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A_Good_Boy posted...

I still don't understand why you people think a nuke is going to hurt Raditz. We know that Raditz has conquered several worlds, why do you think modern Earth has the most advanced tech out of all those planets he may or may not have destroeyed despite the fact that we see glimpes of those other worlds and they possess spaceships, cyborg tech, healing tanks, and etc. Do you think intergalactic weaponry lagged in advancement compared to modern weaponry despite it being shown that Earth is a bit of an intergalactic backwater?

Obviously the alien civilizations are fiction and so is Raditz, but this is a hypothetical scenario. I don't necessarily know Toriyama's background but I'm sure he didn't have intimate knowledge of modern military capabilities at when he wrote the episodes. I think that's important, because as writer, his ideas of "advanced" and "powerful" militaries are/were probably much lesser than what even the human military actually is. As seen in DBZ. This is common in almost ALL forms of media featuring our own military actually. Perfect example is how the military is always defeated by zombies. That wouldn't happen in real life lmfao. What I'm saying is, someone who isn't knowledgeable on how powerful a military is will likely undersell how powerful militaries are in a story they make, and applies to fictional militaries even with some sci-fi imagination. The real US military is probably stronger than any military shown in Dragon Ball.

Also, why do you think Raditz can't contend or comprehend with radiation? The dude's been traveling the stars since his childhood. Space is filled to the brim with background radiation, it's a very important factor that's impossible to ignore for viable space travel yet Raditz has managed the feat all of his life. Why do you think a relative backwater planet is going to surprise him with stuff he's been dealing with all of his life?

There's really no way to know if Raditz can survive radiation. What we do know is that all Saiyans travel through space using spaceships that almost certainly block radiation. Pretty much Space Travel Design Must-have 101 (that we know of). Could the alien planets he visited have had radiation on them? Who knows. They coincidentally all had to have breathable oxygen so... a radioactive planet would probably be deemed inhospitable.