Stargate Atlantis Nuclear Strike HQ

[Bobby3OOO]

I found the sound on this sequence -- off the discs, that is -- to have sounded really underwhelming on my system. It SHOULD be a bass-test, no? I mean -- 230 gigatons is a lot of boooom.

[Xershade]

I kinda love the logic they use here,

"Let's piss off the already pissed machines by nuking them."

[Equalizerized]

This total scene cost approx. 12.9million US dollars to create.

[LoboalphaMASTER]

@Equalizerized REALLY??? 8O

[PSNGunsofFreedom]

Nuke them from orbit......

Its the only way to be sure

[thakillman7]

the cylons wanted the Colonies whole. if they used Horizon Weapons Platforms, the colonies would've been useless for hundreds and hundreds of years. the little tactical nukes they used are much more efficient and MUCH cleaner

[slickit86]

@irontusk341 I see, didnt hear that part i guess.Good catch though.

[slickit86]

6 warheads? look to me like 10 little missiles came out of the initial rocket. But perhaps I just cant count.

[irontusk341]

@slickit86 6 live warheads 4 decoys... thats what it said on the show

[Nomoreidsleft]

@irontusk341 Except they guy at the end said, "Detonation confirmation, on all six warheads..". (Was it Mackay?) Self inconsistency, in the writing.

[generalmushroom]

@slickit86 Watch the episode. 4 are decoys.

[guyonfire87]

hahaha dont fuck with earth or we will drop tonns of radioactive nukes on u

[Zappina]

Yeah but i like typing on my new keyboard XD

[tomnow92]

one shot, one planet

[Arancaytar]

"It's the only way to be sure!"

[evilmasterful]

kind of scary that it is quite possible today to make a nuke with a 200+ megaton payload. The tsar bomba in the 1960's was capable of a 100 megaton explosion but they only used half of its payload due to the implications of firing such a massive charge.

[brightNico1]

So they destroyed the ships on the replicator home world. I saw it on TV. Why din't my ancient friend use it to destroy the Earth? I'm telling them!

[Thecoverab]

I wish that they nuced the Tok'ra instead. Those snakes pisses me off >:-(

[lemansky91]

the United States have similare nukes LGM-118 Peacekeepers.,.,.,.,

[PatrioticAnarchist93]

the series would b really boring if all the sg ships were armed with such powerful nuclear weapons lol look out hive ships

[Usul573]

One sided stuff is a bad idea.

[CobaltX07]

The Horizon contains six mark IX naquadriah enhanced warheads, according to numbers I got from a calculation system using the 100 mile total destruction comment gave the yield of each device at 230 gigagtons. Dropping bombs of such power on the middle east will destroy the whole region and the surrounding areas. The fallout will blanket West Europe (East will be destroyed) and most of what is left of China and Russia, killing billions. Essentially, such a bomb should never be used on Earth.

[MDKcde]

They should be dropped on the 13 colonies of Kobol-oh wait...

[Halo1Pokemon1Master]

@MDKcde As I commented on another video, what the Cylons did to the Colonies with 50+ ships and 300+ nukes, we can do with a single MIRV.

[Zappina]

@CobaltX07 230 gigatons?Lol that not only destroy the middle east.It can ignite the atmosphere but even if it doesnt the earthquakes,fires and fallout would kill us quick.The trillions of tons of radioactive dust will cover the sun all over the world within a month.It would be mankind's last mistake.

[CobaltX07]

@Zappina 230 gigatons is actually the super-low-yield calculation for the Mark IX, even so, most estimates put the Horizon Bomb's total yield (6 Mark IXs) as 1/10 that of the asteroid that wiped out the dinoasurs.

[Zappina]

@CobaltX07 yeah nice and all but there is 3 difference between an asteroid and a thermonuclear(or naquadriah thermonuclear) device.First of all that asteroids doesnt generate so much heat that ignite things hundred miles away so thats why they cannot ignite the atmosphere.Their damage mostly the kinetic energy from a high speed impact the dust and the earthquakes are after effects however those effects are devastating too.The second things is the radioactivity.I guess asteroids could be....

[Zappina]

@CobaltX07 ....radioactive a little but they arent create radioactive dust which is the most destructive after effect of a nuclear weapon(but that has no effect on the replicators).Third thing is asteroids are actually fall to the ground(captain obvious :D ) but nuclear weapons arent because they are detonated in mid air to maximise the effects.Asteroid impacts are creating more earthquakes but their damaging range are lesser.And four:If what we know about the dinosaurs they are much more....

[Zappina]

@CobaltX07 ...tougher than humans so that means we can die from lesser damage.

[CobaltX07]

@Zappina You know that with the asteroid comparison I meant purely in terms of the energy released right?

[teencomment]

Holy crap, I bet if that was used on Earth in a war the United States would win really fast!

[synx111]

Along with screwing over the ecosystem

[Jackneill45]

you don't win with nukes that size. That is their whole purpose. Read the MAD doctrine for a idea on moderen nuclear war.

[Nomoreidsleft]

@Jackneill45 MAD does not apply in interplanetary warfare. The destruction is not mutual, because it's confined to the enemy's planet. The only problem with this attack, was that it was too limited, and ineffectual. Although they destroyed the known threat of the ships under construction, they underestimated the extent of the enemy's ability to retaliate.

[Jackneill45]

@Nomoreidsleft read the post I was responding to. The dude was discussing using a Horizon on Earth. Thus my statement still stands as accurate.

[YotJoey]

Rather, the Earth will self destruct within minutes, the United States would not escape the fall out of a nuke of this size.

[theshadowbehindme]

lol the earth will not be destroyed madya humanity but this planet will keep rotating

[DomWeasel]

@theshadowbehindme

In the immortal words of George Carlin "The planet isn't going anywhere. WE are!"