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[Angellus]

This is why we need to develop inter-planetary missiles, so we can launch them at Mars and watch the fireworks. Also, space/high atmosphere detonations are fun, a nice blue/white orb with circular blue shock wave. Especially fun because it unleashes an EMP on the people below.

... You guys are idiots.

Mars is probably the most important planet in out system right now, save earth.

You understand it's all in jest right? I'd say around 50% of what I say is a joke although it should be obvious. Of course I wouldn't actually want a nuclear missile to be launched at Mars. It's too far away, you wouldn't be able to see anything. Instead, the Moon, nice and close, you would be able to see the fireball and dust cloud with the naked eye.

XD You're a sadistic fuck, has anyone told you yet?

And I know that 80% only joke, it is the 20% that I'm worried about

[Alexhans]

lol 

[PTTG??]

There is a perfect spot about 40~ miles from my home for this. It's a big granite mesa that exists because of the stone around it eroding. There's a natural cave system in it about half way up. It'd be perfect for our air-hangar, with further back chambers serving as kitchens, barracks, excercise rooms, store rooms, etc. and the top of the mesa could be our farmland once we drag enough soil up to it.

Aw man, and the best thing I have is only a huge series of former gold mines stretching for miles under granite mountains in some of the most beautiful terrain in the world. With a significant amount of gold remaining to be collected.

[kilakan]

only problem is gold makes shitty bullets, what you need is an iron mine.

[Itnetlolor]

We should use nukes to do cosmetic surgery on the man in the moon!!!!

Are there any plans to make it look like the moon on Majora's Mask? We can scare the life out of the zombies once more using that tactic.

[RAM]

Are you sure that gold wouldn't make decent bullets? They wouldn't pierce and sort of armour, but they don't have to, it should be comparatively easy to refine too. Trying to get Iron out of an Iron mine would be a nightmare...

[Qmarx]

Modern gold mines use cyanide as a solvent.  Bad idea.


I'd think that Okinawa would be a pretty defensible spot...

[Akigagak]

only problem is gold makes shitty bullets, what you need is an iron mine.

You know that non-AP bullets are made of lead, right?
Gold is harder then lead.

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[RAM]

I suspect it is mostly for its being common and heavy, but I really wouldn't know...

[MagmaDeath]

only problem is gold makes shitty bullets, what you need is an iron mine.

You know that non-AP bullets are made of lead, right?
Gold is harder then lead.

Why do they use lead actually? For it's malleability?

They use lead because it's Cheap, Has a low melting point, and it has a high density.

[sonerohi]

And for the Fun affects.

[The Architect]

Lead is common, very dense, and cheap because it has relatively few uses and a low melting point. Gold would make excellent bullets, being both extremely dense (about 2x as dense as lead even) and a little harder than lead, with a higher melting point (it would deform much less when fired). What a waste of flashy jewelry material though! We need to LOOK GOOD when fighting zombies! Oh, and you'd have to get pretty creative to effectively refine, melt and mold gold with nothing but wood and a hobby survivalist's knowledge.

[kilakan]

Who said that iron would be hard to refine, it's a dream to use if you have the right minerals, for instance my Grandfather worked at an iron mine that was mining pure magnetite, that is still present right up the road, and it's nearly 100% pure iron......  That and gold's a bitch to refine, and lead would kill you faster then the zombies would, what we need is a copper mine!

[The Architect]

First: no one said iron is hard to refine. However, I did say gold is hard to refine and that I doubt any hobby survivalist has the knowledge to do it.

Myth: Lead kills you.

Lead doesn't kill you. It doesn't even hurt you until you consume a large amount of it, through constant skin contact over a period of years or through directly eating significant amounts of it. You could intentionally eat small amounts of lead the whole time the zombies are there (given the time it would take a body to decompose) and not die, though you would suffer some brain damage. Lead poisoning isn't something you can get by walking through a place where lead is mined, unless they have come up with some drastically idiotic process which somehow vaporizes lead (a hard thing to do, by the way). You would have to sleep on a bed carved out of solid lead or eat with lead plateware to get lead poisoning in a lead mine.

It's perfectly safe to have everything in your house painted with lead paint, as long as you don't allow your children to chew the furniture. The only other issue with lead paint is that paint tends to become dust (and thus breathable) when a structure is demolished.