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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 23, 2019 at 1:10 pm
(February 23, 2019 at 10:59 am)Yonadav Wrote: (February 23, 2019 at 10:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Quite frankly, the prospect of biological war worries me more than a nuclear exchange.
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I have no respect for that sentence whatsoever. It became a very popular buzz thing to say by dumb people who thought that it sounded intelligent. Being more concerned about biological war than nuclear war is sort of like being more concerned with science fiction than real things. The nuclear bombs actually exist and are proliferating. Biological weapons? Meh. The effective weaponization of them continues to be problematic. And the idea that they could be worse than a nuclear exchange is pretty silly. It's great science fiction to imagine that a weaponized virus can simply be used to infect a few people and then spreads to wipe everyone out. But that's not how diseases work. Sure, as our genetic engineering gets better and better, we might be able to make biological weapons that do formidable things. But we are not really there yet.
In the mean time, nukes are real. Nukes can destroy all life on earth. And trying to sound intelligent by saying that we are more concerned about biological weapons just makes us sound like the dumbest little posers imaginable.
Could you possibly disagree without resorting to insult? Might make for a more productive discussion.
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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 23, 2019 at 2:14 pm
(February 23, 2019 at 1:10 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (February 23, 2019 at 10:59 am)Yonadav Wrote: I have no respect for that sentence whatsoever. It became a very popular buzz thing to say by dumb people who thought that it sounded intelligent. Being more concerned about biological war than nuclear war is sort of like being more concerned with science fiction than real things. The nuclear bombs actually exist and are proliferating. Biological weapons? Meh. The effective weaponization of them continues to be problematic. And the idea that they could be worse than a nuclear exchange is pretty silly. It's great science fiction to imagine that a weaponized virus can simply be used to infect a few people and then spreads to wipe everyone out. But that's not how diseases work. Sure, as our genetic engineering gets better and better, we might be able to make biological weapons that do formidable things. But we are not really there yet.
In the mean time, nukes are real. Nukes can destroy all life on earth. And trying to sound intelligent by saying that we are more concerned about biological weapons just makes us sound like the dumbest little posers imaginable.
Could you possibly disagree without resorting to insult? Might make for a more productive discussion.
Boru
I'm feeling sort of cranky today. I could have worded that with a little less nasty, I guess.
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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 23, 2019 at 4:57 pm
(February 23, 2019 at 2:14 pm)Yonadav Wrote: (February 23, 2019 at 1:10 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Could you possibly disagree without resorting to insult? Might make for a more productive discussion.
Boru
I'm feeling sort of cranky today. I could have worded that with a little less nasty, I guess.
I agree, but I'm not guessing.
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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 24, 2019 at 11:56 am
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(February 23, 2019 at 7:52 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (February 22, 2019 at 10:12 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: The age of deterrence is over, it's the era of crazy fucks leading a herd of other crazy fucks.
If half of them had a consciousness, nukes would've got defused and labeled as a "forbidden weapon". But it's a world of crazy fucks with no consciousness, dignity or even an inch of brain.
And how does that explain the bat-shit I quoted?
What is funny about my version of reality?
Trump's victory in the elections of 2016 was a mark of a new era. Where is the weird version in my post?
(February 23, 2019 at 10:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Quite frankly, the prospect of biological war worries me more than a nuclear exchange.
Boru
Atomic bombs are capable of both versions of damage: the traditional destructive one and the biological one due to radiations.
This scary article talks about it:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...120353.htm
If I wanted to damage a nation and also spread sickness in its ranks; I would use an atomic bomb. The biological damage of these dirty bombs is irreversible and takes very long to go. It's literally a "curse".
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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 24, 2019 at 12:10 pm
Quote:What is funny about my version of reality?
Trump's victory in the elections of 2016 was a mark of a new era. Where is the weird version in my post?
Oh, I wasn't trying to engage you, that's pissing into the wind.
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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 24, 2019 at 2:10 pm
(February 24, 2019 at 11:56 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: (February 23, 2019 at 7:52 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: And how does that explain the bat-shit I quoted?
What is funny about my version of reality?
Trump's victory in the elections of 2016 was a mark of a new era. Where is the weird version in my post?
(February 23, 2019 at 10:43 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Quite frankly, the prospect of biological war worries me more than a nuclear exchange.
Boru
Atomic bombs are capable of both versions of damage: the traditional destructive one and the biological one due to radiations.
This scary article talks about it:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...120353.htm
If I wanted to damage a nation and also spread sickness in its ranks; I would use an atomic bomb. The biological damage of these dirty bombs is irreversible and takes very long to go. It's literally a "curse".
Your spelled "error" wrong.
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RE: Nukes: post your imagined scenario of the next war
February 24, 2019 at 4:28 pm
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(February 24, 2019 at 12:10 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Quote:What is funny about my version of reality?
Trump's victory in the elections of 2016 was a mark of a new era. Where is the weird version in my post?
Oh, I wasn't trying to engage you, that's pissing into the wind.
Gotta be the T-Rex in your avatar making me assuming the wrong assumption.
I'm saying it only "started to get worse" 2 or 3 years ago to escape the accusations of me being paranoid.
But to be really accurate; it started since the colonization age. The goal was always world dominance; and it ended in humans inventing nukes at to glorify the centuries they spent massacring each other
(February 24, 2019 at 2:10 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Your spelled "error" wrong.
Complicate a device and fill it with "pathways"; and you got yourself a very possible error scenario.
If the tiniest thing didn't work like it should or did a wrong function, you can assume apocalypse 2 minutes later
Any Computer OS can prove that. How do humans feel safe with missile systems and nuclear subs filling their countries is one thing I'll never understand
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