(March 20, 2011 at 5:09 am)Ubermensch Wrote:(March 20, 2011 at 2:57 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Because it is so hard to carpet bomb/haze an area? It's really not. It's discriminate killing that is hard to manage. The more effective the weapons: the easier it is to exterminate the pests. Get rid of as many as you can before they evolve a tolerance to your favorite brand of pesticide.
Even back in WWII when carpet bombing was thing all the cool countries were doing even with thousand bomber raids and the levelling of entire cities there was never any chance of the populations of any of the countries involved having their populations wiped out. Most airforces these days do not have one thousand bombers.
Didn't they drop potatoes back then?
If you're going to bomb something: use modern day bombs. Potatoes don't explode. Unless you put them in a microwave. Nukes tend to work well enough. Also, try an assorted variety of bombs (gas/chem/bio/whatever). If you'd like to throw a single potato into each batch, be my guest. I seriously doubt anyone is going to be left to eat its ashes.
Honestly, there isn't much point in carpet bombing a city if you can't kill off the vast majority of the populace. I suspect whatever carpet bombing there was in WWII would have at least met with some success (else why would they continue to do it?).
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
