I mean after watching Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines in cinemas/theatres when it came out in 2003/2004 and on DVD a few times ever since, I mean I watched Civil War (2024) recently and I reminded myself how, even if let's say unrelatedly the world was controlled by illuminati, or by puppet masters behind the scenes, or by political masters ever since the dawn of modern times or like Resident Evil The Final Chapter or Twilight's Last Gleaming, those movies all commonly ended with the nukes worldwide being used to just end the world and either start afresh for humanity or leave the Earth a winter rock or a smouldering globe. Accidentally, deliberately or coincidentally, will the world ever end someday by worldwide nukes "just because the world has run its course/overpopulation/boredom" if there were political masters, lizard people, etc lol? Those nutcase tinfoil hat wearers so I just had to ask the question 😋🥲 that way I don't go thinking in years or decades ahead "shrug, the world's gonna end someday anyways, climate change, overpopulation, greed, rude people, ha, cringes and sweats and sighs" 😔😯😆
No; they're nowhere near that powerful. Oh, nukes could destroy civilization, no problem, but not the human race, and certainly not the Earth. Our entire planet's combined nuclear arsenal is dwarfed by the energy that would be released if Yellowstone blew, and that's just ONE supervolcano. And humanity- not with modern infrastructure and technology, but in 70,000 BC- survived Toba.
But it would still suck, which is why it's good that it probably won't happen. Ever hear of Vasily Arkhipov? The guy who there're supposed to be statues of on every streetcorner on Earth? He was the second-in-command on a Soviet sub that just happened to be spotted by an American destroyed group off the coast of Cuba in October of 1962. Not knowing what it was, and not getting a response to its hails, the USN started dropping depth charges. These were signaling charges, which are supposed to force a sub to surface, not to destroy it, but of course the Soviets didn't know that. Taking these as the opening shots of WW3 (which they kind of were), the command crew decided to fire back... with their nuclear-tipped torpedo.
But that required a unanimous vote of the command crew. The captain voted yes. The political officer (Soviet, remember) voted yes. Vasily, knowing the US would retaliate and a nuclear war start, said "No, let's not destroy civilization today", and voted no. The sub surfaced, the USN realized what they'd almost just done, and everybody agreed to back down and let cooler heads prevail- just kidding! That was only the START of the Cuban missile crisis!
Nineteen years later, a guy named Stanislav Petrov found himself in almost the same situation, when a faulty computer chip at his radar station mistook a flock of geese for a wing of American bombers, and he alone refused to send the ICBM launch orders.
So even in the heart of the ideologically-driven "evil empire", humanity prevailed.
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It can happen, a nuclear holocaust is a very real threat, why you think that US and Russia never fight a direct war? US give money and weapons to Ukraine by that's it. I am not worried about AI or Illuminati, but Iran are crezy islamists who likely to use nukes if they would have them.
Scientists believe earth will become uninhabitable when the sun becomes a red giant in about a billion years. It will be so hot it will boil off the oceans, that's if humans don't find a way to destroy the earth before than of course.
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I don't find it useful to think that way. My analytical side also thinks there are enough inhibitors to predict it unlikely in the relatively near future. Even if I'm wrong though, I don't find it useful.
I suspect we can do better then nukes. Fusion power maybe, or maybe a successor to COVID. Or just keep pumping oestrogens into the food stream and let infertility sort the problem out.
None of the above. Nukes will drop. To much hatred and giant egos in charge but only about 1/3 of humans will be wiped out, Then the real fun begins.
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might already happened... in the future
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