Here is the problem, Mr. Schlosser is a journalist, not a Nuclear Scientist. He does not understand, or has chosen to ignore for propaganda reasons, that an unarmed warhead is EXTREMELY unlikely to perform the exact sequence of events that need to take place to have a nuclear reaction happen.

Yes, he is fully correct in that we have had numerous 'butt-clenching' moments in which we could have started WW3 due to a malfunction or human error. But in the other cases he mentions, such as the bombs that landed on Spain, the lightning bolt on the tower, and the wrench on the rocket, the chance of the warhead going up while being unarmed is infinitesimal. They simply don't go 'boom' because of a collision or explosion. Now you could have a 'dirty bomb' type incident where the radioactive materials could be spread and come into contact with humans, but that is about it.

The cases that have been officially listed as Broken Arrows were because they involved an active bomb, like the one in Florida. Everything else he mentions in this video is his 'belief' and is conjecture.

Now, before I get unloaded on, I wish we didn't have nuclear weapons. I don't agree with Trump that we should renew the arms race, I think he is nuts since we have more than enough weapons to blanket the cities of the world more than a couple of times. If you add all the nukes from the Big 3 (USA/Russia/France...yes, France) there are enough to cover every single inch of the world.

The problem is, who bells the cat? If we give up all of our weapons, we are at risk. I wish we weren't, but we would be. If we bring down our numbers gradually, there are still other countries that may not, like North Korea. How do we trust the other country is actually following through? In a perfect world, we would all lay down our weapons and sing kumbaya, but as Heinlein wrote: "...Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."

PS...Yes, I know Starship Troopers is a controversial novel with overtones of Militarism and Fascism. However, there are quotes that ring true no matter what 'ism' people attach to the overall story. If you doubt that, look at the utter disbelief and depression that overcame liberals when Trump won. "He simply was supposed to, it was impossible, not like this, we have no hope, etc" were the feelings of the people who gave him no hope of winning. I, having lived and read enough to get a fair picture of how fucked up we are as a species, had little doubt he could pull it off. We elected a former Wrestler as governor, a former actor as governor, and a former actor as President. We overlook mass genocide in other countries. We ignore climate change. We spend hundreds of billions on defense and less than 10 on space exploration, all the while living on a planet that is already critically overpopulated (and is growing almost exponentially).

While the cynic in me kind of agrees with you I would still be left asking the question, if not this, then what?

I suppose they could be just chasing each other around New York throwing lightning bolts and fireballs at each other or similar magical tropes. But it would probably come off feeling like just another action movie battle scene where shit gets blowed up good. It feels to me like they're trying to make magic feel like something other than just another super power, so I'll give them points for trying.

Dear God, I'm not really a believer, but I'll give you an amen for a well placed lightning bolt right about now.

Somewhat disappointed that he didn't include my personal favorite argument against Pascal's Wager: conflicting faiths.

Instead of a 4-cell chart (2x2 from believe/don't believe and god exists/doesn't), the chart should arguably be a LOT bigger. Plenty of individual branches of Christianity will tell you that *their* specific brand is the only one that will get you into heaven. And that's just relatively minor distinctions -- different sorts of Protestants, or Protestants vs Catholics, etc. We haven't even got to Christianity vs Judaism vs Islam -- all of which fall under the "Abrahamic" umbrella -- but very few Christian faiths think that Jews or Muslims are just as eligible to enter heaven as they are (or vice-versa). From there you can get to things as disparate as Hindu vs Ancient Egyptian vs Zoroastrianism, and everything else.

With that sort of chart, it is just as easy to say that choosing to believe in the *wrong* god could possibly be associated with a more negative outcome than washing your hands of it and going Atheist. Maybe I chose to believe in Ra the Sun God when Zeus ends up being the one true deity. Come to find that Zeus, as it turns out, tolerates people who don't believe in him as long as they don't believe in one of his competitors (like Ra). Therefore I get a lightning bolt to the keyster and a trip to Hades while my nonbeliever buddy gets a ticket to Elysium.

Of course it's all a load of bollocks, but if your argument is a load of bollocks (like Pascal's wager) you don't get to complain when somebody flips it on its head and uses it to argue the exact opposite...

Okay... but with that 2 pound draw bow, where are any of these skills useful outside of LARPing?

I mean, all he needs is a friend with a tinfoil covered wooden sword, and another with a funny hat, shouting, "Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!" for this to be complete.

I thought it was refraction from the heat ?

so a shockwave like how a lightning bolt makes thunder I would guess ?

Zeus: Why you keep calling me Jesus? I look Puerto Rican
to you!?

John: That guy back there called you Jesus.

Zeus: He didn't call me Jesus, he said, "Hey, Zeus."
My name, is 'Zeus!'

John: Zeus?

Zeus: Yeah, Zeus! As in father of Apollo?.... Mount Olympus!?
Don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning-bolt up your ass!? Zeus! You got
a problem with that?!

John: No!??

Okay,

Weaknesses
1). His love of humanity - Absolutely
2). Lois Lane (and Jonathan & Martha Kent)
3). Kryptonite - Proven Absolutely
4). Red Sun or Starless worlds would void his powers but first you have to make him go there.
5). Magic - Can slow him down, but can't kill him
6). Virus X - Kryptonian leprosy, the only form of disease for which Kryptonians had not found a cure (Turns out Blue Kryptonite is the cure)
7). Mind Control - He has no powers against mind control but he is a strong minded individual and has battled this and won before.
8 ). Extreme amounts of force/impact ("Darkseid and a few others have this power").
9). No air/Food/water - Superman could survive indefinitely without food, water, or rest due to the yellow sun's radiation sustaining him.

Shazam - Almost killed Superman with his lightning bolts which are magic
Lex Luthor used a magical artifact called the Powerstone to take his powers away.
Wonder Woman's magic sword can cut him.
Hulk kicked his ass once too but wasn't able to follow through.

Looks like his next major weakness after Kryptonite is Magic. Not all magic though. Only some magic granted by Gods, and then only some gods has the power to affect him. Magic has been able to lay him out but has never stopped him.

Check this forum where they clearly argue it out:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-72127.html

My point was that I was raised a catholic, not that I was bound by it's teachings and dogma. I had even stopped going to church when the real questioning began and would have considered myself agnostic just as you said you were when god revealed himself to you.

Futhermore I am entirely open to the possibility that there could be a god, but as there is no evidence to support the claim that there is, I remain unconvinced.

But if there is a god, hey there buddy, feel free to strike me with a lightning bolt in a "Road to Damascas" type situation. If you really exist then we should all love to know the truth about it.

I'll let you know when he calls!

Wow, they have satellite photos of Tatooine now! Looks dangerous.

>> ^gwiz665:

There's a difference between creating a subreddit and actually posting things in it.
Reddit is driven by the users and jailbait had a lot of users. Why is the creator / moderator's head being put on a spike, but everyone else washes their hands? Why not expose the names of everyone who ever used that subreddit? Are they not as creepy too? Nonono, this one guy can take the lightning bolt so we can get on to more serious business like who should be the next president, should it be tweedle-dee or tweedle-dumb?
Here's a picture for all you white knight assholes http://i.imgur.com/Ob8LI.jpg you'll feel at home.
Fair warning: don't click that link.

There's a difference between creating a subreddit and actually posting things in it.

Reddit is driven by the users and jailbait had a lot of users. Why is the creator / moderator's head being put on a spike, but everyone else washes their hands? Why not expose the names of everyone who ever used that subreddit? Are they not as creepy too? Nonono, this one guy can take the lightning bolt so we can get on to more serious business like who should be the next president, should it be tweedle-dee or tweedle-dumb?

Here's a picture for all you white knight assholes http://i.imgur.com/Ob8LI.jpg you'll feel at home.

Fair warning: don't click that link.

>> ^Fantomas:

>> ^Reefie:
>> ^Fantomas:
What the hell was that?

Just a wild guess, I'd suggest lightning?
When freeze-framing you can definitely see the lightning bolt, but the resulting fireball looks like it hit something combustible.


Just hitting a tree can result in a fireball, which I think is the case here.

>> ^Reefie:

>> ^Fantomas:
What the hell was that?

Just a wild guess, I'd suggest lightning?
When freeze-framing you can definitely see the lightning bolt, but the resulting fireball looks like it hit something combustible.

>> ^messenger:

Can anyone explain what's happening here? Looks like the lightning is sending out feelers for the earth, and when it finds it, everybody else quits looking.


That's exactly what happens, a whole bunch of arcs of electricity fan out looking for earth (called leaders). Positively charged streamers can also start rising from points on the earth. When a connection is made between sky and earth that becomes the path of least resistance and the main force of electricity passes through that, which is the main lightning bolt we actually see.

I like the idea, but I always find it funny that it kills off everything electrical in a stupendous fashion and yet it never once touches living organisms--if it can't touch living organisms, LOTS of stuff would still work assuming it has shielding. There is a reason lightning bolts can stop your heart after all, or you sticking a fork into a power outlet--something of this magnitude might throw off the rhythm of the heart killing people and animals, especially the closer you get to ground zero.

We are an chemical-electrical device.

Hope the show does good.

P.S.: Did it get rid of lightning too (that would cause problems unforeseen)? Cause you could always, slowly harvest electrical energy from... I'll shut-up now...