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re: will there ever be a weapon that is more powerful than nuclear weapons?
Posted on 11/22/16 at 10:13 am to jaTigerfan
Posted on 11/22/16 at 10:13 am to jaTigerfan
Antimatter is the first thing I thought of. I don't know if anybody watches What On Earth but a man made weaponized giant tsunami could wipe out an entire coast
Posted on 11/22/16 at 10:32 am to EyeTwentyNole
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but a man made weaponized giant tsunami could wipe out an entire coast
That's along the conspiratorial lines of HAARP...
Posted on 11/22/16 at 10:44 am to Jackie Chan
What weapons do y'all believe already exist in secret which are more destructive than nuclear weapons (bio weapons excluded)?
Posted on 11/22/16 at 10:48 am to RedPants
Has anyone said their dick yet?
Posted on 11/22/16 at 10:48 am to mizzoukills
Didn't Reagan want to drop a Tungsten Pole from low orbit that creates catastrophic damage?
Posted on 11/22/16 at 10:51 am to Wedge
Posted on 11/22/16 at 10:55 am to LSUaFOOL
Kinetic bombardment would be feasible and would be much worse than nuclear explosions.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 11:08 am to mizzoukills
There will be something significantly more powerful once we find a way to truly convert atomic mass to pure "damage-causing" energy. Even in nuclear explosions most of the energy released is from the release of the "binding energy" that holds atoms together; very very very little actual mass (protons, neutrons, electrons - and their constituent particles) is actually converted to energy (think E=mc2). Roughly half of the energy produced goes towards the process of the explosion.
Furthermore, roughly half of the energy that is ultimately released becomes neutrinos, which do absolutely dick - they don't interact with matter, not really anyway.
Thus, our current incantation of nuclear bombs could only harness a theoretical max of roughly 1/4th of the atom's potential energy. The real world is much much less.. IIRC Fat Man and Little Boy converted little more that a penny's worth of material to energy accounting for only a fraction of a percent of the "nuclear mass."
But.... once we figure out how to take an electron, proton, or neutron and convert it to pure "destructive" energy, that will be one hell of a explosion.
Furthermore, roughly half of the energy that is ultimately released becomes neutrinos, which do absolutely dick - they don't interact with matter, not really anyway.
Thus, our current incantation of nuclear bombs could only harness a theoretical max of roughly 1/4th of the atom's potential energy. The real world is much much less.. IIRC Fat Man and Little Boy converted little more that a penny's worth of material to energy accounting for only a fraction of a percent of the "nuclear mass."
But.... once we figure out how to take an electron, proton, or neutron and convert it to pure "destructive" energy, that will be one hell of a explosion.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 11:35 am to The Mick
We already have EMP bombs, which could devastate a country given the reliance on electronics.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 11:47 am to The Mick
The Mick
enlighten us...
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Already exists.
enlighten us...
Posted on 11/22/16 at 11:50 am to The Ostrich
Time is a flat circle
no it isn't
also to the OP - Yes, but only if humans don't kill themselves off before figuring it out.
no it isn't
also to the OP - Yes, but only if humans don't kill themselves off before figuring it out.
This post was edited on 11/22/16 at 11:52 am
Posted on 11/22/16 at 11:54 am to Chucktown_Badger
I put EMP weapons in the "nuclear" category. Sure, an EMP attack would be horrific (estimated 80 percent of target zone would eventually die due to starvation), but we aren't the only country to possess this weapon.
We've already determined that kinetic bombardment is scarier. Probably why there are space treaties forbidding kinetic bombardment.
We've already determined that kinetic bombardment is scarier. Probably why there are space treaties forbidding kinetic bombardment.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 12:04 pm to mizzoukills
Large Hadron Collider gonna turn Earf into a black hole.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 12:07 pm to mizzoukills
The Contium Transfunctioner.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 12:11 pm to mizzoukills
Yeah it's called pussy. It's the most powerful weapon in the world.
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