Id love to see wepons like planet sun and maybe if you whana end you play universe destroyers idk im am a guy who whants to see the world burning im a game of course
There could be a laser that drills into and heats up the core until it explodes (like the Planet Killer from Solar Smash)
Or a massive antimatter or exotic matter (could be either, not sure if it matters honestly) missile that eviscerates a planet, leaving it apparently permanently uninhabitable, like the Planet Buster from Spore.
It could be where if you are too aggressive and attack many planets or your own ones become upset nuclear war could wipe out everyone possibly showing a secret message âthe only winning move was not to play, so you playedâ
I donât get it
Itâs a reference to this scene in the movie âwar gamesâ:
Specifically the line at 3 minutes 35 seconds in, where after calculating all possible outcomes of a nuclear war gone M.A.D, the computer states âA strange game. The only winning move is to not play. How about a nice a game of chess?â.
I thought this line was well-known, atleast for people aware of MAD and/or DEFCON.
This video has three (semi)realistic crazy super weapons
I calculated the amount of force a rod from god (dimensions i used are 1 ft diameter and 1 km long) would generate, in newtons, if it was made of pure osmium(making it weigh in at 1,639,509 kg)from just falling down to earth until it reached terminal velocity(assuming itâs spinning fast enough to stay completely straight the whole way down), and it came out to 35,644,869,622.375 kilonewtons, which would take the energy produced by letting 3637231594119.9 kilograms fall in a vacuum at 9.8 m/sÂČ for one second to stop.
Dividing Earthâs mass (in kg) by that weight gives this number 51573180081041 + 85669964306189â121241053137330.
I donât know what that means, but since Earthâs approximate weight in kg is 5,974,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, the number of digits that removes means a lot of stuff dies very quickly the moment it hits a rock at the speeds(24.74km/s) it stops accelerating at. And you could probably turn a small moon into dust with that.
The amount of funny numbers in this made me start wondering what the magic dimensions and densities to get all of the numbers to be funny numbers are.
This has to be the most unholy combination of units.
Yeah, I wasnât the one who decided on those dimensions though. That was my father.
Wouldnât a rod this long need to be foldable to be taken into space?
You donâttake it to space, itâs one million kilograms, two if you round rather than truncating.
You build it in space.
A tungsten one might be able to be taken to space, and a lithium one definitely could, but an osmium one does much more damage, and can carry more force, though it needs much more energy to be prevented from breaking because it decided to bend or rotate.
Why would we need weapons of that kind?
Well, you might want to re-enact the meteor that killed the dinos, or you might want to use like, ten, to ignite a dead planetâs core! Itâs a much easier option than nuking the planetâs core if you know how to get a geosynchronous orbit and know where to get the osmium.
Did some quick calculations with the newtons, converted them to jules assuming a displacement of one kilometer because Newtonian stuff, just assuming it goes that deep because itâs denser than rock (it might not do this at all, tell me if Iâm stupid and take it with a grain of salt) I got 35644869.622 terajoules. This is only for impact, ignoring all atmospheric heating, and assuming a lot of idealized stuff. Thatâs 8.5 megatons of tnt equivalent, about a six or seventh of the Tsar Bomba (50-58). This suggests that dropping sticks might be a bit silly if you have a large supply of rare elements likes osmium and uranium, however, it does assume landing at terminal velocity, and uhh, thatâs not necessarily the quickest you can hit. Even if the terminal velocity for a ridiculously heavy object thatâs a foot thin is so high that even deorbiting from a retrograde orbit gives it time to slow to that speed before landing, the act of slowing generated a lot of extra heat transfer, and such a thin object doesnât tend to cause as much atmospheric heating or slowing. Edit: I might have shifted a digit right or left on accident, Iâll check in my PC if I did it stupid but checking on my phone is just as likely to add error than remove it because the keyboard is stupid, and i cant use PC rn because of a blackout, but itll be over this afternoon.
so basically a nuke but no boom boom
Basically a nuke with no boom boom which travels at the speed of light and is kind of unstoppableâŠ
Also, a very similar idea can be seen in the video: âHow to Win an Interstellar Warâ by Kurzgesagt â In a Nutshell on Youtube. I could add that this channel may be really good and useful for Thrive what if ideas, since it has many videos about several scientific fields, economy, mathematics, philosophy, etc and explores many hypothetical scenarios.
to me a super weapon concept i would wanna see are things that are Insidious, like something that slowly removed atmosphere from planets but donât seem to do anything at first
I feel removing atmosphere might still be a bit over the top, what about like horror movie stuff? Slowly removing the ability of people to cooperate and teach one another technology with a prion that precisely erases memories of/related to itself? Hell, if you can erase memories and donât mind a bit of ineffectiveness for the sake of awesome, make a dozen false hydras and drop them in random towns, at least one per continent, and see one happens.
my idea is over the top but yours isnât? LMAO