I liked how in Rogue One they become aware you can just blow up like 0.5% of a planet and the rest becomes uninhabitablehttps://twitter.com/thinkpiecebot/status/815524031608881152 …
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So blowing up the whole planet is just a huge waste of energy
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Which apparently is costly bc the whole original Star Wars plot happens bc they tell a dude not to "waste ammo" on an "empty" escape pod
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Then again IRL we have enough nukes to kill everyone on earth hundreds of times so
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"We need lots of redundant nukes in case their nukes blow up our launching sites before we can shoot our nukes back" is a great explanation
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They srsly discussed the "problem" of "What if the ppl at the silos decide it'd be better to let the commies win than end the human race"
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Dual strategy of 1) automate the system as much as possible, 2) exaggerate how bad communism was so killing everyone seems preferable
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I don't think the ppl in charge actually believed omnicide was preferable to defeat but it's a game of chicken you see (game theory!)
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Fun fact, you and I and everyone are only alive right now bc one guy in a Russian submarine failed to make that call
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This guy literally saved the lives of everyone on Earth and you probably were never told about him https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov …
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(The movie Crimson Tide was very loosely based on this story)
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