What's the next thing after nuclear weapons?

[bAd a!m]

So, we kinda already understand how to make nukes and we have plenty.

When I say "we" I'm referring to the human knowledge. We can make many nukes and blow this planet.

But, what's gonna be the next type of weapon or discovery that we'll make?

What if we need to blow off a whole planet in outer space?

Or we get attacked by aliens from a parallel dimension?

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[salamander]

Originalmente postado por MinionJoe:

Originalmente postado por Ni-Neith:

What do you mean? mRNA is a vaccine against Covid..

Oh. Did you not know where the idea for using mRNA for vaccines came from?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7221137/

If you want to make a virus that turns all men sterile, this is the delivery method.

hey, wonder if--

yep, american.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adGQR9O734U

[Ni-Neith]

Originalmente postado por MinionJoe:

Originalmente postado por Ni-Neith:

What do you mean? mRNA is a vaccine against Covid..

Oh. Did you not know where the idea for using mRNA for vaccines came from?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7221137/

If you want to make a virus that turns all men sterile, this is the delivery method.

Interesting article.
Apparently this is a candidate for the next epidemics ;)

[Battlekruse]

Maybe something like a satellite-based particle beam weapon or a Anti-Matter Bomb.

[kaibarnard]

After we use nukes

....sticks and stones

[MinionJoe]

Originalmente postado por Ni-Neith:

Originalmente postado por MinionJoe:

Oh. Did you not know where the idea for using mRNA for vaccines came from?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7221137/

If you want to make a virus that turns all men sterile, this is the delivery method.

Interesting article.
Apparently this is a candidate for the next epidemics ;)

Well, it was published by the NIH.

Originalmente postado por salamander:

yep, american.

Yes, the NIH is an American institute. Fauci is/was a member.

[vkobe]

Originalmente postado por BlackBloodRum:

Originalmente postado por vkobe:

sorry, but virus can mutate, worst scenario is your virus infect animal and breed in animal to become new virus and infect your own people

also you going to infect other countries with your virus, so if a nuclear power know the virus is from your country and do black plague remake on its country, risk is great its drop its own virus against you or nuke your country

There are no winners in war. There will always be casualties to your own.

A nuke ensures you die immediately, a bioweapon gives you the opportunity to weaken your targets before they can even respond.

Ultimately, it's a risk countries will have to take when releasing them.

like geralt say with bioweapon in witcher 3

you cant control disease, your virus will infect people in other countries, think north korea use smallpox+plague against south korea and the virus spread into china and russia, you can be sure both country will annhilate north korea even if north korea target was only south korea

bioweapon is weapon you cant control and you only use if you are certain you going to lost everything, a nuke you can control it, if russia, china usa use tactical nuke on opponant army it doesnt mean it go into massive retaliation with nuking all cities, but the respond can be limited to tactical nuke against russian, chinese and american army in retaliation

[vkobe]

Originalmente postado por Battlekruse:

Maybe something like a satellite-based particle beam weapon or a Anti-Matter Bomb.

lack of energy for satellite and is easy to neutralize with ground laser or ground particule canon

[salamander]

Originalmente postado por MinionJoe:

Originalmente postado por Ni-Neith:

Interesting article.
Apparently this is a candidate for the next epidemics ;)

Well, it was published by the NIH. :spazwinky:

Originalmente postado por salamander:

yep, american.

Yes, the NIH is an American institute. Fauci is/was a member.

cute, but i meant you. good day, my american friend. make sure not to wear your tinfoil hat too tightly.

[MinionJoe]

Originalmente postado por salamander:

cute, but i meant you. good day, my american friend. make sure not to wear your tinfoil hat too tightly.

Right. Because mRNA is an entirely man-made biological mechanism.

Sorry though that that peer-reviewed paper discussing how natural viral processes are being used in pharmaceuticals was a bit too dense for the layperson to understand.

Let's try another one that's not quite so detailed:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/virus-messenger-rna

Not from the National Institute for Health though, unfortunately.

(You know what though, I might have been thinking of hepatitis B instead of herpes. I'm finding evidence that it's both, though hep B results are being overwhelmed with links about Moderna's new vaccine.)

[kingjames488]

either orbital kinetic impact weapons (aka "rods from god") or antimatter I imagine...

depends how long it takes to figure out how to weaponize antimater and how much countries respect the space weapons bans...

[permanent name]

bioweapons. could have an accidental release of a global weapon and people would write it off as psuedo-natural.

also cheaper to grow your parts than build them theoretically.

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

I'd say comically large drills but Rise of the Planet of the Ants sounds funnier.

[kingjames488]

drills? ^.-

[ZZZZZ]

just look up the list of forbidden weapons on the UN list, nukes are considered "low tech" since quite a long time

[kingjames488]

Originalmente postado por ZZZZZ:

just look up the list of forbidden weapons on the UN list, nukes are considered "low tech" since quite a long time

right? they stopped even bothering trying to suppress how to make nukes a long time ago >.>

you can look it up, it's actually theoretically pretty simple... happens to need a bunch of infrustructure and cetrifuges and such that they can just stuxnet.