I'm convinced us human folk have been trying to blow up the earth since gunpowder was invented. We just aren't capable yet.The Annoyed Man wrote:[humor]Texas Dan Mosby wrote:Uh.....In a nutshell, some statisticians have "proved" the world we live in today is "safer" by far than at any other time in human history.....
I don't recall humanity having the capability to detonate weapons capable of engulfing the entire surface of the earth with radioactive materials harmful to all living beings prior to about....oh, 1945 or so.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
You'd be wrong. The ability to "engulf the entire surface of the earth with radioactive materials harmful to all living beings didn't come about until about 3 or 4 years later. For the first 3 or 4 years of the atomic age, we could only engulf entire cities with radioactive materials harmful to all living beings.
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=91e_1317502323
Cool video there^
The US has over 1k in tests. Russia not far behind plus the 6 or 7 other nations that are nuke capable with a few each. So around 2k in bombs detonated and zero ill effects for 99% of us.
H bomb with 1k square mile fallout. Assume all of ours are h-bombs and that's only 4 million square miles of radiatin'. Say the rest of the world has an arsenal equal to double ours and that's 12 million sq miles.
The only problem is we live on a planet with 500 million square miles of bomb blowin' up real-estate. So I figure we either need a smaller planet or more bombs.
Calculations are guaranteed to be accurate to 10^9 square miles