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Anonymous A started this discussion 3 weeks ago#135,417
You click on the photos of civilians that you want bombed by the army of a shithole country across the ocean. Need to pick at least four per check. It skips the middleman and gives users more agency.
Mr. Big Black Friday joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 2 hours later[^][v]#1,438,979
I wonder why living conditions in the poorest countries on Earth constantly getting bombed by the wealthiest country on Earth are so bad. I really can’t figure out why.
> I wonder why living conditions in the poorest countries on Earth constantly getting bombed by the wealthiest country on Earth are so bad. I really can’t figure out why.
I wonder if it accounts for the popularity of alien invasion films. The horror of being on the receiving end of air superiority and powerlessness.
Mr. Big Black Friday joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 5 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,439,051
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The most unrealistic part about those movies is that the humans win.
We wouldn’t win. You’d have to be crazy to think we’d win.
If you do the math on how fast the fastest man made object travels, you look up how far away the nearest star is, you divide the distance by the speed, and then, that’s the nearest star right? Look up how many stars there are in just our galaxy. Then thing about that for a minute, and imagine if another civilization is so advanced they wind up here. We’re not going to win. The difference in technology between the Europeans and the Native Americans when Columbus discovered America, that’s tiny compared to this. There’s no way in hell we’d win.
Mr. Big Black Friday double-posted this 2 weeks ago, 4 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,439,052
Like, oh my God, imagine, our species is 300,000 years old. 10,000 years ago, there were no civilizations. We’ve only been industrial for the past 200 years. Computers only date back to World War Two. Imagine a species that industrialized a million years ago. Like, nothing humans have done is going to seem impressive to a civilization like that. Imagine if you’re an alien and there are estimates that the Milky Way galaxy has at half a trillion stars, and you live in an empire, that has a million stars. A million is a tenth of a percent of a billion, there are at between 100 to 400 billion stars approximately. If that exists, we wouldn’t know about it. Imagine telling an alien from a civilization like that, America has 11 aircraft carriers. It’s gonna be like, "Yeah, and that ant hill over there has an army of 10,000 brave soldiers willing to fight to the death, so what?"
Mr. Big Black Friday triple-posted this 2 weeks ago, 7 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,439,053
Even nuclear weapons, a thermonuclear bomb doesn’t convert 100% of its mass into energy. Less than 1% is. We spend billions of dollars just to make individual atoms of anti matter. If aliens could make an antimatter bomb, it would be 100 times more powerful than a hydrogen bomb. Even using nukes is unrealistic. We wouldn’t win, there’s no way.
Mr. Big Black Friday joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 10 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,439,054
Even if hypothetically there was a civilization about as advanced as we are living around the closest star to us, the strength of radio waves decreases with distance so I kinda doubt we’d even realize it.