NationStates Jolt Archive

What is it?

katana duh, havnt you ever watched japanime?

The opposable thumb.

AK-47

failing that, yea the opposable thumb

Human compassion destroys all. Who needs "feelings" anyway?

Sure the a-bomb, opposable thumb and katana blades are all deadly weapons, but an anti-matter bomb would have to be the deadliest and most unstable weapon of all time. You see when anti-matter and matter meet, they anhilate each other releasing energy with 100% efficency (as opposed to uranium which is <10% efficent) a single grain could wipe out NY city in seconds :eek:

Religion

The human mind, without it the others wouldn't exist or be of much use.

neutron bomb.....neutralizes all life and leaves land virtually unscathed....

or perhaps a woman's wrath

Dog poo on a stick.

The Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit.

Or a Matter-Anti-Matter device. You can't argue with the power of God. He gets virgins pregnent, creates universes, and wipes out cities at a whim.

The invention of the rifle has (and continues to) changed the face of war.

The human mind.

board with nail in it

Think of all the STD's spread by our (men's) wangs.

The human mind.
I second this

The rifle has killed more human beings than any other single weapon in the history of mankind. The AK-47 alone...

Well, in all non-seriousness, the scissors of death.

http://img136.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img136&image=scissorsofdoom7pk.jpg

In all seriousness, I'd say a nuclear bomb.

It has to be the board with the nail.

How many times have you heard about survivors of board with nail attacks?
I bet its a lot less than gunshots survivors.

I AM THE DEADLIEST WEAPON!! MUHAHAHA!!!

just in front of mayonaise

1. Biological Weapons. The US has stuff stored that can destroy practically all the human race if they ever got out.

2. Russian 200 megaton hydrogen warhead. This bitch can rip four US states if dropped right in a high altitude blast.

3. The knife, slipped between more ribs than anything in history. The oldest weapon and still used by armies today.

4. The firearm in all it's mutations, including the ICBM tipped with that 200 megaton Russian super bomb.

Religion
Nice. I'm gonna branch out and say 'deception'. One, of course, could make the case that religion belongs there.

Life is by far the most lethal thing in existance.

Manipulation of the public's psyche.

Dog poo on a stick.

He's right ya know..

Human curiousity.

The New US Gay Bomb.

See the thread

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=389227

an 18 year old kid whose just watched his buddies mowed down......

I say other because without human inventivness (spellcheck) that list wouldn't exist.

I'd have to say that hands down the most potentially lethal weapon made by man was the Anthrax biogenic products developed by the Soviets. Imagine having the capability to in one dispersal wipe out two thrids of the earth's human population. That's how lethal the Soviet-grade Anthrax was, and they were pumping out some 4,000 metric tons of it every year during the Cold War. It was so scary that the head of the program sabotaged it and fled to the US.

Second most potentially lethal I'd say was the Doomsday Device, a proposal submitted to Krushchev to fill an entire oil tanker with fissile material and detonate it as a contingency should Communism fall. It was so horrific even Krushchev dismissed the idea.


Scariest weapon ever developed: The Tsar Bomba, a 100 Mega-ton fusion bomb developed and tested by the Soviets in 1961. They dropped it over the Arctic circle and it blew out windows 500 miles away in Norway and Sweden! There's a picture of it here: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Tsarbmb.jpg

Language: it's used to convince young men to attack and kill other young men, young women, children, mothers, fathers and the elderly... along with every other atrocity that goes along with war.

The biological and chemical weapons. Why?

The atomic bomb, while devastating, has no long term effects. Japan is up to speed after two atomic bombs within one generation.

Now a biological weapons can have much longer term effects. Spread a plague or blight into a nation's resources (water, food) and you've ruined pretty much everything targeted. Infect somebody with a new strain of plague and send them into a highly populated city to cause an epidemic, people who are infected but haven't experienced symptoms traveling from city to city and spread it further. Massive amounts of Kurds in Iraq died when anthrax was spread around them. Something on a larger scale could prove devastating as well.

Love is the deadliest weapon.
Do you know the story of Lysistrate? ;)

I looked at the list of names that voted "Other" and it would have applied for a list of the coolest people on NS.

The Pen... while all those weapons can kill a person, they can kill that person only once. The pen can kill them a thousand times.

Ummm ... geeze ... I mean it, people ... dog poo on a stick ...

You get some dog poo on a stick and you will get anything you want ... I promise.

"Deadly" is relative.

The biological and chemical weapons. Why?

The atomic bomb, while devastating, has no long term effects. Japan is up to speed after two atomic bombs within one generation.




Couple a things.

One, Military analyists will say that there isnt anything you can do with biological weapons that you cant do better with conventional/nuclear ones.

Two, you ever hear of Radioactive fallout?
You drop a nuke on something...you pretty much ruin the spot for the next 50 years.

Bananas are quite deadly, don't you think? "This banana is really a gun."

Biological weapons.

The only time, and I mean the ONLY time that population growth of humanity has stopped has been during the black plague outbreak in Europe.

You have to consider how likely it is to happen when you consider how deadly a weapon is. Giant Nuclear weapons may have a higher potential for destruction, but in the long run, more deaths are going to be caused by epidemics, natural or man-made.

Propoganda. Poison the mind, and they'll march of a cliff when you order them.

Some of you are close to right.

Man -

not just the mind - though the mind maybe the measure of the man ( and can you tell me who said that?)

not just the opposable thumb- though it helps us maintain our precarious edge over felines.

not just our inventiveness ( all you bio weapon and bomb supporters - just remember man invented them )

not just the pen - for a pen with out a thumb, and a mind and inventiveness is just a tube with dark goo in it

not compassion, for compassion is only part of the whole.

but us, man as a species, a whole, we are the deadliest weapon ever.

Some of you are close to right.

Man -

not just the mind - though the mind maybe the measure of the man ( and can you tell me who said that?)

not just the opposable thumb- though it helps us maintain our precarious edge over felines.

not just our inventiveness ( all you bio weapon and bomb supporters - just remember man invented them )

not just the pen - for a pen with out a thumb, and a mind and inventiveness is just a tube with dark goo in it

not compassion, for compassion is only part of the whole.

but us, man as a species, a whole, we are the deadliest weapon ever.Ahh, but without the brain, man will just sit, poop, and drool. so it's the brain that is the greatest weapon.

Ahh, but without the brain, man will just sit, poop, and drool. so it's the brain that is the greatest weapon.

Well without the body the brain would be pretty useless don't you think? I mean you can at least put into context what he's saying...

Dog poo on a stick.

its true in one of saddams bunkers they found a thousand weapons grades stick that could, at any minute have been combines with iraqi munitions #254451: some dog poo. it is for this reason that we invaded. beleive anything else and you're playin yourself

bio weapons dont stop at one city but continue to spread because of modern-day travel

im gonna have to say the human mind, hence my vote goes to the love stick

The TV remote control

Either Satan or women

hu...man...com.passs....ion....

human compassion, whatever that is.

teh kokie k0k

hu...man...com.passs....ion....

human compassion, whatever that is.
Ion cannon?

I would say dog poo on a stick, but when analyzed in more detail you can plainly see that it's just a mark up from a household pointy stick.

I say a pointy stick...probably killed more people than guns.

A man's wang because it leads him to war lots!

The Neutron Bomb

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Fusion/Fusion5.shtml

Life, anyone who has ever experienced it hasnt come out of it alive.
Secon and 3rd must be nova bombs and psp (ok fictional, but when they make reality they will be the worst)

Life, anyone who has ever experienced it hasnt come out of it alive.
Secon and 3rd must be nova bombs and psp (ok fictional, but when they make reality they will be the worst)
ive experienced life and im still alive

Life, anyone who has ever experienced it hasnt come out of it alive.
Secon and 3rd must be nova bombs and psp (ok fictional, but when they make reality they will be the worst)

What does a Nova Bomb and PSP concist of and how do they work?

Other:

You're Superiority and my retardedness, a deadly comination!!!

Like most of the folks who voted "other," I cast my vote for the fists of Black Belt Jones.

My cooking.

Although maybe it should be in the biological/chemical category.

ive experienced life and im still alive
Wait a few decades.

This:

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/images/humanlobes.gif

The frontal lobe in particular:
Frontal Lobe- associated with reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structure1.html#cerebrum


ABSOLUTELY every single previous answer is rooted in the frontal lobe. Swords, guns, bombs, the effects of the "wang", compassion, etc. it all derives from the frontal lobe.

Did anyone see the "Pain Beam" article in Pop Science? (I read it at the barbershop.) That's got to be up there on the list. Even though it ain't even deadly, it's still pretty super-villain.

If Black Belt Jones weren't so baaaadass, I might have voted "other" for the pain ray instead of "other" for kung fu.

I had a big pie for lunch, the effects of which have led me to believe that the deadliest weapon on earth is indeed the flatulence of the male Homo Sapiens.

the truly most deadly weapon(Luckily never used... yet) is the combination of my socks after a hard day working in the woods laced with the danish cheese 'Gamle Oles Farfar' (Old Oles grandfather), they concidered dropping it over Baghdad but realized it was just too inhumane.

Human stupidity.

the truly most deadly weapon(Luckily never used... yet) is the combination of my socks after a hard day working in the woods laced with the danish cheese 'Gamle Oles Farfar' (Old Oles grandfather), they concidered dropping it over Baghdad but realized it was just too inhumane.

What I like best about gamle ole is the way it makes your gumline feel. You can really feel the bacteria prancing around. It kind of tingles. Really. Aquavit is the only antidote.

What I like best about gamle ole is the way it makes your gumline feel. You can really feel the bacteria prancing around. It kind of tingles. Really. Aquavit is the only antidote.

Yeah, just gamle ole is deadly in itself, but it would be a pleasureable death, that's why my socks are tossed in as the painful factor.

The truely deadliest weapon of all time has to be man's inherent ability to find werid and wonderful ways of killing others of his species.

I am proud to be human :P

If your baseing deadliest on what will kill more and level more then the deadliest weapon would be time because nothing survives time.

The Bananna Peel.

EDIT:Mabey Vampire Zombie Nazis come in second.

Man in general. Lesbians are pretty damn kool though :p

Other: Machine gun

Sure the a-bomb, opposable thumb and katana blades are all deadly weapons, but an anti-matter bomb would have to be the deadliest and most unstable weapon of all time. You see when anti-matter and matter meet, they anhilate each other releasing energy with 100% efficency (as opposed to uranium which is <10% efficent) a single grain could wipe out NY city in seconds :eek:

The problem is we still really don't know what anti matter is or why it is. Considering how disasterous the side-effects of a nuke are, I hate to think of what an antimatter bomb might do. It could set off a chain reaction that destroys the entire galaxy. But probably not. Still, better to be safe than to be phased out of spacetime. :p

Katana from anime.There to most powerful weapon you can have. :cool:

Cue obligatory 'Sword-chucks' reference.

Has anyone mentioned the "Unlabored Flawlessness" yet? Cause that's pretty deadly.

I would say biological weapons...

There's so many ways to manipulate the genetic code of relatively simple viruses and bacteria that you could make weapons that are highly resistant, if not immune, to all conventional medical treatments.

Then of course, there's the ability to change the method of transmission (from fluid transmission to air transmission...etc.)

Finally...human travel makes it sickening to think about. Start with one person...he infects 3 people in London. One goes to New York, one to Calcutta, one to Tokyo. Each of those three infect three more...you get the idea... :eek:

Quite clearly the answer is badly sliced cabbage.