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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 23:29 |
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Nukes in space.
International treaty bans nuclear weapons in space.
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 23:24 |
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Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jun 13, 2011, 22:47:
You know, just sayin', the problem stated in Homefront is real. Nukes in space. The USA is rapidly on track to have perfect missile defenses: no ICBM nuke will make it to US soil. BUT, if you just launch them high above the US and don't try to make it through the missile shield before you detonate them: massive electromagnetic pulse. All your power lines (well the lines will be fine but all the substations will be burnt out), your computers, your cars, just turned into junk. Now, try to fix and replace *ALL* of it at the same time. Ok, so someone with enough nukes could launch a suicide attack against the US and take out our electronics. Then what? What's their endgame? Do they have some kind of desperate need to depopulate their country... completely? Just not making much sense here...
Here's another scenario that's just as bad as "hackers getting direct control of nuclear networks." The Russians during the cold war built a "doomsday device." It's purpose was to maintain the balance of power against US nuclear submarines that could just surface off the Russian coast and launch a preemptive attack. They *really* should turn that thing off because while it had a purpose during the cold war it's a liability now. It's basically a network of seismographs and if they pick up the signature of a nuclear explosion on Russian soil they start counting down. If they don't get a signal to stop the countdown they launch all their nukes when the times up. And all those nukes are still pointed at the US because there is simply no better place to point them yet. Only top politicians in Russia have the codes to stop it. So, some rag-tag band of terrorists get a hold of *1* nuke. Place that puppy in Moscow. Set off the seismographs at the same time as vaporizing the people with the authority to turn it off. You would hope the Russians thought of that but even really smart people don't think of everything.
As for the same rag-tag terrorists smuggling a nuke into a US city (and perhaps a Russian one) that's not likely to happen. US cities (who knows how many yet but eventually it'll probably be all of them) are ringed with radiation detectors put up for exactly that type of attack. You never read about them first-hand, but you do read about cancer treatment patients being stopped every once in a while traveling between US cities. The radiation in their bodies from the treatment while super low is still detectable - apparently - because that group of people do get stopped.
But above all that, you just got to have faith in people. I lived through the Cold War and it was a freaky time. Once the Soviet Union fell a story would trickle out every few years and it was always about some kind of malfunction with an early warning system here or that type. And what happened invariably? The people, the average person, who just happened to be in the position to make it all go to hell just simply refused to launch. The just didn't do it. Yes, they were disciplined and some even went to prison but no one was going to be responsible for the end of the world. And events of that kind happened on both sides over the years.
Seriously, nation to nation nukes are all kinds of simple but when you're dealing with tiny little threats that may just happen to have a big bang because of the inevitable proliferation of arms over the decades: I really hope the people who really know what's going on have updated their plans.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/09/soviet-doomsday/
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 23:09 |
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| Will the single player campaign be longer then seven hours this time around? |
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| Don't start anything you can't finish. Preferably to component atoms. |
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 22:55 |
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| Anyhoo back on topic, so THQ, you just fired your studio who made this franchise then announce your gonna continue it despite them. Why didn't you just line them up against a wall if you hated the devs so much. Seriously fuckin pathetic.. |
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 22:54 |
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| Gary Mckinnon hacked thru NSA/NASA computers with little effort, it seems the recent plague of hack attacks shows how lazy people are with their security |
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 22:52 |
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| We'd still have carriers around the world that could finish them off whoever starts it, not to mention the top secret stuff but that prob wont be used unless the world is about to end |
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 22:51 |
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The assumption is sanity. Any nation that lobbed enough nukes to do that would likely be a glowing hole for centuries to come. But, say some really good hacker manages to penetrate Russian nuclear control networks? That's probably not possible but people all over the world are really creative and really insane too.
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 22:51 |
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| Is this some kinda joke THQ? LULZ |
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 22:47 |
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You know, just sayin', the problem stated in Homefront is real. Nukes in space. The USA is rapidly on track to have perfect missile defenses: no ICBM nuke will make it to US soil. BUT, if you just launch them high above the US and don't try to make it through the missile shield before you detonate them: massive electromagnetic pulse. All your power lines (well the lines will be fine but all the substations will be burnt out), your computers, your cars, just turned into junk. Now, try to fix and replace *ALL* of it at the same time. Ok, so someone with enough nukes could launch a suicide attack against the US and take out our electronics. Then what? What's their endgame? Do they have some kind of desperate need to depopulate their country... completely? Just not making much sense here... |
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thanks for identifying yourself |
Jun 13, 2011, 22:33 |
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headkase wrote on Jun 13, 2011, 22:21:
just sayin',
talk to the hand, girlfriend, oh no you di ent! woot FAIL epic |
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 22:29 |
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| And they delete my comments.... |
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Re: Homefront 2 Confirmed |
Jun 13, 2011, 22:21 |
headkase |
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| You know, just sayin', the problem stated in Homefront is real. Nukes in space. The USA is rapidly on track to have perfect missile defenses: no ICBM nuke will make it to US soil. BUT, if you just launch them high above the US and don't try to make it through the missile shield before you detonate them: massive electromagnetic pulse. All your power lines (well the lines will be fine but all the substations will be burnt out), your computers, your cars, just turned into junk. Now, try to fix and replace *ALL* of it at the same time. |
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