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Overpopulation?
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[@baaa838]

"with this sacred treasure i summon, the sun"

[@quantemwensday]

sunny d unleash the power of the sun

[@RockyX123]

布瑠部由良由良、無限爆発太陽

[@silverseth7]

"here comes the sun, Doot do doo do Dooo"

[@taetannim3581]

Aliens: We're here to enslave you, truly you are blessed- Humans: KILL IT WITH NUCLEAR FIRE!

[@Goulmy86]

The only correct response

[@mac-gyver1152]

Control alt delete

[@luzifershadres]

"We havent heard since a week from the general. Should we check on him?" "No need for that. He is an absolute expert and you will see his succses in 80 years when the colonist arrive. You know what? We both will go with them to celebrate." `80 years later` "Sir, did we send 20 capital ships and instructed them to build a giant railgun at the local stars heliosphere?"

[@oskark312]

of corse not

[@DeathclawJedi]

@@oskark312 General their back. Good! I've been meaning to scheduled a field test for the new plutonium tipped tungsten rod ammo. Fire when ready. Sir I swear if that thing doesn't blow up in the rail gun it's likely to take the moon out with the xenos. Should be a hellova light show. How did you ever make general sir?

[@peterwarner553]

Can you imagine the titanic efforts we'd put into science and space after that?

[@theabomb8305]

NASA getting DOD funding

[@skullyboi1215]

@@theabomb8305 at that point NASA and the DOD would be combined.

[@halogeek6]

ive said it before ill say it again. only reason humaity isnt already a multistar civilaztion is becuase there isnt any alien poonany. once we know hot alien coochie is there all bets are off. thats the real reason aliens wont talk to us.

[@halogeek6]

@@skullyboi1215 just gonna pretend space force doesnt exist huh? its basicly nasa combined with the dod with the best and brighttest from airforce.

[@mycroft16]

@peterwarner553 yeah would be Apollo all over again. That was technically a military project as it was done specifically to put Russia in its place. When Kennedy announced it we hadn't even put anything into orbit yet. And Russia beat us with a dog and Yuri Gagarin to orbit. NASA's Apollo program budget was 4% of the total US budget. About $182 billion per year in today's money (NASA gets about $20 billion a year now, total). Apollo employed over 400,000 people as well.

[@toasega]

The thing I like about a lot of these stories is that we, the readers (or "humans"), can immediately identify things within the story without being directly told. Like "oh, everyone is pulling out? yeah, that's nukes incoming".

[@frozenheartedgiant8330]

TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING!!!!

[@darrinwebber4077]

Yes. Just have to adjust these target coordinates...

[@marvinjohnson2488]

Here come the sun!

[@craziedanimescientist9163]

Yeap lmao I love that older battle of new york story.. the aliens leader who was trying to help us(humans) fight off their enemy who they were at war with. Thinking that we humans were crazy, talking about out "secret fleet". Him thinking they were all going to die but these crazy humans just kept saying "get them all together, low over the water". Instantly it was so obvious what the plan was and what the secret fleet was..😂

[@dandrewtsinnijinnie4504]

It just reminds me of Godzilla when they did that and of World in Conflict ​@@craziedanimescientist9163

[@TheLastRhapsody]

“Rockets would be as effective as throwing pebbles at a charging beast.” My dear general J’tuc, may I interest you in one of humanity’s oldest ballistic weapons, the sling. You would be surprised what a small rock can do when moving at the same or greater speed than the charging beast and cracking it right between the eyes.

[@mycroft16]

@TheLastRhapsody I find it worrying that the basic principle of kinetic energy seems to have been missing from alien schooling. Fast thing has much energy. Faster thing has more. Faster thing hit do big damage.

[@TheLastRhapsody]

@@mycroft16 If I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, they’ve had a period where armor rendered ballistics ineffective and moved on to lasers. But as ballistics fell out of use, so did the countermeasure against it. The only thing that remained is the impression that ballistics are inferior to lasers.

[@nocount7517]

Turns out, an object designed to survive atmospheric re-entry can probably survive a heat ray with little issue.

[@-MeatsOfEvil-]

Oops😏

[@GrigoriZhukov]

Probably, maybe.

[@mycroft16]

@@nocount7517 hypersonic atmospheric reentry through a fairly thick atmosohere no less.

[@Neteruk]

This is possibly the funniest comment I have ever read on KZbin. Conversely, it is also true. I always wondered why people think energy based weapons were at the top of things. You can literally disperse a laser with a few bits of sand and water, very stupid weapons IMO. Great tech though, for other more reasonable avenues.

[@Chrisspru]

they had the chance to play startrek, now they are playing 40k. thanks for the starship technology. we'll return the favour

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

If you thought the toaster wars was fun, this will be bigger and better.

[@-MeatsOfEvil-]

Humans: disappear from battlefield suddenly. Alien commander: what's happening??? Final Boss music: starts to play......

[@wolfoffenris9951]

😂new objektive, fight the sun

[@butyumean3830]

What would the boss music of humanity be?

[@mycroft16]

@@butyumean3830 "The Only Think They Fear is You" by Mick Gordon from the DOOM Eternal soundtrack.

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

@@wolfoffenris9951 Difficulty: Impossible.

[@vodamiinurl1337]

Humans: *fall back to minimum safe distance* Aliens: "They're retreating! We won! What's that music?" Humans: "Here comes the sun~!"

[@MartyrPandaGaming]

This is why you don't bring a flashlight to a rock fight. Throwing rocks harder, faster and deadlier than anything else is kind of our thing.

[@mycroft16]

You get something going fast enough and kinetic energy becomes quite magical in its effects. We're scary good at that.

[@georgebulbakwa9017]

Meanwhile, somewhere in the 40k verse, a guardsman regiment nervously holds their lazguns while an ork Rok drops from the sky.

[@adamsharon]

" They all started leaving. Running away as fast as possible. I wonder why. " " DID SOMEONE SAY NUCLEAR BOMB?! "

[@wolfoffenris9951]

@adamsharon everybody is a gangster untill the monkeys start thowing nukes

[@Rawkit_Surgeon]

Oh, look! A common enemy.

[@McKavian]

And in 100 years, we'll be knocking at their back door.

[@fieryfoxboy]

lol welp that point after the celebration Humanity would look at those destroyed wrecks and go “LOOT THAT BODY!” And NASA and military funding will go through the roof and no one would be mad about it.

[@Yonkage-ik5qb]

Aliens: We have come to colonize. You will worship us as gods. Humans: I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes. These fuckin' aliens mean to harm us, and they got ta' go! So come on nuke 'em now! You picked the wrong planet to fuck around with its human crew. Oh oh! There's no escapin' it. Will vaporize you. Here's what we're gonna do~ _rocket launching noises_ Me and my race are gonna mess you up! (you rolled a 1, you rolled a 1) You're *FUCKED* !

[@spectralstriker]

I do find it kinda funny that that is exactly right. The only time humans aren’t mad at their government is when they are going to war for a just cause.

[@dadudeme]

Here comes the sun

[@skeletonsandbutterflies1569]

Do do do do ~~🎶

[@-MeatsOfEvil-]

And it's alright! (Unless you're a Xeno)

[@glassramen]

"Where are all the humans going? Why are they all running away?" *New objective: Survive*

[@MizuMing]

They F'd around and found out.

[@evanreynolds5386]

And thous the Imperium of Man was born

[@atomicskull6405]

What was described was a three stage fission-fusion-fission device like the Tsar Bomba not a regular fission-> fusion device. The third plutonium metal stage undergoes fast fission my means of the neutrons generated by the second stage, the third stage is basically a supercharged atomic bomb with a buttload of extra neutons reflected into the plutonium so it undergoes much more complete fission and generates more energy than the previous two stages combined. The rerally scary thing is that the Tsar Bomba as designed was meant to be 100+ megatons, but the soviets got nervous and dialed it back to 50, and even then it was still more like 60 megatons.

[@groofromtheup5719]

its frightening that we ever had a "Oops, that was a bigger boom than we expected" much less that happening multiple times.

[@spectralstriker]

@@groofromtheup5719there was also a time the USA sent a nuke into space, people looked up into the sky expecting to see a small explosion, and suddenly night turned to day for over 60 square miles.

[@WornWire]

"Clearly they underestimated the final boss of planet earth known as America." (Was quoting somebody)

[@atomicskull6405]

That fission -> fusion -> fission design that is described at the end was pioneered by the soviets with the Tsar Bomba fyi. It works by piggybacking an additional atomic stage onto the chain with a neutron reflector that channels the neutrons from the second fusion stage into the third fission stage so you get a supercharged atomic explosion due to much more complete fission (more mass converted to energy) than would otherwise be possible, the third stage in such a device exceeds the energy output of the previous two stages combined because plutonium has much higher energy density than hydrogen, or really just about any other fuel.

[@frozenheartedgiant8330]

I believe that would be Russian badger from his video on earth defence force 5

[@DanJones-np8xb]

FISSIONABLE energy. Not chemical potential, or thermal release.

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

what happened next? I want a follow up where we see the aliens reaction and the humans reverse engineering the scraps left behind.

[@reven199]

Followed by introducing them to the new star we created where there capital planet once was. Such a lovely gift we give them for giving us the gift of space travel.

[@USS_Grey_Ghost]

Sabaton PREPARE FOR NUCLEAR ATTACK plays on repeat

[@ianpgmusicfanfictionart]

Nuclear missiles, go brrrrr.

[@Arlington0588]

More like BOOM!!!1!!!111!!!!11!

[@deepdragon2]

no that is the A10 that goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.....

[@mycroft16]

@ianpgmusicfanfictionart Spin up the Minuteman fleet and the Tridents.

[@attila535]

*NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED.*

[@Mountain_bonker]

Lets gooo NetNarrator posted while im at work. W day

[@goatkiller666]

Nice to find an author who can actually talk about the mechanics of our nukes. How fission created fusion. How MERV works.

[@Mojo_3.14]

I do wonder what grade that humans will get now that they have destroyed a whole fleet of them aliens. And how long it will take them to realize their little conquest went fubar.

[@mysteriousmemethief]

30,000 megatons of deterrent

[@wstavis3135]

I laugh at the notion that Sol is a "moderately sized sun/star." FYI, our sun is in the top 10% size wise. It is actually something of a giant. I additonally despise the idiocy of "overpopulation" trope foisted by believers of Paul Ehrlich and Malthus.

[@R3demptionzz]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that the person who wrote this story knew absolutely nothing about Earth's practical or theoretical carrying capacity. 8 billion is laughably easily sustainable on a planet like ours.

[@EeBee51]

The "overpopulation" was the opinion of the Khlourians, not the opinion of the author.....

[@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc]

Yeah but the largest stars make our sun look like a dot on a piece of paper

[@R3demptionzz]

@@EeBee51 The author was parroting a common trope. I'm willing to accept that they may not believe it, however, there are many people who falsely believe the Earth is overpopulated.

[@joshuafischer684]

​@R3demptionzz In-universe, the Khlorians could be a race that didn't develop agriculture and animal husbandry to the same level of sophistication as humanity has. In turn, that would limit their population numbers on a traditional Malthusian scale. Humanity, in this universe, could basically have taken the "hard mode" challenge by spending untold millennia brute-forcing genetic engineering on plants and animals to make a population of 8 billion entirely feasible.

[@Darkinu2]

4th! Once again Xenos underestimate our capacity to unite.

[@Di3Leberwurst]

@25:10 Well not the brightest tool in the shed are we? 3 ships one gone leaves 2 ships where would they aim their missiles? A three year old could guess correct.

[@mycroft16]

All 3 were gone leaving 12.

[@nocount7517]

@@Di3Leberwurst There were 15 ships, not 5. A 3-year-old could figure that out by listening.

[@widdershins5383]

It’s horrifying that such destruction is held in objects one can hold in their hand. Not hands, plural. Hand. Singular. That’s so fucked.

[@Nempo13]

Well yes and no. You COULD hold the object in your hand...but you would die from the radiation even without it going off.

[@widdershins5383]

@@Nempo13 not true, the scientists were fucking around with the original demon core with no protection….until they dropped it and flashed them…THEN they died.

[@mycroft16]

@widdershins5383 there's more energy in your hand if you go with fusion, than there is in your average nuke. Chew on that one for a bit.

[@andrewdavis1022]

Come forth in meet the new dawn the enemy of man

[@sethrainey7105]

This gets me so turnt! Is there more?

[@neroham93]

Part 2 lets fucking boogaloo

[@rustycowell7264]

And these crazies have 15,000 of those rockets

[@summerstride752]

By far one of my favourite ones yet.

[@tudogeo7061]

Malthus and Ehrlich may have been Khlourian plants.

[@EeBee51]

One of my favourite HFY stories... Thankyou :)

[@radioactiveassassin5218]

9:44 Oh we understood alright. We just didn't agree.

[@phame1225]

Ah, the primordial flame: War

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

All they had were 15 million soldiers? Get on my level.

[@madi4642]

AND they are so slow to realise that they might be target after the first one got baptised in sun spit. well they were a good target practice... their should be a follow up on what happened to the hegemony.

[@CarlosRodriguezVon-SamosadeAqu]

I am not sure that we would be considering our salvation with a series of EMP of that size frying everything on the planet.

[@ponocni1]

Maybe not salvation, but we would survive. Would beat reverse decimated and rest turned into slaves.

[@mycroft16]

They were in a high orbit. We have a pretty nifty planetary magnetic field that routinely redirects actual physical waves of 10s of billions of tons of solar plasma as well as high energy gamma and x rays. These bombs were nothing.

[@Exania88]

better a temporery shutdown then a permanent end

[@mycroft16]

@user-uo7wd4yd2c keep in mind that we have detonated nuclear bombs in orbit before. Operation Starfish for example. It ionized the upper atmosphere for a bit which usually causes low frequency radio blackouts over an area (solar storms and flare impacts do the same thing btw). But our magnetic field redirects EMPs. A solar flare spits out billions of tons of charged particles. Electrically charged plasma. Same exact thing a nuclear bomb is. Our magnetic field takes most of it and redirects the energy to the magnetic tail of the planet where it short circuits and a lot of it just goes out into space. Enough remains though that it flows back down the magnetic field lines to the poles. That electric current excites the molecules in the air (O3, O2, and N2). As the electrons in those molecules release that energy they do so as light. Making the aurora borealis. Harmlessly releasing that energy as light. Our biggest nukes are pathetic compared to a small solar flare even. The magnetic field handled it with ease. There was no EMP in Hawaii which they detonated it over. The ionisphere, thermosphere, and ozone layers absorbed the gamma and x rays (which they do from the Sun 24/7 for 4.5 billion years now). For example the May 10 series of 6 massive flares that were aimed right at us... they hit hard. They compressed the magnetic field a bunch as it absorbed the pressure from the impact. All those gamma and x rays absorbed by the upper atmosphere heated it. Gas expands as it heats. So the atnosohere moved out a few miles which put additional drag on low earth satellites like Starlink. Just over 5,000 satellites had to use their maneuvering thrusters to maintain orbit while the atmosphere cooled over a few hours. We monitor for flares actively to warn satellite owners/operators of incoming waves of high energy particles as they cause static buildup on satellites. So they will put them in safe modes for an hour or two. The vital electronics are kept in EM hardened protective layers so the satellite doesn't get fried. The sheer amount of crap the sun flung at is cause Pacific wide low and high frequency radio blackouts for hours. Ham radio operators saw massive increases in the distances they could reach because ionized atmosphere becomes a mirror for radio signals. As the huge electric currents came back down to the planet ground and space based monitoring saw significant ground charging meaning the ground was picking up lots of electricity dumped into the air that caused those huge auroras. Back in the early 00s another huge solar storm did the same. Amd all that electricity tripped power plant circuit breakers and transformers all over new England. NYC, Toronto, Quebec all went dark for 6 to 8 hours while crews had to reset and replace tons of equipment. Since the. Protective systems are in place and they are alerted ahead of events like this as well. Power stayed on this time. There is also the fact that fusion produces radiation of a different sort than fission. The fission devices used to trigger the fusion bombs are small. And fusion creates tritium (12 year half life) in small amounts which dissipates quickly and helium, inert noble gas. Creates a lot of neutrons but atnosohere absorbs those. Earth is pretty well protected from anything but stellar level events on a pretty significant scale. Our biggest nukes don't even release the amount of energy a medium sized hurricane does. Supercell thunderstorms contain more energy than nukes. Let's not even get into major quakes or volcanic eruptions.

[@calebtice6668]

The risk of EMP weapons is overblown. There are reasons pretty much everyone abandoned the idea. One is that just like a normal explosion the effective power drops exponentially the farther you are from the source. Second is that pretty much everything even slightly important has some degree of EMP resistance built in. Also a ton of nukes going off in orbit is like a fart in the wind compared to a geomagnetic storm caused by a coronal mass ejection.

[@Telawin]

I was imagining a story of "all it takes is one captured fighter ship for us to reverse engineer"

[@YangHajime]

If a pre-FTL species, upon seeing massive spaceships goes "Welcome" Instead of praying or cowering, that's usually the first sign that you probably won't be able to land.

[@zekiah2]

So anyway, that’s why I’m voting Raytheon this election season

[@demon_xd_]

I feel like I've seen this story before, is this a reupload?

[@frydguy2331]

There's only 87k followers. I think the old one got deleted

[@richardbrowning7197]

It's also been done by other channels

[@greenleafnerfing4749]

in the words of a wise man: "if rabbits could make the whole planet rabbits, they would" ...or was it ants?

[@aretailcashier450]

“With the fires of creation i forage your death”

[@sleeping2696]

A force of nature

[@t1tanfallpr025]

Here comes the sun 🎵

[@astartes2781]

And now we are angry.

[@1997-enjoyer]

Updooting all Real Human Narration!

[@rouge601]

*fortunate son intensifies*

[@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc]

So will there be a sequel ??

[@slavking992]

Someone scored 2500 points in a match of Warthunder💥💀 (Is it still 2500?)

[@simdimdim]

I'm the end it's just a temporary respite

[@bernardrednix756]

can nuclear bomb even penetrate energy shields?

[@mycroft16]

@bernardrednix756 Yes. 100% yes. An energy shield is electric. If you dump that much electromagnetic energy into it instantaneously, you short it out completely, leaving the thermal, pressure, and hard radiation free to utterly destroy what was protected.

[@KacperBanasiuk]

A classic, old American W-51 Warhead has like 5 Mega Tons of TNT power, an can be carried by a single Minuteman rocket. it can glass everything from Washington to Boston, completly wrecking New York. Even if you have 10 kilometers long Space Drednought, it can't survive this much. And there are more powerful warheads, Car Bomba had 50-58 Mega Tons.

[@spectralstriker]

There isn’t much a nuclear missile can’t penetrate

[@bernardrednix756]

@@spectralstriker independence day say otherwise

[@spectralstriker]

@@bernardrednix756 yeah, well basic physics will always beat the bricks off of movie logic XD when starships become capable of flying through the sun, that will be when they will be able to survive a nuclear warhead.

[@willgallatin2802]

Same model of rockets were sending terrans to their moon 50 odd years ago. So, yea high Earth orbit is doable.

[@shadowfiresword]

Yippie kai yey you alien mofos!

[@Michael_Brock]

I see what inbound (probably seen elsewhere) FAFO exeno scum! 😊

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

"all the humans are leaving" oh there about to nuke em "gather all the exterminators back up" thanks for making us use less nukes I suppose! 20:50 well, not like you told us that! (not like we would have listened, but you still didn't tell us.)

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

also btw, it was a bit stupid to nuke ALL the ships, can't re-engineer slag metal (I think)

[@jefftitterington7600]

Almost a Pyrrhic victory, considering fallout and damage from the EMP generated by the nuclear devices. Regardless, it would be hard to rebuild.

[@nocount7517]

@@jefftitterington7600 A lot of countries have actually hardened their grids against EMPs.

[@captiancholera8459]

That and unless the planet was entirely saturated with them in groundburst mode we would be back in business in fairly short order. Modern nuclear weapons are “cleaner” in the sense that they effectively consume more nuclear material during the reaction, which in turn leaves less nuclear material in the air. And considering these guys are in orbit, at most there’s some very mild extra background radiation for a few months and some energy grids go down, in more developed nations, most of their grids are hardened against solar flares and EMP, in less developed nations, major assistance would be needed in getting those grids back up, all in all, humanity as a whole get off pretty easy in this one.

[@mycroft16]

@jefftitterington7600 no. Our atmosphere and magnetic field protect us from far far worse from the Sun all the time. The solar storm just 2 .months ago dumped more gamma, x ray, aloha and beta particles, and charged electrons into our atmosphere than every nuke humanity possesses could. It didn't do a damn thing to us but give us pretty night sky lights. We ha e detonated nukes in space before. Operation Starfish over Hawaii. Impressive light display and nothing more. What we deal with 24/7 for 4m5 billion years from the Sun is orders of magnitude more powerful. No EMPs not shorts, no mass radiation and death. Orbital fusions devices would be nothing more than pretty lights that would fade out over a few minutes.

[@johnk949]

SG1

[@Sum-kj8jo]

17:17 😂😁😎 Mriv

[@thee_number_six6227]

I thought this was a reupload,

[@galahad626]

If other aliens see them and their they are gods hums see them and think kill the gods

[@Mountain_bonker]

first

[@berndbernd3464]

Learn how to pronounce words

[@twoblackhands]

ET came a knock and we kicked his ass.

[@HoNkYforLiFe1]

Long winded

[@pauldiaz9440]

Here comes the sun