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What execution would you prefer?

Labor camp
- 4 (20%)
List of choices (would you like to be killed by woodchipper, firing squad, gascambers...)
- 8 (40%)
Choose how to die (with restrictions, or course, no "I want to be nuked in the dining hall")
- 6 (30%)
Generic Lethal injection
- 1 (5%)
Electroshock
- 0 (0%)
Life in prison
- 0 (0%)
Other (Specify)
- 1 (5%)
No opinion
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 20


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Author Topic: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion  (Read 344403 times)

Vorthon

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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2145 on: September 27, 2012, 08:10:12 pm »

Yah, but 'Groundy' is easier to type. 'Cause I'm a lazy bastard.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2146 on: September 27, 2012, 08:11:01 pm »

Then don't use the moon. Global extinction of all life is a bit hard to localize.
I don't care. I demanda  lunar-based bestruction method. How about a Massive Swilveling Laser? Is that better?

Yah, but 'Groundy' is easier to type. 'Cause I'm a lazy bastard.
Each to his own.
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« Reply #2147 on: September 27, 2012, 08:12:32 pm »

Then don't use the moon. Global extinction of all life is a bit hard to localize.
I don't care. I demanda  lunar-based bestruction method. How about a Massive Swilveling Laser? Is that better?

... So you basically want to turn the moon into the Death Star?

... I approve.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2148 on: September 27, 2012, 08:20:52 pm »

Then don't use the moon. Global extinction of all life is a bit hard to localize.
I don't care. I demanda  lunar-based bestruction method. How about a Massive Swilveling Laser? Is that better?
Planet-destroyingly big, or city-burningly big?
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2149 on: September 27, 2012, 08:22:21 pm »

Then don't use the moon. Global extinction of all life is a bit hard to localize.
I don't care. I demanda  lunar-based bestruction method. How about a Massive Swilveling Laser? Is that better?
Planet-destroyingly big, or city-burningly big?
City Burningly. Although, It might be wise to have a bunch of them.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2150 on: September 27, 2012, 08:25:49 pm »

It'll give the Engineering Corps something to do, that's for sure.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2151 on: September 27, 2012, 08:27:17 pm »

It'll give the Engineering Corps something to do, that's for sure.
Yeah, A bunch of them in strategic locations, and 1 big one. Why? I don't no. The one we use to destroy cities, theri suburbs, and everything within a 30 mile radius.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2152 on: September 28, 2012, 10:18:11 am »

I personally prefer bioweapons because they are awesome.
The con is, that unless you use very short-term bioweapons, its a bit hard to control the "blast" radius.
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« Reply #2153 on: September 28, 2012, 12:14:26 pm »

Then don't use the moon. Global extinction of all life is a bit hard to localize.
I don't care. I demanda  lunar-based bestruction method. How about a Massive Swilveling Laser? Is that better?

... So you basically want to turn the moon into the Death Star?


... I approve.

As I said earlier (has it really been that many posts?) We can do the same thing with asteroids, only smaller. As a test.
We only have one moon, but many asteroids.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2154 on: September 28, 2012, 03:48:54 pm »

Then don't use the moon. Global extinction of all life is a bit hard to localize.
I don't care. I demanda  lunar-based bestruction method. How about a Massive Swilveling Laser? Is that better?

... So you basically want to turn the moon into the Death Star?


... I approve.

As I said earlier (has it really been that many posts?) We can do the same thing with asteroids, only smaller. As a test.
We only have one moon, but many asteroids.
Most are far away, though. Unless we want to spend a fortune in energy or fuel, we'd want to use the ones near Earth.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2155 on: September 28, 2012, 03:50:26 pm »

Polish a suitably large crater into a giant mirror. Burn a wide trench across the Earth every day until they give up.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2156 on: September 28, 2012, 04:27:55 pm »

One problem with this is that humans are paranoid, esp if they're in a leadership of a nation.  So just by us Successfully colonizing Mars they would begin to worry and eventually ATTACK us before we even start lunar construction let alone create any super weapons.  So lets start thinking Defense instead of offense and by that I mean use our primary advantage verses Earth.

It takes us LESS fuel to leave Mars's Atmo than Earth's because we have less Gravity, thus it'd be easier to construct orbital stations than Earth would.

So build a Space based Ship yard and start to construct Starships, which are both Defense and Offense based (Capture/neutralize their satilite grids, orbital bombardments, etc)  Leave the Moon polishing for another Generation.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2157 on: September 28, 2012, 04:52:43 pm »

Also try colonizing the asteroid belt. And inform the UN of our plans to colonize Mars. Leave out the Earth-conquering bit, though.
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2158 on: September 28, 2012, 05:28:24 pm »

Or we tell them up front!
"HEY WERE TAKING THE MOON MARS ASTROID BELT AND EARTH! SURENDER NOW!"
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Re: The Bay12 Space program - Open discussion
« Reply #2159 on: September 28, 2012, 07:30:16 pm »

I say we should also go for the Jovian moons. The potential for Astrobiological research is too good to pass up.
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