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Personally, I am not scared about nuclear apocalypse if I died, but if I somehow survived the aftermath is what I am scared of.
The lack of control is also something that holds fear at bay.
The lack of control is also something that holds fear at bay.
You guys know what missile shields and anti missile fighters are right. The fact that Europe, and the US have the ablitiy to shoot down a nuclear warhead while its still in the 'rouge state'. Personally it won't come to that. World leaders know what nukes do, there not tactical. All they do is kill a massive civilian population. Also if they use theirs, others will use their own, so its mutual destruction. So a nuke is just there to say 'If you shoot me I'll shoot at you back'. Its just a fear weapon with no intention of being used.
^ It's a hypothetical question. It doesn't need to be completely fool proof, only be able to be debated.
No, I try not to think about it. There are so many things that can go wrong in the world or with people that you love and care about. If you spend so much time dwelling on those things, it will surely depress you. The only thing we can do is hope and pray those things never happen.
Here Labyrinth, something for you to think about: The time the Russians almost nuked us. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/closecall/
Not to make you more paranoid about it, but there's just nothing we can do about it - unless you get into a job field that is going to get you in a place of power where you CAN do something about it.
I wish I could watch your video but our work computers block youtube.
Here Labyrinth, something for you to think about: The time the Russians almost nuked us. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/closecall/
Not to make you more paranoid about it, but there's just nothing we can do about it - unless you get into a job field that is going to get you in a place of power where you CAN do something about it.
I wish I could watch your video but our work computers block youtube.
I have to admit I'm far more scared of being attacked by a clown than nuclear war. I figure that's going to happen sometime in the next 50 years anyway. Hopefully I'll dead before then, but who knows?
On a side point raised, I though the current accepted model of child protection was to cover them in bubblewrap and tell them all that "there speshal"?
[Edit: I put this back in because I got told off the last time I edited out my drunken ramblings.]
The first thing I thought when I saw the topic was "Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the pope and nice red uniforms oh damn!". My closest mate is right. My brain is nothing but a cable tv channel full of old junk. Sigh.
On a side point raised, I though the current accepted model of child protection was to cover them in bubblewrap and tell them all that "there speshal"?
[Edit: I put this back in because I got told off the last time I edited out my drunken ramblings.]
The first thing I thought when I saw the topic was "Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the pope and nice red uniforms oh damn!". My closest mate is right. My brain is nothing but a cable tv channel full of old junk. Sigh.
Yes, enough that the UN will be very angry and send the culprit a letter saying just how angry they are.ThePlasmatizer post=18.74435.833743 said:
If a meteor were to fly towards the Earth, the naked eye could only see it about one second before it hit. Yellowstone National Park is 65km across, and is one gigantic volcano. If the material erupted from Krakatoa was the size of a golf ball, the erupted material from the third-most-recent Yellowstone eruption would be a sphere of diameter 6ft.
The world might end at any second, so I just sit back, relax and hope it doesn't come to it. I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.
The world might end at any second, so I just sit back, relax and hope it doesn't come to it. I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.
No point really, but I am curious why we need any more nukes right now, the states has the ability to destroy the world many times over with that much firepower. Surely that's enough for them? the next time a nuke is used outside testing, we're pretty much dead as a species. Don't fret.
If it were up to me I'd have all nuclear weapons destroyed so that a nuclear war could never take place. But it's not up to me, and because of the paranoia and the sheer stupidity of today's world leaders, there will probably be one at some point in the future. I personally hope it happens when I'm in my sixties, seeing as getting any older than that seems to me like torture (People in my family have never aged well) and I'd love to live to see the end of the world.
I mean, how awesome would it be to witness the end of everything...pretty awesome if you ask me. I'd prefer that to dying in my sleep or something boring of the sort.
I mean, how awesome would it be to witness the end of everything...pretty awesome if you ask me. I'd prefer that to dying in my sleep or something boring of the sort.
The Bomb is such a devastating weapon that it will never be used, as the fear of retaliation is even bigger. No man (not even the fanatical muslims/christians/communists/scientologists, before someone tries to claim otherwise) will ever unleash nuclear war. Using a destructive weapon is one thing, using one of the destructive qualities of a nuclear bomb is another.
That's what kept the Cold War from escalating afteral. Maintaining peace because either side could (and would, in case one would unleash it) destroy the other.
Humans are too obsessed with staying alive, I suppose.
That's what kept the Cold War from escalating afteral. Maintaining peace because either side could (and would, in case one would unleash it) destroy the other.
Humans are too obsessed with staying alive, I suppose.
Yea, but what tactical about dropping a bomb on an area to decimate it? 'There is a platoon of enemy troops here! Instead of using clean projectiles lets use a massive bomb what will level the area and make it uninhabitable for a year or two! Thats tactical!!'Richard Groovy Pants post=18.74435.834011 said:
*Promoted to 4 star general pops up on right side of screen*
Any apocalyptic situation is scary, be it nuclear war, zombie attack, meteor strike, return of Christ, alien invasion, collider based black hole, disease, huge atomic lizard, return of Cthulu or even the Iron Ninja creating an army of cybernetic armour plated laser-toting chef-hat wearing Apocalypse Crabs. With Spatulas to scrape away the mess.
As scary as it is, I realised there was only two outcomes. I survive, or I don't. There's no point worrying about it, if it happens, I'll probably know in a few seconds which outcome I'll get.
As scary as it is, I realised there was only two outcomes. I survive, or I don't. There's no point worrying about it, if it happens, I'll probably know in a few seconds which outcome I'll get.