Nukes

[Atrocities]

I promote that if you glass a planet you damage the climate. This should be a stock effect of orbital bombardment of a planet.

[Randallw]

I had the same thing in mind if I could work out how to implement mass drivers.

[Kana]

Is there a climate damage type/effect? If so, couldnt you just add it to each weapons abilities to also damage the planet when you fire on it.

[Dizzy]

That would be good having a toggle for it... but the tech tree should reflect that higher levels of planetary bombardment weapons do not need to be 'dirty' bombs... but rather just infrastructure and population killers or both.

Current real life world destruction revolves around nukes which we all know to have massively negative radiological side effects. But as our technology grows, cleaner weapons of mass destruction should be possible, like the neutron bomb which destroys electrical components.

Who says WMD's have to be so dirty? What's wrong with clean WMD? In fact, what's wrong with a 'cleaning' WMD? One that not only destroys population and infrastructure, but at the same times rid the planet of all blood sucking mosquitos thereby improving planetary conditions?

[AngleWyrm]

Mosquitos do improve life, in a bizarre and counter-intuitive manner. They are nature's flu shot, spreading a small amount of disease to everyone, so that we have a chance to develop immunities.

Someone once told me that kids who are raised in overly-hygenic environments are more likely to develop asthma, allergies and other weaknesses of the immune system.

[Dizzy]

AngleWyrm said:
Mosquitos do improve life, in a bizarre and counter-intuitive manner.

STFU! Malaria, fool! Wiki it.

I wouldn't call one to three MILLION anual deaths due to mosquitos a bizarre improvement to life. I call it a cruel death. Don't forget the millions more in sickness and disability they cause, not to mention the rest of the spread of disease.

I fully support a bomb that would kill 10 million humans worldwide if it completely eradicated mosquitos once and for all. That's far fewer than the millions upon millions it would kill in the future.

Let's get interesting, tho. If I were the one that gave final authorization to use said bomb, and a vaccine for malaria was developed not 30 days after the fact, would I in fact be a murderer?

[Renegade 13]

I say mosquito's are an invaluable part of the food chain, even though they're pesky little bastards. Without mosquito's, the bats would starve, without the bats... etc etc.

[Randallw]

Just because something is bad for you doesn't mean it isn't also in a way of benefit. A prime example I can think of is oxygen. Yes we breathe oxygen, we need it to live, but oxygen is also corrosive. You can see what oxidation does to metal. Well Oxygen is also slowly poisoning the cells in your body. That's why they wear out and we die.

[Shadowstar]

You know, disease-ridden lifeforms may be a scourge on humanity, but they do a pretty decent job of protecting our planet from invading aliens too.

[Dizzy]

haha