Lemuria@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 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-squaremessage-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@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 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-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 months ago“Do you want this territory? Because we can give you this territory…”
minus-squaremacarthur_park@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 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.