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nooneman


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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21942383 - 07/14/15 02:58 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Dismantle it. Sell the unimportant parts for scrap. Maybe bury the core somewhere deep in the northern Canadian tundra.
I would like to point out the usefulness of such a device for altering terrain and for mining. Nuclear weapons were considered as tools for both of these uses before we found out about the whole radioactivity problem.
Edited by nooneman (07/14/15 02:58 PM)
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myc_check1212
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Salomon]
#21942389 - 07/14/15 02:58 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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The sick irony of this situation is that its extremely difficult to build, man, maintain and run a nuclear reactor for energy than it is to build the fissionable material into a bomb.
The Manhattan Project was years behind Nazi Germany in development of the nuclear weapon, but closed the gap and developed in record time. On the flip side it took Admiral Rickover somewhere around ten years to safely develop the nuclear powerered submarine/aircraft carrier/power plant. That's why to this day the U.S. Navy is the premier authority on all things nuclear. The only American nuclear plant meltdowns were part negligence for SOP/untrained workers.
Anyone know how long you could run a nuclear reactor on one bombs material? Fun fact, most of the worlds nuclear reactors are running off former Soviet and U.S. weapon material IAW Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaties?
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: nooneman]
#21942394 - 07/14/15 03:00 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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The danger of nuclear radiation and poisoning was known long before Fat Man and Little Boy.
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nooneman


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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: myc_check1212]
#21942405 - 07/14/15 03:03 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I didn't say anything about either of those weapons. I said that nuclear weapons were considered as tools for terrain alteration and mining before we knew about fallout and radiation poisoning.
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Mad_Larkin

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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21942479 - 07/14/15 03:23 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Asante said: 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.
yo thats a dank ass fireball yaw
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21942704 - 07/14/15 04:22 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would make a time machine and give myself the bomb again.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: lowbrow]
#21943000 - 07/14/15 05:17 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I liked the fornication bunker that thing sounds awesome. I would idea'lly like to ask what the whales would do.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante] 2
#21943005 - 07/14/15 05:18 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Blow up whoever the fuck is still mailing you mxe
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: ModestMouse]
#21943062 - 07/14/15 05:33 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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ModestMouse said: Blow up whoever the fuck is still mailing you mxe

True evil!
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: SunnyD]
#21943072 - 07/14/15 05:36 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would point it at an asteroid,and let it fly!!!
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Asante
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: ModestMouse]
#21945015 - 07/15/15 02:09 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
ModestMouse said: Blow up whoever the fuck is still mailing you mxe

Nobody is?
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21945782 - 07/15/15 04:19 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Strap it to myself with a dead-switch, stride into the Euro parlement and make some demands on behalf of everybody that gets screwed over by this cult of neo liberals.
And while I'm at it, you can smoke in bars again all across the EU! Fuck off with that American "Oh but my health!" shit!
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Turtletotem]
#21945789 - 07/15/15 04:24 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fuck yeah
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Beanhead]
#21945804 - 07/15/15 04:40 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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set it off like a fire work
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Asante
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Konyap]
#21946131 - 07/15/15 07:18 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Illyabo said: set it off like a fire work
Its hard to not accidentally kill someone with a thing that vaporizes everything in a five mile radius and turns windows into a lethal rain of projectiles in a 20 mile radius.
They are BIG. A megaton bomb is a "city buster"they would drop on major cities in the cold war.
The Terminator 2 bomb gives a good idea of the magnitude.
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Edited by Asante (07/15/15 07:23 AM)
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21946170 - 07/15/15 07:38 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I would destroy the worlds largest mxe factory.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
#21946192 - 07/15/15 07:46 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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LuSiD enthusiast said: I would destroy the worlds largest mxe factory.
Hirohito typa niggas up in this piece!
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21946516 - 07/15/15 09:22 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Stash it, act like nothing happened..
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Asante
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
#21947127 - 07/15/15 12:27 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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LuSiD enthusiast said: I would destroy the worlds largest mxe factory.
If you drop a 1 megaton bomb from orbit on the worlds largest MXE factory and it doesnt go off, the kinetic energy alone would destroy it.
Multikilo labs are the size of kitchens.
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Re: You have a One Megaton bomb! What do you do? [Re: Asante]
#21947172 - 07/15/15 12:39 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I cant really think of any use for that bomb.
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