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[Rockeater]

What the area a nuke can effectevly destroy?

[IcyTea31]

What the area a nuke can effectevly destroy?

Depends on the weapon. Most nuclear weapons are designed to destroy medium-large cities, but the biggest, theoretical ones could destroy entire small nations.

I think the biggest problem with nuking the coins, however, is that it's not unlikely for even one coin to survive the heat and pressure. Or worse, be thrown a long distance away to spread the silvery death to other places. If that happens, you've just killed countless innocents for no gain.

[NRDL]

New hypothetical, an oldie but goodie. You find a clone of yourself standing in front of you, all your memories, essentially you.

Do you fight, or $#%@?

[Egan_BW]

like really why would I fight

[Whisperling]

Agree not to do the whole "kill the other and take their place" thing, work together instead. There are now two of me to throw at any given problem.

[Rockeater]

Probably nither.

[Grim Portent]

Probably sit down together and talk about the interesting ramifications of there being two of us and how we'll diverge from that point onwards. Probably try to figure out a way to accomodate the clone in my life. Might make property division awkward until we get things properly arranged, and I'd need to make a second hobby space for it somewhere.

Wouldn't fight because really what would be the point, wouldn't bang because I don't possess the traits I find sexually attractive.

Getting it registered as it's own legal entity might be difficult but would be important.

[FallacyofUrist]

Have a long, long talk. Both of us think we're the original. Things would probably get awkward within my family. Having both of us attend my college classes would be...

Well, it would be weird. I'd need another bed.

Once I get it all worked out, though, best friends forever.

[Egan_BW]

Whatever I decide to do DIRECTLY after the cloning, my clone will do the same because we're both almost exactly the same person at that moment and we're both in the same situation. Therefore I pretty much have the prisoner's dilemma where I know that whatever I decide to do in advance, we'll both do. So the only reasonable option is mutual gain.

[ChairmanPoo]

Probably sit down together and talk about the interesting ramifications of there being two of us and how we'll diverge from that point onwards.

yeah but two people in a room with identical ideas who sit around confirming each other's opinions and beliefs is basically a circle jerk anyway, so why not go all out?

[TamerVirus]

[AzyWng]

Agree not to do the whole "kill the other and take their place" thing, work together instead. There are now two of me to throw at any given problem.

I've seen this quandary enough times to decide that killing the other is just a bad move, period.

This means both of us would agree on this point (and probably every other, as stated earlier).

So yeah, this. I'd do this.

[Dunamisdeos]

Apparently the clone knows it's a clone, so if I was a clone I'd probably just move somewhere else and have a go at life.

[Hanslanda]

Hey now I only have to work part time. We just split our life in half for maximum laziness time.

[Egan_BW]

Hey now I only have to work part time. We just split our life in half for maximum laziness time.

You still need to feed both yourselves. You might get away with sharing a room and bed because you're literally the same and thus have no need for privacy, but some costs will certainly go up.