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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Sep 16, 2017 - 09:50am PT
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A single nuclear-armed US submarine carries the TNT equivalent of roughly seven World War II’s. About 10 such subs are at sea at any given time.
About 400 nuclear-tipped missiles are stationed underground in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, and North Dakota. They’re staffed 24/7 and kept on hair-trigger alert, ready to launch if and when they receive orders from the president.
As Commander in Chief, the president enjoys complete control over the US nuclear arsenal. No one in Congress, the judicial branch, or even the US military can legally prevent their use once the president’s order is given.
#1 threat = Donald Trump
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Sep 16, 2017 - 11:42am PT
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crankster: you list Armageddon doomsday options that are hopefully way down the list of military measures that could (but hopefully will not) be implemented.
Arms Control Wonk Michael Krepon's article "PROLIFERATION IN THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY" is worth a read...
http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1203818/proliferation-in-the-age-of-uncertainty/
This really struck me in the recent CNN documentary on North Korea, the beauty of the Heaven Lake caldera at Mount Baekdu, on the northern border with China.
Of course, the documentary film did not show the labor camps that are described in Shin Dong-hyuk's "Escape from Camp 14."
Our only hope, is that cooler heads prevail...
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2017 - 03:13pm PT
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4. Trump supporters...
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Sep 22, 2017 - 04:02am PT
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Any one know or care what Edgar Casey & or Nastrodamus had to say -visa-vie the ends of humanity?
PITY THE FOOL WHO CAN NOT ADMIT TO THE MISTAKE OF HIS CHOICES
far
i choose to be proud of having climbed with climbers like Gordo & Big AL
Not having spat bits in. Yber space with other victims of circumstance!
V V V V V
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Sep 22, 2017 - 08:55am PT
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1) Water
Has killed a lot of folks.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 22, 2017 - 09:27am PT
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Cosmic, I sincerely hope you don't lump Leprechauns with Gnomes. :-/
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Sep 22, 2017 - 09:48am PT
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Just to get totally serious again, human kind seems capable of advancing at remarkable speed. If you follow half a billion years of the evolution of life attempting to survive on Earth, it follows that nature might develop a species capable of carrying Earth life beyond Earth to other worlds as an assurance that it might survive beyond the limitations of a single planet.
Therefore the greatest threats would be those that stop mankind from advancing and fulfilling this postulated manifest destiny; to populate this sector of the galaxy and at least, other worlds within our solar system.
The three things that pose a threat to life on Earth:
3. People with no ambition.
2. People who believe it is all hopeless, who keep finding reasons why we cannot advance.
1. Toxic personalities who work diligently to hold mankind back by perpetuating confusions such as wars, healthcare systems that create patients rather than well people, crime, and those who seek to divide us rather than work out ways for us to work together.
Eliminating #1 could actually bring near imortality to mankind within a hundred years.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Sep 22, 2017 - 12:01pm PT
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Let me fix the order for you WTF...
1. Liquor
2. Sperm
3. Egg
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Sep 22, 2017 - 12:06pm PT
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What about Alpha Centauri going Type1a supernova? Life on earth would get "cooked" by the gamma radiation...wouldn't it?
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Sep 22, 2017 - 12:26pm PT
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There's an ark on the moon if we need it...
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Nuglet
Trad climber
Orange Murica!
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Sep 22, 2017 - 12:42pm PT
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4. permadraws
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Sep 22, 2017 - 01:34pm PT
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Barking dogs
Dottards
Rocket men
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Sep 22, 2017 - 02:06pm PT
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For earth, self replicating nano bots. Someone will eventually try to build a freeway with them and end up cementing the whole world over.
But then also being a gnome and having climbed with T. Gordon and Big Al I am good to go till the end of the world.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Sep 22, 2017 - 07:49pm PT
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We are always striving to take over the world. Never forget this...
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Sep 22, 2017 - 08:05pm PT
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gmones
whiskey
aliens
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Sep 22, 2017 - 09:22pm PT
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Thanks Ed...I have my weekend reading assignment.
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Sep 22, 2017 - 09:56pm PT
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Cosmic, you're a sad dude. And to think I felt some compassion for your health. No more. As the biggest Trumper on the forum you deserve it.
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