Volcott posted:

If your mass driver has to travel through space to dunk on earthfags you've militarized space.

Rangpur posted:

Abyssal Squid posted:

There is literally no reason to put weapons on the Moon to attack Earth when you could put those same weapons on Earth and not 200,000 miles away.

Hardcordion posted:

It's a lot harder to stop someone wreaking armageddon if they're doing it from the Moon.

Who What Now posted:

Sure there is. There are weapons like Orbital Mass Drivers that fire multi-ton tungsten rods at the earth with the force of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs. That wouldn't work at all if it were on earth, it has to be up high to build up momentum. If it was on the ground it would just kinda fall over. Which I guess is dangerous to random dudes nearby.

Hardcordion posted:

It's a lot harder to stop someone wreaking armageddon if they're doing it from the Moon.

Abyssal Squid posted:

I mean this is a thread for being wrong in, but it's not a thread for being wrong about space you might want this one instead.

Rangpur posted:

Injecting straight into my veins, or at least my desktop background.

Paladinus posted:

Imagine four rocks on the edge of the Moon. Feminism works the same way.

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moon militarization chat

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The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology. If the explosive device detonated on the surface, not in a lunar crater, the flash of explosive light would have been faintly visible to people on earth with their naked eye, a show of force resulting in a possible boosting of domestic morale in the capabilities of the United States, a boost that was needed after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race and was also working on a similar project.
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A young Carl Sagan was part of the team responsible for predicting the effects of a nuclear explosion in vacuum and low gravity and in evaluating the scientific value of the project.

Volcott posted:

violating that one treaty.

Olive Garden tonight! posted:

Hey, why don't you not do this instead?

Volcott posted:

It's a common colloquialism in some other places I post, sorry if it bothered you. Meant no harm.

fritz posted:

Three worthless forms of North American paper.


Canadian literature. Mexican money. United States treaties.

Rangpur posted:

Realistically, we're much closer to Operation British anyway. Just tell Trump that Obama was too much of a wuss to do it, and Australia will be gone before you know it.







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Slime posted:

go back to those other places you post and please never come back

fritz posted:

Three worthless forms of North American paper.


Canadian literature. Mexican money. United States treaties.

Volcott posted:

It's a common colloquialism in some other places I post, sorry if it bothered you. Meant no harm.

Volcott posted:

It's a common colloquialism in some other places I post, sorry if it bothered you. Meant no harm.

Volcott posted:

Please don't bully.

Space Flower posted:

spit on my clit posted:

is volcott a Dangerous Individual

Volcott posted:

The Most Dangerous.

Ramos posted:

I mean... what?

Alacron posted:

1. Someone drew the Switch as a kind of derpy dog.
2. People want to gently caress the derpy dog.

I'm not even surprised anymore, this poo poo has become the new normal for the internet.

Lizard Wizard posted:

3. Nintendo put a bitter coating on Switch cartridges leading to grown adults licking video games to verify that they taste bad.

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Update (March 2): In a statement emailed to Polygon, a Nintendo representative confirmed the theory that Switch cartridges are coated in a material that’s meant to dissuade people from putting the units in their mouths.

“A bittering agent (Denatonium Benzoate) has also been applied to the game card,” the spokesperson said, adding that Nintendo recommends keeping Switch cartridges away from children “to avoid the possibility of accidental ingestion.” The representative also noted that denatonium benzoate is non-toxic.

So what is denatonium benzoate, anyway? We did some research.

Denatonium is the most bitter chemical compound known to humanity. It is widely used as an aversive agent, an additive that discourages ingestion by making a substance taste so bad that you’ll immediately want to spit it out.

Volcott posted:

The Most Dangerous.

The MSJ posted: