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Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Why Did We Test Nukes in Space?" video.
Everyone alive today is contaminated by the nuclear testing that has occurred in the past. Scientists even use the contamination to date things now. It is called the bomb carbon effect.
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@lordgarion514 she blinded me with science!
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Next time it is for real. So have your go pro ready.
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Who wants a bunch of blind savages running around? We'd have gotten stuck with the tab of taking care of them.
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@fcgHenden imagine dragons? But I am a dragon.
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Worse things could happen. And have happened.
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@almondpotato9483 risk what? The Cold War was all about brinksmanship. That was all it ever was. We postured and they postured. Nuclear testing was posturing on a grand scale. Look at us blow this stuff up in the middle of nowhere. It was total posturing.
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As safe as any other way one might launch an atomic device. Probably safer in fact. Balloons have a better safety track record than missiles do.
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@fcgHenden having a bad ash day, are you?
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Why did we test nukes in space? Because we could test nukes in space!
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10 is too many for that liberal platform.
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Why another Cold War? I think the USA should just conquer Russia to prove our military dominance to the whole world once and for all. I mean think about it. To do what both Napoleon and Hitler failed to do would have to put it in the bag, wouldn't it? Everything else we've done so far has failed to impress. But conquering Russia would be epic. Of course the mainstream media would still say Trump was colluding somehow even while we were shelling the Kremlin. So yeah what's the point?
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@Games_and_Music that would be bad. If they're smart they'd sit by and do nothing. This is the 42 fish boomer sub fleet. Each vessel has more explosive potential than was released in every war in the 20th century, and will blow life clear off the surface of this planet. You've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well do you punk?
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What do you mean back then? You think it's all gone away already? Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.17 years so that means it's only about half gone away by now.
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@gast128 Bound? Be careful with that in the #metoo era.
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It is almost the same principal as wireless charging really. Just on a much bigger scale.
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Mars lost its atmosphere because it did not have the mass to generate enough gravity to retain it. We don't have that problem on this planet.
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It is a good idea to do some practical testing now and again. Computer modeling only gets you so far. We need to verify our methods.
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@SiriusAundB it'd better not. But if it does I can guarantee you those complications won't last for long.
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Why couldn't we test them on Earth? We could and did. But you can't get the same effects on the ground as you can get in space. So we needed to explore the full potential of the weapons.
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Wasted? Would you rather we settled our differences the old fashioned way? Pay less attention to ridiculous conspiracy theories and more on real history for a change. The tech was not stolen. The Rosenbergs gave it to them. For that we stuffed their traitorous Semite commie asses into gas chambers. Nazi air force? Nothing of the sort ever existed.
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There's a rumor that doomsday devices already exist in the form of cobalt jacketed thermonuclear bombs. Which if detonated in the atmosphere would poison the planet to all life on it. It would not take a very large bomb to do that either. I imagine a few megatons should do the trick.
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Nothing has saved more lives than nuclear armaments. It ended warfare between rival superpowers. Which used to regularly destroy whole generations of the population. But you wouldn't know about any of that, now would you? Go back to your sheltered existence already.
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Most have the wrong idea of what a nuclear exchange would be like. Modern doctrine is based on the findings of these high altitude tests. There won't be any mushroom clouds. Only bright flashes high in the sky. That will still be enough to end the world as you know it now though.
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Better tests than the real deal. People may forget someday just what they're dealing with and make errors in judgement as a result.
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Ions in the atmosphere help shield us.
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We may need to conduct further tests to answer those queries.
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