12th March 2004, 1:25 PM
Well, actually nuking the cities would have gotten the same retaliation if that was to occur. I'm not sure that's an issue per say, but the rest of what I mentioned sure are issues.
There is ALWAYS an unoccupied area. I don't think you realize how truly massive our planet is relative to us. Humans are spread OUT everywhere, but are you even comprehending the sheer gaps between cities? You've only seen places with the human touch. You've never gone too far from a road, I think at least, most people haven't. Try driving into the country, and THEN walking out into the vastness for a while. I can promise you that if you kept it up, no one would EVER find you for a LONG time, until eons from then some archeoligists say stuff like "We assume this device, which we label a "backpack", was designed as a form of punishment.". Sure there's plenty of space to bomb nothing, and considering how big a nuke's explosion is, they'd see it. Keep in mind the other problems I thought of.
There is ALWAYS an unoccupied area. I don't think you realize how truly massive our planet is relative to us. Humans are spread OUT everywhere, but are you even comprehending the sheer gaps between cities? You've only seen places with the human touch. You've never gone too far from a road, I think at least, most people haven't. Try driving into the country, and THEN walking out into the vastness for a while. I can promise you that if you kept it up, no one would EVER find you for a LONG time, until eons from then some archeoligists say stuff like "We assume this device, which we label a "backpack", was designed as a form of punishment.". Sure there's plenty of space to bomb nothing, and considering how big a nuke's explosion is, they'd see it. Keep in mind the other problems I thought of.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)