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You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do?
#21940775 - 07/14/15 06:38 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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A future you with a time machine does a dropoff and gives you a 1 megaton aneutronic fusion nuclear device:
The thing delivers 4.2 petajoules of heat in 10 microseconds but produces, other than a sudden intense flash of gamma radiation at the time of the explosion, no lasting radioactivity and no contaminated fallout of any kind.
At 80x the explosive yield of the hiroshima bomb it can do tremendous damage, such as destroy everything in a 10 mile radius and shatter al windows in a 20 mile radius.
Lets say you can take this object anywhere.
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THIS ENORMOUS RESPONSIBILITY?
A few viable options are:
-Store it for safe keeping -Set it off in a safe place -Set it off in a dangerous place (of choice) -Destroy it utterly so no one gets the technology. -Give/sell it to a "friendly" government. -Sell it to the highest bidder.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21940784 - 07/14/15 06:44 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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#21940795 - 07/14/15 06:52 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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E-Forest 2016
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Asante
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Burke Dennings]
#21940810 - 07/14/15 07:01 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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As much as I would want to see one go off in a safe place, I would utterly destroy it to keep it from falling in the wrong hands.
I would consider ANY government "the wrong hands". The world is not ready for radiation free Super Bombs.
I have literally wept reading eye witness accounts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That may NEVER happen again. NEVER EVER.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Burke Dennings]
#21940814 - 07/14/15 07:02 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Set a team of engineers with the task to come in and figure out how to turn the reaction into electricity and store the power.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: TheGreenArrow]
#21940851 - 07/14/15 07:21 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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its hard to say.
i'd probably strategically place it to reduce the global population by as much as possible.
humans are the most destructive force in the world.
but i might have a change of heart before detonation
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21940861 - 07/14/15 07:25 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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run away
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: rxb]
#21940868 - 07/14/15 07:26 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would sell it to Russia and move to South Africa.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: T-Funkadelic]
#21940877 - 07/14/15 07:29 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Blow up a planet / huge asteroid / a moon / ... in our solarsystem and extract the goodies.
Edited by Beanhead (07/14/15 07:30 AM)
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Beanhead] 8
#21940883 - 07/14/15 07:31 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I defuse it to save megaton and get a free house from Lucas Simms.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Psychonautica]
#21940899 - 07/14/15 07:35 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Bye France.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Toe_Jam]
#21940983 - 07/14/15 08:04 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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probably sell it. but can't be selling it without knowing what the target is.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: theonlysun81] 2
#21941158 - 07/14/15 08:53 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Drop it somewhere during the nuclear war between the US and China, at which point the survivors will find the unexploded bomb and build a town around it, some of them even going so far as to build a religion around it. At this point, i'd scurry back to my penthouse suite in tenpenny suites and set it off leaving one sole survivor.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21941159 - 07/14/15 08:53 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Shoot the moon with it to see what happens.
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#21941169 - 07/14/15 08:55 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Blow up Mecca
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: 404]
#21941171 - 07/14/15 08:56 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
404 said: Drop it somewhere during the nuclear war between the US and China, at which point the survivors will find the unexploded bomb and build a town around it, some of them even going so far as to build a religion around it. At this point, i'd scurry back to my penthouse suite in tenpenny suites and set it off leaving one sole survivor.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Arrtus]
#21941175 - 07/14/15 08:58 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'd do whatever the fuck I want to while walking around like a boss, and if even ONE scratch gets on me then the bomb would set off... so I could basically fuck any girl I'd like on the spot, cash out any amount from banks, etc. At 70 I'd just set it off in a safe spot while tripping and let it vaporize me.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante] 1
#21941305 - 07/14/15 09:41 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I defuse it. And get a free house!
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: SunnyD]
#21941331 - 07/14/15 09:46 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Herbologist]
#21941361 - 07/14/15 09:55 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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i would threaten the future me with suicide in order to force me to surrender the time machine to myself. then i would go around the universe having Dr. Who style adventures until i got bored, stole a 1 megaton aneutronic fusion device, and went back in time to offer it to myself in the past.
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