[–] derram 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
https://archive.is/JRauG | https://vgy.me/GlMzKq.png :
The Soviets Made A Real Doomsday Device In The '80s And The Russians Still Have It Today
'The Soviets needed some way to be sure destruction could be assured mutually, which is where the Dead Hand doomsday device comes in. '
'To avoid a tragic mistake.”So, strangely, the doomsday device built by the Soviets may actually have been the best thing we could have hoped for. '
' As weird as it is to say, perhaps we should all be thankful for Russia’s doomsday device. '
'Just for fun, or, really, whatever the diametric opposite of ‘fun’ is, let’s go over what such a doomsday device is designed to do. '
'Strangelove:If you want a doomsday device to function as a way to frighten would-be attackers into not attacking you, they have to know the device exists. '
[–] CrustyBeaver52 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
The American doomsday devices are the nuke reactors with the fuel storage pools located above the reactor cores.
Like Fukushima.
It these reactors are not maintained by humans, they melt down and go critical - spreading radioactivity across the entire planet.
Like Fukushima.
There are many such reactors in the USA, and at several other locations around the planet.
If, in the case of an attack that wipes out the humans that work on these reactors, yet humans elsewhere on the planet somehow survive the attack, when these reactors melt down and go critical, there are enough of them to finish the job of exterminating all life on our planet.
They talk of Russian doomsday devices, but forget to mention we have already built our own.
What they have also failed to mention is that if these reactors cannot be maintained due to say a natural disaster, or large EMP from the sun, or really for any other reason at all - they will still go critical and eradicate all life on the planet.
In fact, the only way to prevent the final annihilation of life on this planet is to make sure someone is still here to keep the pumps running.
Hardcore enough for you?
[–] CrustyBeaver52 ago
There are some life forms - certain types of bacteria, for example, that do thrive in highly radioactive environments. We, however, will go the way of the dinosaurs, as will the vast majority of our ecosystem.
The Chernobyl leak was contained and eventually entombed - and even so was massively devastating - 100 plus unentombed reactors with giant nuclear fuel storage pools to feed ongoing radiation releases is of an entirely different magnitude, millions if not billions of times greater than Chernobyl or even the partially contained Fukushima. Very few life forms could survive exposure to that kind of radiation - so long as life is based on DNA, RNA and cellular building blocks.
I suspect they don't talk about this subject, because if people knew it was really like this, they might then move to have this dismantled, and well they should.
[–] TheRealDuchess ago
That shit is hella scary.