Science Wars
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Judging by various posts in particular those in the mathematical quandries thread it seems like there is a large number of us from scientific backgrounds. For FUN I was thinking about doing a sort of competition where we use our science knowledge (including hypothetical and just weird) to show how we would become the ultimate mad geniuses and take over the world. Anything (PG13) goes including alliances, backstabbing, pure sci fi. I have no idea how I'd score this or even how it will work if it does but I thought I'd see if we can give it a go. (It might be helpful if we described our background in our first post to show what kind of knowledge we had) By the way non-sciency people just as welcome. I've a degree in electronic systems so my basis is electronics and software with a reasonable maths/physics back up. I will probably take part later but for now may the games (hopefully) begin.
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*Crevs Daak kicks the ball. The ball rolls 3 meters away!*
*Crevs Daak blows a Magical Horn of Noise only 1 meter away from @meagloth to wake him up*
*insert evil laugh here*
For my evil (and incredibly awesome and brilliant) plan I will place large thermonuclear devices at the following co-ordinates:
44.6000° N, 110.5000° W
2.6845° N, 98.8756° E
38.8069° S, 175.9078° E
23.1667° S, 67.4167° W
37.7564° N, 106.9342° W
25.9167° S, 66.8667° W
I will then retreat to my pre prepared vault/bunker somewhere in europe with my carefully selected volunteers who will form my master race (seeking people of all backgrounds as long as they're sarcastic ****holes). Once in my vault I will trigger the devices and wait till everything's calmed down. at which point I will repopulate the earth with an entire civiization of sarcastic "jon snow"s.
You know, sometimes I amaze even myself...
*insert additional evil laughter as required*
Also, this bunker absolutely must contain a hidden trapdoor leading to a pirhana tank, activated by a hidden mechanism from your throne-like swivel chair, on which you swivel to face heroes who unexpectedly burst in!
Oh, and you need at least one elaborate auto-execution machine for when you capture somebody trying to thwart your plans, because simply killing them there and then is a definite no-no. Instead you must put them in the machine, then walk away, confident that the hero will absolutely not escape this machine and return to continue to hamper your efforts.
sure a complete genius and expert with that tech could disarm one of them if they opened it up but that sort of genius is rare indeed and there were multiple nukes hidden at each site And some of the sites are half a world away from each other, theres no way you could disarm them all in time, even one detonation could cause a cataclysmic extinction event.
I'm still not sure exactly why I'm telling you all of this though.
Oh and I use my loyal friends who happen to be the crew of a vanguard class trident submarine to nuke yellowstone to make sure it triggers the volcano (if your blowing the silos up didn't already do that for me)
You could always have just asked to be part of my master race, you didn't just have to ruin all of my plans. at least I'm safe from the fallout in my bunker.
I guess I'll just have to sit here stroking my cat.
But since skinnydragon and I have already laid waste to america nad russia that's rather unlikely to happen
Of course, the radiation has its uses, but you'd need to make sure that only those who resist are hurt by it.
Forget Amn vs Baldur's GAte, how about The Agricultural Biotech Civil War?
@lolien it is the origin of your species
Between me and @wubble we have irradiated a reasonable portion of both America and Russia. I'm going to assume that no politicians are going to have nuclear silos in their own back yards however so they aren't quite out of the fight though.
@wubble has also launched a nuclear strike on the volcano at yellowstone so even greater devestation to America. He is hiding in a bunker in an undisclosed European location.
@meagloth has struck at several key communication nodes including satelites and the internet. He is currently making diplomatic moves to offer to restore communications in echange for fealty. His hideout is an undetectable space station.
Several thousands of people are hanging up feeling just as annoyed with telephone services but strangely happy about someone called @skinnydragon although they currently have no idea who that is.
@booinyoureyes has deployed at least two genetically modified fungal lifeforms. The current lack of communications infrastructure is hampering our ability to know more about their locations or capabillities.
Reactions that I think are most likely (feel free to say if you want/believe a different response from neutral parties)
American Government *gets out map of world dartboard and throws dart* Approaches UN with "proof" that where the dart hits was behind the terrorist attacks on their soil and demands a task force to prevent terrorism.
Russian Government makes claims that Ukranian hackers supported by western governments are responsible. Demands reparations and threatens escalation of the conflict in Crimea.
British Government despatch hunter-killer subs to take down the "rogue" vanguard. The official investigation finds further evidence to support America's claims.
EU non-commital backing of Britain and America. Use their support as bargaining chips in Britain's treaty renegotiation.
UN back-stabbing, endless debates and constant bickering. No consensus reached at this stage
Minor nuclear powers. Nations with a few small nukes suddenly get more power as the big players lose their stock the more millitant regimes begin flexing their muscles and attempting to annexe neighbouring states