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Would you press the button?

  • 30-08-2011 7:11pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 7,449 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Picture the scene. You're the president of a major superpower, suddenly all your screens start flashing at once. There's a barrage of intercontinental nuclear missiles heading towards your country from your rival superpower.

    These are all independent detection systems, so there's no doubt about it, you and your country is about to be annihalated. You have only a brief moment to make your decision. Do you strike back?

    Do you? 92 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    67% 62 votes
    Atari Jaguar
    32% 30 votes


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  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    4,8,15,16,23,42


    DeV.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Ah sure why not.


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,758 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    DeVore wrote: »
    4,8,15,16,23,42


    Des.
    FYP! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Well if everyone is going to be killed anyway you might as well go out fighting.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Nope. If I was President of a super power, I would probably deserve it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    I'd press all three buttons and then dial that shiz...

    'Hello Garda, do you have a spare minute?'.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭Antisocialiser


    Not with nuclear missiles. Just blast with piss.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Picture the scene. You're the president of a major superpower, suddenly all your screens start flashing at once. There's a barrage of intercontinental nuclear missiles heading towards your country from your rival superpower.

    These are all independent detection systems, so there's no doubt about it, you and your country is about to be annihalated. You have only a brief moment to make your decision. Do you strike back?

    If i know for an absolute certainty?

    Yes, of course i do.

    But i make sure at least one missile hits the Vatican.


  • Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭B_Fanatic


    ... I'm the only person that said no? Then again... Is it an evil superpower? Maybe I should so there are none left


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Yes I would. Die in the last ditch and all that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    Yes I would. Die in the last ditch and all that.

    What if the missile was on direct course with Harryville/Tigers bay etc :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Would you like to play again?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Doublechinlolz


    This thread is stupid.. That story was stupid.. The poll was stupid.. But i voted yes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    You haven't told us what the button does?:confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Picture the scene. You're the president of a major superpower, suddenly all your screens start flashing at once. There's a barrage of intercontinental nuclear missiles heading towards your country from your rival superpower.

    These are all independent detection systems, so there's no doubt about it, you and your country is about to be annihalated. You have only a brief moment to make your decision. Do you strike back?

    I'd detonate the missiles in my own country. Rob him of his victory. Plus immortality as a ****ing cretin.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Ghandee wrote: »
    What if the missile was on direct course with Harryville/Tigers bay etc :eek:
    :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭McCruiskeen


    You are the president of a superpower. You have done something to piss off another superpower to such an extent that they are willing to wipe out the human race just to get back at you.

    You are obviously a stubborn cock.

    You are obviously gonna push the button!.


  • Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭bazza1


    Blast them with....nah...press the button! Twice!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    You haven't told us what the button does?:confused:

    He did, he said it strikes back. I chose yes, by the way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,919 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    press this button

    www.instantrimshot.com


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    The only winning move is not to play!


  • Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭orangebud


    Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станислав Евграфович Петров; born c. 1939) is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who deviated from standard Soviet protocol by correctly identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm on September 26, 1983.[1] This decision may have prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its Western allies. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had malfunctioned.

    cheers mate


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭DjFlin


    If I'm going out, I'm taking as many people with me as possible. Innocent or not. I don't want to get lonely in Hell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    Happen to Borris Yeltsin in 1995 , he picked no.

    The incident started when a team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from the Andøya Rocket Range off the northwest coast of Norway
    As the rocket climbed, it was detected by the Olenegorsk early warning radar station in Russia. To the radar operators, the rocket appeared similar in speed and flight pattern to a U.S. submarine-launched Trident missile, leading the Russian military to initially misinterpret the rocket's trajectory as representing the precursor to a possible attack by missiles from submarines.
    This event resulted in a full alert being passed up through the military chain of command all the way to President Boris Yeltsin, who was notified immediately and the "nuclear briefcase" (known in Russia as Cheget) used to authorize nuclear launch was automatically activated. It is reported that President Boris Yeltsin activated his "nuclear keys" for the first time in his tenure. No warning was issued to the Russian populace of any incident; it was reported in the news a week afterward.
    Russian doctrine reportedly allowed Yeltsin ten minutes from the time of detection to decide on a course of action. Russian observers were quickly able to determine that the rocket was heading away from Russian airspace and was not a threat. Reports differ greatly as to whether or not Yeltsin came close to authorizing an attack, but the general consensus is that Yeltsin was able to conclude that there was no basis for attack, and therefore no danger. The rocket fell to earth as planned.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,449 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Personally I wouldn't. I've nothing to gain from it, and it'd just cause more human suffering.

    But don't tell them that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    '' We'll fight them on the beachs '' ....

    What ...you mean there will be no beaches left to fight on ? :eek:

    If time allowed , I would try change the trajectory of my missiles so as to collide with the incoming ones in the hope that it would lessen the the % of population killed but with only minutes to make a decision that's not going to be easy .


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I'd press the button the second they made me prez, just in case like...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Would you like to play again?
    sorry, i meant


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