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Dr. Benway posted:The granddaddy of insanely bad ideas has to go to Project Pluto. Imagine you're a russian farmer who just happens to live near a secret missile-silo. Suddenly a giant shockwave levels your house, your barn, your cows, everything. And it happens completely without warning since this thing moves several times faster than the speed of sound. Unbeknownst to you, it also irridates everything it flies over. So you're not going to be growing a lot of healthy crops in those fields of yours anymore. Provided you even survived the shockwave. And if you did, you now have 1-2 minutes to ponder what the hell happened before the nuke hits. Because this thing doesn't drop bombs. To buy itself some time for the getaway it fires them upwards in a parabolic arch. So there's a built in delay for considering your imminent doom. The reason this never got off the ground is AFAIK, that it was too insane for even the cold war nuclear arms-race. I don't know if there's some comfort to be found in that.
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ZeusCannon posted:I like to think that the guy proposes that and stands there in front of the Generals, the situation room fills with silence and then one brave soul says " Are you loving insane." . Not exactly. The airforce (I think) ordered that nuclear jet-engine as a way to keep their nuclear deterrent-bombers airborne for longer stretches of time without refueling. So they weren't entirely out of the loop.
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Count Freebasie posted:It was never completed, but the Nazi's Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte I just love that unique kind of stupid the nazis brought to weapon-design near the end of the war.
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