I used to have something similar. A big Addtronics server case. I think it was model 7896A, but my memory could be failing me there. It had, as a selling point, the ability to mount about 20 80mm fans without any modding. How times have changed.
Something very similar is already done in ol' Gemstone IV. Wander around town killing people and such, and you'll find yourself in the stocks answering questions while your victims amuse themselves by pelting you with fruit. It's a great system.
Hitler did indeed feel that Germany had failed him, and thus was worthy only of destruction. At the end he was pretty far gone.
However, I tend to doubt the plausibility of the creation of a bomb that only spreads radiation when radiation was so poorly understood. If they just wanted to sear the land and leave horrible lingering effects for years they had the means. They used them in WWI at Verdun and elsewhere. They were called chemical weapons.
One 'Hiroshima'-style bomb, designed to do damage with a massive explosion, changes nothing. There simply weren't any targets that the Germans could have hit to change the course of the war by '45. A detonation in Berlin would also have changed remarkably little. The city was quite effectively destroyed by the Red Army in the last days. It would have been rebuilt, as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were.
Indeed, because by '45 there were so many means at Germany's disposal to hit Los Alamos. And because they knew all about its location and its significance. That's why there were constant V2 strikes and bombing raids over New Mexico late in the war.
Different how, exactly? They WOULD have still lost the war. There's no 'likely' about it. One atomic bomb would have made remarkably little difference.
The material and manpower advantage of the allied armies and the Soviet Union in particular was utterly overwhelming by 1945.
As shocking as this may sound, there are still a fairly substantial number of people without high-speed internet access. Like the bulk of the internet users in Asia (Japan and a few other countries excluded), Africa, South/Central America, and a fair chunk of eastern Europe.
And that's ignoring all of the people in West Europe and North America who don't care enough to pay for more than dial-up. Or have more pressing concerns and can't afford it. Yes Virginia, they do exist.
I hate to break it to you, but countries with huge populations and miserable infrastructure like India, Russia, China, and company do count.
That's hard to tell, isn't it? Sucesses, by their very nature, cannot be seen except in the case of phenomenal sucesses (i.e., something on the order of catching Osama). It's only failures that get noticed.
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I used to have something similar. A big Addtronics server case. I think it was model 7896A, but my memory could be failing me there. It had, as a selling point, the ability to mount about 20 80mm fans without any modding. How times have changed.
"Fake Plastic Trees" is a Radiohead song.
Something very similar is already done in ol' Gemstone IV. Wander around town killing people and such, and you'll find yourself in the stocks answering questions while your victims amuse themselves by pelting you with fruit. It's a great system.
Somehow I doubt that.
The man was a vegetarian, after all.
Hitler did indeed feel that Germany had failed him, and thus was worthy only of destruction. At the end he was pretty far gone.
However, I tend to doubt the plausibility of the creation of a bomb that only spreads radiation when radiation was so poorly understood. If they just wanted to sear the land and leave horrible lingering effects for years they had the means. They used them in WWI at Verdun and elsewhere. They were called chemical weapons.
One 'Hiroshima'-style bomb, designed to do damage with a massive explosion, changes nothing. There simply weren't any targets that the Germans could have hit to change the course of the war by '45. A detonation in Berlin would also have changed remarkably little. The city was quite effectively destroyed by the Red Army in the last days. It would have been rebuilt, as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were.
Indeed, because by '45 there were so many means at Germany's disposal to hit Los Alamos. And because they knew all about its location and its significance. That's why there were constant V2 strikes and bombing raids over New Mexico late in the war.
Oh, wait.....
Different how, exactly? They WOULD have still lost the war. There's no 'likely' about it. One atomic bomb would have made remarkably little difference.
The material and manpower advantage of the allied armies and the Soviet Union in particular was utterly overwhelming by 1945.
Well, it certainly worked on me.
And the obligatory "Big Lebowski" joke sails right over everyone's head, apparently.
Wow. Modded 'Troll'. Some poor mod out there is in desperate need of a sense of humor.
As shocking as this may sound, there are still a fairly substantial number of people without high-speed internet access. Like the bulk of the internet users in Asia (Japan and a few other countries excluded), Africa, South/Central America, and a fair chunk of eastern Europe.
And that's ignoring all of the people in West Europe and North America who don't care enough to pay for more than dial-up. Or have more pressing concerns and can't afford it. Yes Virginia, they do exist.
I hate to break it to you, but countries with huge populations and miserable infrastructure like India, Russia, China, and company do count.
That's hard to tell, isn't it? Sucesses, by their very nature, cannot be seen except in the case of phenomenal sucesses (i.e., something on the order of catching Osama). It's only failures that get noticed.