivalent of Nuka Cola) they produce 25 billion cases of the stuff in 08-09 or something. IIRC, one case is 24 bottles.
That's about 600 billion bottles.
Assuming that the Fallout US has around 200 000 inhabitants (Approximated population and people that don't drink nuka cola) means that there is 2,5 million bottles for each person alive.
That's a whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lot of nuka cola.

Coke makes that many bottles for a population of over 300 million. For ONE YEAR.
Assuming 200,000 (which I doubt it'll be that high, at least for a long time after the war), that's enough soda for 1500 years.

Just sayin' ... not so outlandish.

(edit: just putting some perspective on your post, for people who don't immediately see the implication of big numbers)

[Sova6]

Are we seriously complaining that soda cans break lore? Never mind the fact that we don't actually know much about pre-war life but seriously? Soda can textures in trash piles break lore? Stop it.

[OH]

Originally posted by Sova6:

Are we seriously complaining that soda cans break lore?

I would agree with you except that soda cans didn't exsist in the pre-war, every liquid was in bottles, beer, milk, water. End of argument.

[David]

Originally posted by Sova6:

Are we seriously complaining that soda cans break lore? Never mind the fact that we don't actually know much about pre-war life but seriously? Soda can textures in trash piles break lore? Stop it.

Man, Lore is important! This is an immersive Bethesda RPG, haha. That said, if you don't care about lore, don't complain about lore, right? If he cares about the lore and the cans and stuff, more power to him, for asking about it! XD

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by Danceofmasks:

Originally posted by The_Pastmaster:

I thought about this a bit. According to Coca Cola (The Real Life equivalent of Nuka Cola) they produce 25 billion cases of the stuff in 08-09 or something. IIRC, one case is 24 bottles.
That's about 600 billion bottles.
Assuming that the Fallout US has around 200 000 inhabitants (Approximated population and people that don't drink nuka cola) means that there is 2,5 million bottles for each person alive.
That's a whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lot of nuka cola.

Coke makes that many bottles for a population of over 300 million. For ONE YEAR.
Assuming 200,000 (which I doubt it'll be that high, at least for a long time after the war), that's enough soda for 1500 years.

Just sayin' ... not so outlandish.

(edit: just putting some perspective on your post, for people who don't immediately see the implication of big numbers)

Yeah, thank you. :) I couldn't figure out how long it would last. I took 200K as a optimistic but conservative number. 200 000 of 300 000 000 is a 6% survival rate of a nuclear war. Which might be a tad high when I think about it but then again the US would not have been 100% carpet bombed by nukes. Geological feratures offering some areas some protection and things like that.

[jmido8]

So what do we know about soda cans pre-war though? I mean, did they even exist pre-war in this universe?

[The Konrad]

Isn't purified water canned now?
Wonder how my purifiers have their own filling and canning mechanism

[Sempophai]

They just look like shinier versions of the tin cans to me.

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by Konrad:

Isn't purified water canned now?
Wonder how my purifiers have their own filling and canning mechanism

Plastic bottles ins't it? And dirty water in old milk cartons.