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December 21, 2012 
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Post Re: December 21, 2012
The Dude Abides wrote:
Fun fact: The USSR built an autonomous nuclear launch system that would retaliate if American missiles hit Russian soil.
Oh, and it's still operational.
How can it tell?

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Post Re: December 21, 2012
I don't believe it can, but that was the intended purpose.

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Post Re: December 21, 2012
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I don't believe it can, but that was the intended purpose.

Maybe because it was made in a time where the missiles most likely to hit Russia were American. Plus, it wasn't fully automated, if I remember correctly.

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Post Re: December 21, 2012
Hakker wrote:
The Dude Abides wrote:
I don't believe it can, but that was the intended purpose.

Maybe because it was made in a time where the missiles most likely to hit Russia were American. Plus, it wasn't fully automated, if I remember correctly.

A person could deactivate it with a button. But if nobody did, the system would just assume everyone died and retaliate.

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Post Re: December 21, 2012
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Hakker wrote:
The Dude Abides wrote:
I don't believe it can, but that was the intended purpose.

Maybe because it was made in a time where the missiles most likely to hit Russia were American. Plus, it wasn't fully automated, if I remember correctly.

A person could deactivate it with a button. But if nobody did, the system would just assume everyone died and retaliate.
What could dead people gain with that?

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About 2012 by the way, I heard that something would happen where humans would have an advancement in their minds and some sphere would be created around the Earth. The sphere would allow humans to reach full capacity and see things through. Of course, that's what i heard. Personally, the world is *(&%^&$ when the sun begins to die.
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Post Re: December 21, 2012
The Darkness Within wrote:
The Dude Abides wrote:
Hakker wrote:
The Dude Abides wrote:
I don't believe it can, but that was the intended purpose.

Maybe because it was made in a time where the missiles most likely to hit Russia were American. Plus, it wasn't fully automated, if I remember correctly.

A person could deactivate it with a button. But if nobody did, the system would just assume everyone died and retaliate.
What could dead people gain with that?

Nothing, but nobody would attack them, huh?

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I've heard that even Thailand had a few nuclear missiles pointed up North until China asked us to dismantle them in the 70s.

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As 'ask', you mean 'threaten'?

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Post Re: December 21, 2012
Details are pretty sketchy, but I don't think they threatened to invade or whatnot. The silo is still there today, and it has an active guard around it. Makes me wonder if we really disarmed our nuclear armaments.

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Silver Soruichi wrote:
About 2012 by the way, I heard that something would happen where humans would have an advancement in their minds and some sphere would be created around the Earth. The sphere would allow humans to reach full capacity and see things through. Of course, that's what i heard. Personally, the world is *(&%^&$ when the sun begins to die.

Which won't happen for a very long time. Like "billions of years" long.

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2Rsyes wrote:
Silver Soruichi wrote:
About 2012 by the way, I heard that something would happen where humans would have an advancement in their minds and some sphere would be created around the Earth. The sphere would allow humans to reach full capacity and see things through. Of course, that's what i heard. Personally, the world is *(&%^&$ when the sun begins to die.

Which won't happen for a very long time. Like "billions of years" long.

This is true.

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Soulful wrote:
2Rsyes wrote:
Silver Soruichi wrote:
About 2012 by the way, I heard that something would happen where humans would have an advancement in their minds and some sphere would be created around the Earth. The sphere would allow humans to reach full capacity and see things through. Of course, that's what i heard. Personally, the world is *(&%^&$ when the sun begins to die.

Which won't happen for a very long time. Like "billions of years" long.

This is true.

I'll wake up that morning with a strange taste in my mouth.

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Post Re: December 21, 2012
Soulful wrote:
2Rsyes wrote:
Silver Soruichi wrote:
About 2012 by the way, I heard that something would happen where humans would have an advancement in their minds and some sphere would be created around the Earth. The sphere would allow humans to reach full capacity and see things through. Of course, that's what i heard. Personally, the world is *(&%^&$ when the sun begins to die.

Which won't happen for a very long time. Like "billions of years" long.

This is true.
I believe the estimate currently stands at 5-6 billion years. The lack of sunlight isn't what bothers me, it's the lack of a gravitational pull. I mean, what'll happen when all of a sudden, we get flung towards god knows what.

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Post Re: December 21, 2012
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This is true.
I believe the estimate currently stands at 5-6 billion years. The lack of sunlight isn't what bothers me, it's the lack of a gravitational pull. I mean, what'll happen when all of a sudden, we get flung towards god knows what.[/quote]
Wouldn't the Sun's gravitational pull actually get stronger that close to the end of its lifetime? :huh:

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