Current Events > $100,000,000 but a ~50MT nuclear bomb detonates somewhere on Earth.

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DarkTransient
10/07/18 5:36:42 PM
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Take it or leave it? - Results (17 votes)
Take it
41.18% (7 votes)
7
Leave it
58.82% (10 votes)
10
The detonation happens as soon as you accept the deal, and the location is picked at random and could be anywhere on the surface of the Earth, so there is a very good - but not 100% - chance that it will detonate in the middle of the ocean, or in the middle of an uninhabited desert, etc. However - the flipside is, it's possible (though very unlikely) you'll be caught in the blast.

Also, it's a magical nuke that doesn't produce any fallout. All other destructive effects (fireball, initial radiation burst, blast wave) still work as normal, there's just no radioactive fallout.

No one will ever be able to prove you took the deal, though some people may eventually notice that you received a huge sum of money around the same time as the nuke.
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HydraSlayer82
10/07/18 5:39:02 PM
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If it was 50 gigatons then sure.
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HashtagTartarus
10/07/18 5:39:22 PM
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Of course I take it. I'd never have to work another day in my life.
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Ki_cat_
10/07/18 5:40:12 PM
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Deal. I'll be too rich or too dead to care.

I also don't think you realize how powerful that is lol.
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HashtagTartarus
10/07/18 5:40:33 PM
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Ki_cat_ posted...
Deal. I'll be too rich or too dead to care.


Then why didn't you vote >:(
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tamashiini
10/07/18 5:41:59 PM
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Nah, it'd kill too much wildlife, that'd be shitty.
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DarkTransient
10/07/18 6:08:39 PM
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Ki_cat_ posted...
Deal. I'll be too rich or too dead to care.

I also don't think you realize how powerful that is lol.


50MT is a lot, but it's FAR from world-destroying. A 50MT nuke has been detonated before - it broke some windows nearly a megameter away, but didn't come anywhere close to global devastation.
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CanuckCowboy
10/07/18 6:26:20 PM
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That shit goes off in Tokyo or new York and you just became one of the greatest killers in human history. Hell no.
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Ki_cat_
10/07/18 6:43:06 PM
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True. I'm just thinking it could hit other nukes. That'd be cool.
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ssjevot
10/07/18 6:51:27 PM
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It could kill anywhere from 0 to millions, with the first being a more likely outcome. Still that is a tremendous risk and not worth the money. Whatever good you can do with that money it won't undue the potential evil you could cause.
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ssjevot
10/07/18 6:52:04 PM
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Ki_cat_ posted...
True. I'm just thinking it could hit other nukes. That'd be cool.


That's not how they work. They don't just go off.
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Hexenherz
10/07/18 6:57:37 PM
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That's stupid since it could theoretically trigger a massive chain reaction that destroys all life on earth.

I'll pass.
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Vicious_Dios
10/07/18 7:09:22 PM
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Pass.
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opopopza
10/07/18 7:34:56 PM
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Looking at the destruction by Tsar Bomba, this would basically wipe out everything with a ~25 mile radius. Chances of this randomly causing a ton of deaths would be extremely slim, chance of this causing any deaths would be slim.
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ssjevot
10/07/18 7:45:39 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
That's stupid since it could theoretically trigger a massive chain reaction that destroys all life on earth.

I'll pass.


How?
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DarkTransient
10/07/18 8:24:01 PM
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ssjevot posted...
Ki_cat_ posted...
True. I'm just thinking it could hit other nukes. That'd be cool.


That's not how they work. They don't just go off.


Yeah, this. It would very likely destroy the other nukes beyond reasonable repair, but that's it. At worst, it'd set off the non-nuclear explosive components, which would add something like 0.000000001% to the total power of the blast.

I mean, maybe primitive nukes like you might find in North Korea might get set off (though likely only with a fraction of their full power, and even their full power would be virtually negligable compared to 50MT), but no chance of a US or Russian weapon that anywhere NEAR resembles "modern" doing so.

Hexenherz posted...
That's stupid since it could theoretically trigger a massive chain reaction that destroys all life on earth.

I'll pass.


No, it couldn't. You'd need FAR bigger than 50MT for that, if it's even possible at all (which it likely isn't - the most likely mechanism for nukes to wipe out life, other than by using so many or such a powerful one that the blast(s) kill everything right away, is from the long-lasting fallout; which this hypothetical nuke does not have).
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Delta_F14
10/07/18 8:27:35 PM
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DarkTransient
10/07/18 8:30:27 PM
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Delta_F14 posted...
Here's a page to pick random coordinates:
https://www.random.org/geographic-coordinates/


I ran this 10 times.

I got one on the land/sea border of Antarctica, one on the border of India and Pakistan (oooh, that could start some serious shit...), one on the border of Kazakhstan and China (near where Kazakhstan and Mongolia almost touch), and the rest were all far from land.
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Hexenherz
10/07/18 9:37:40 PM
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DarkTransient posted...
ssjevot posted...
Ki_cat_ posted...
True. I'm just thinking it could hit other nukes. That'd be cool.


That's not how they work. They don't just go off.


Yeah, this. It would very likely destroy the other nukes beyond reasonable repair, but that's it. At worst, it'd set off the non-nuclear explosive components, which would add something like 0.000000001% to the total power of the blast.

I mean, maybe primitive nukes like you might find in North Korea might get set off (though likely only with a fraction of their full power, and even their full power would be virtually negligable compared to 50MT), but no chance of a US or Russian weapon that anywhere NEAR resembles "modern" doing so.

Hexenherz posted...
That's stupid since it could theoretically trigger a massive chain reaction that destroys all life on earth.

I'll pass.


No, it couldn't. You'd need FAR bigger than 50MT for that, if it's even possible at all (which it likely isn't - the most likely mechanism for nukes to wipe out life, other than by using so many or such a powerful one that the blast(s) kill everything right away, is from the long-lasting fallout; which this hypothetical nuke does not have).

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NeoShadowhen
10/07/18 9:43:39 PM
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This would be a lot cooler with some sort of random coordinate generator.

https://www.random.org/geographic-coordinates/

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slimfizzle2
10/07/18 9:43:39 PM
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HydraSlayer82 posted...
If it was 50 gigatons then sure.

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thronedfire2
10/07/18 9:44:51 PM
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DarkTransient posted...
Delta_F14 posted...
Here's a page to pick random coordinates:
https://www.random.org/geographic-coordinates/


I ran this 10 times.

I got one on the land/sea border of Antarctica, one on the border of India and Pakistan (oooh, that could start some serious shit...), one on the border of Kazakhstan and China (near where Kazakhstan and Mongolia almost touch), and the rest were all far from land.


I got 5 in the ocean, one in the gulf of mexico, one near the china/india border, another one in china, one in northern australia, and one in saudi arabia
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Doe
10/07/18 9:46:59 PM
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What the fuck is wrong with you people
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littlebro07
10/07/18 9:48:45 PM
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NeoShadowhen posted...
This would be a lot cooler with some sort of random coordinate generator.

https://www.random.org/geographic-coordinates/

Have fun. Remember, you've gotta decide before pushing.


I took the deal.

Detonation was in northern Antarctica

Did I just flood the fucking planet
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TomNook20
10/07/18 9:51:59 PM
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GAMERCAMRY
10/07/18 9:53:06 PM
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mfw the random detonation is right on top of you
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Eerieka
10/07/18 9:55:00 PM
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Delta_F14 posted...
Here's a page to pick random coordinates:
https://www.random.org/geographic-coordinates/


Took the deal, and then did this. It landed in a populated area of China. Whoops
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littlebro07
10/07/18 9:55:46 PM
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GAMERCAMRY posted...
mfw the random detonation is right on top of you


I thought this happened for me because I accidentally tapped on the Google maps link and it opened up to my location.
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bknight
10/07/18 9:58:18 PM
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Deal, got middle of nowhere Brazil, so probably only a few dozen dead.
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HashtagTartarus
10/07/18 9:58:41 PM
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NeoShadowhen posted...
This would be a lot cooler with some sort of random coordinate generator.

https://www.random.org/geographic-coordinates/

Have fun. Remember, you've gotta decide before pushing.


First roll went about halfway between Antarctica and the Falkland islands. Rerolled and... goodbye kangiqsualujjuaq.
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jumi
10/07/18 10:01:04 PM
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It detonates at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Goodbye Earth.
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DarkTransient
10/07/18 10:07:42 PM
#33:


DoomsSD posted...
Picked the money.

The nuke detonated in Argentina, in that little bit sandwiched between Paraguay and Uraguay.


YOU'RE a guay.
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littlebro07
10/07/18 10:09:06 PM
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Took the deal again because I wanted another mansion

Landed right in the middle of fucking Chicago

What have I done
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jumi
10/07/18 10:10:17 PM
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Score. I picked yes, ran the randomizer once, and got about 750 kms off the coast of Somalia in the ocean. Likely no fatalities.
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CapnMuffin
10/07/18 10:12:52 PM
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What if it detonated an ice cap? You could fuck every coastline city in the world
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DarkTransient
10/07/18 10:14:34 PM
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CapnMuffin posted...
What if it detonated an ice cap? You could fuck every coastline city in the world


That's one of the risks you take. The only risk you're safe from is fallout.
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tremain07
10/07/18 10:17:34 PM
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Hit some backwoods area between Oklahoma and Kansas, it looked like only a small handful of people lived there.
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CapnMuffin
10/07/18 10:18:56 PM
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The randomizer treated me well. Literally the very center of the south Atlantic.
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GigaSPX
10/07/18 10:29:13 PM
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I hit somewhere in the ocean away from South America's coast.

Topic rules made me think though that if you took the deal, it doesn't exclude from where you're at as well. So that would just be stupid to take the money and still die. lol
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theAteam
10/07/18 10:37:48 PM
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According to http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ a 50mt blast (air burst) has a destructive radius of ~37 miles (3rd degree burns occur up to that point).

I used the coordinate and got here: 26.04658, 77.72452

Middle of India about 150 mi. south of New Delhi.

I imagine there's a decent headcount just by the sake of population density in India. More importantly I imagine they immediately attack Pakistan in retaliation and shit hits the fan globally. So I think I lose.
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xMythic
10/07/18 10:44:59 PM
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I took the deal.

Goodbye Tuktut Nogait National Park. You will be missed. Not by me, but you will be missed.
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TheBiggerWiggle
10/07/18 10:48:38 PM
#43:


I vote yes and got Maracaibo Venezuela. Hopefully too many people dont live there
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slimfizzle2
10/07/18 10:52:08 PM
#44:


Not Tuktut Nogait National Park.

You bastards
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Mareen
10/07/18 11:00:31 PM
#45:


Deal.

And the nuke detonated on one of those remote Canadian islands near Greenland. Don't think too many people live up there..
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Forlorn_Ass
10/07/18 11:04:08 PM
#46:


Doe posted...
What the fuck is wrong with you people


What you mean?
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VideoboysaysCube
10/07/18 11:08:12 PM
#47:


I'm no expert, but wouldn't a detonation in the ocean pose a risk for tsunamis?
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Doe
10/07/18 11:10:35 PM
#48:


Forlorn_Ass posted...
Doe posted...
What the fuck is wrong with you people


What you mean?

Risking the lives of countless people for money?
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bladegash
10/07/18 11:25:31 PM
#49:


I took it.

Nuclear fallout in Antarctica. Poor 13 scientists. Though i guess its gettin close to that time of year everyone evacuates. Maybe they lived.
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Rika_Furude
10/07/18 11:38:15 PM
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How about no
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