Lemuria to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 11 months agoWhat other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?message-square28fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down12
arrow-up169arrow-down1message-squareWhat other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?Lemuria to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 11 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareEcho Dotlinkfedilink5•11 months agoThis seems like a rather self-defeating weapon really. How was that weapon supposed to work? “Stay back or we will irradiate our own forces”. It’s not much of a threat is it.
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mlcakelinkfedilink3•edit-211 months ago“Do you want this territory? Because we can give you this territory…”
minus-square@macarthur_park@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•11 months agoThe yield is small enough that it isn’t a threat to the soldiers launching it. Still, I wouldn’t want to be the one tasked with firing it.
This seems like a rather self-defeating weapon really.
How was that weapon supposed to work? “Stay back or we will irradiate our own forces”. It’s not much of a threat is it.
“Do you want this territory? Because we can give you this territory…”
The yield is small enough that it isn’t a threat to the soldiers launching it. Still, I wouldn’t want to be the one tasked with firing it.