Night at the Museum of Technology: Jiggs' Loot & The Virgo II Lunar Lander – Fallout 3 Lore fallout 3 technology museum

I've always wondered about the lack of vehicles in fallout. Sure, a lot would be damaged or destroyed by the EMP from the bombs, but there had to have been plenty of technically skilled people still alive. Certainly enough to build steam engines. Which is enough to be able to create basic generators, batteries, etc. I mean, gas we can safely assume has been consumed, but there's still plenty of combustible materials around. Etc. Etc.
I suppose we can justify this because too many people survived, and humans became their own worst enemy to rebuilding civilization.

Hm.. Interesting to see that none of the realworld space pioneers apparently existed. No Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin, likely also no Yuri Gagarin…

I always felt like the Virgo 2 exhibit is a reference to the conspiracy theory that the Apollo lunar landings were fake, and the presence of the Virgo 2 in the museum is a subtle hint they actually were fake in the Fallout universe.

2021 and still no Delta IX rocket

"What happened to respect for the dead?" While looting every dead body.

The mod your using that adds the drum mag to the Xuanlong Assault Rifle… I hate it. That just looks so stupid.

The Virgo II lander is based of the moon lander on the N1 Soviet moon rocket

Why in God's name would you not simply deactivate the weapons on display by removing the firing pins, fusing the bolt assembly, welding the barrel, or any other of the 100 ways there are to deactivate a weapon? Why would you waste thousands on security when you can remove a firing pin in 30 seconds on most weapons without a single tool? Pre war museum workers are mentally crippled.

The terminal entry for Oppenheimers' folly, mentions how you'll wish you could just "duck & cover" to avoid it all. That was the phrase used in all the old PSA videos (IRL) of the 50s for what to do in the event of a nuclear emergency, if you were caught outside of a bomb shelter. It was shown at schools & had a turtle as mascot. I thought that was an interesting tidbit they included. 😂

"When was the last time you went to a museum" – Oxhorn before 2020

Me: sees 2020
Also me: ahhh… optimistic people from this year

don't do this area if you are playing tale of two wastelands and have headphones on. the planatarium doesn't shut up until you leave the museum and it's extremely loud.

They need to know what you left in order to properly charge you.

I think maybe the Fallout lunar missions were more different than we thought, I think since they only did two Virgo landings, they must’ve stayed on the moon for much longer, and possibly brought the lunar lander back with them rather than doing a later launch to bring it home.

25:26 This Rocket remind me somehow on the Updated Version of the German V-2

Perhaps the R91 is the civilian variant of the M199? Similar to the AR-15 being the civilian variant of the M4/M16 family. Maybe after the divergence the fallout USA pulled back many of the restrictive gun laws from the 1930s, allowing citizens to own firearms capable of automatic fire. Or maybe the R91 was the National Guard’s internal designation of the M199, I always assumed the National Guard in the fallout world used the Combat Rifle and Assault Rifle from Fallout 4 rather than the R91 but maybe we need to take another look at this bit of lore.

nice movie reference in the title. if you dont know what im talking about the movie is called "night at the museum".

wasn't there a mention of a steam powered vehicles in fallout 1