Super Weapons
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Super Weapons of Sci-Fi
Sci-fi often shows us a micro black hole mostly wouldn't do anything to a star for instance but a neutron star certainly would if we could dump either through a wormhole or any other version of teleportation. A super weapon might be a fairly mundane transporter like we see in Star Trek just when able to beam nuclear bombs from your magazines into an enemy ship or bunker the Asgard used this trick against the Wraith in Stargate Atlantis. Anything that just ignores armhole shields is arguably a super weapon even if the payload is very mundane after all the simple stone arrowhead teleported into your supreme leader's head works wonders for changing his mind. So too brainwashing machines represent a type of super weapon
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