Spyke
lemmy.world

Don't even need to go that far. History has shown us that just throwing a non-radioactive rock at someone is a weakness

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lemmy.ca

I argue that the entire history of weapon development has been "figure out better way to throw better rock".

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It’s funny when you learn that an ‘advanced weapon’ in hypothetical interplanetary warfare is ‘fling an asteroid into their planet’.

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lemmy.world

For conventional weapons, sure. But I don't think your description fits flamethrowers, sonic, or laser weaponry.

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sh.itjust.works

flamethrowers

Flamethrowers use oil products, which are part of petrochemistry. "Petro" comes from the Greek word for "rock".

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Flamethrower - throw burning rock Sonic - throw tiny rocks Laser - throw even tinier rocks

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feddit.org

Most dudes are weak against any rock. Rocks are very good at inducing skull fractures if you're not Superman, and stone knives were a thing, too. There's a reason why stone tools were popular for literally millions of years.

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we're also quite weak against.. most things, on the whole. It's more a matter of what doesn't instantly kill us

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sh.itjust.works

Nah, if you hold arsenic in my general vicinity, I'll feel extremely emotionally uncomfortable, but physically fine.

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Now I'm thinking there has to be an element where all isotopes are radioactive, because uranium doesn't radiate all the time

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Ech
lemmy.ca

It's really bugging me that the title is missing a word. It doesn't track with the music.

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I noticed it as well. "If I go crazy then will you still call me super man?"

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lemmy.world

That picture is NOT Uranium:

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table.

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bisbyreply
lemmy.world

That picture is uranium though? In the picture it has yellow oxides forming on the outside.

In the same way that if someone posted a picture of a rusty piece of iron, we'd still say it was iron, even though iron is a silvery-grey metal, but in the picture, it would be reddish/brown.

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