NationStates Jolt Archive

Colodian scientists, after being swept by the new bestseller "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," have wondered as to how an Improbability Bomb could be used to immediatly win wars.

Simply an idea today, but with the help and ideas from the international community, it just might be reality. Maybe.

(OOC: Technically, since it's high improbable that an improbability bomb can be created at all, wouldn't such a weapon just pop out of nowhere to our hands?)

ooc:No. A casing for the bomb will appear, but it will be filled with gremlins, trout and Ford Prefect.

OOC: It may just well open up a whole new world for godmodders though. An Improbability Drive appearing out of thin air like that...anyone can obtain it and use it to their advantage.

OOC: The probability of it backfiring is so low that it automatically would, and turn all your people into perfectally cooked lobster, complete with bibs and butter. Your president would turn into a vending machine that makes a substence that tastes nothing like tea.
EDIT: Your people would have to provide their own claw crackers, and the presidents cabinet would turn into neanderthals that like to play scrabble.

OOC: The probability of it backfiring is so low that it automatically would, and turn all your people into perfectally cooked lobster, complete with bibs and butter. Your president would turn into a vending machine that makes a substence that tastes nothing like tea.
OOC: Actually, such a complicated bomb from the year A.D. 2005 has a significantly HIGH chance of backfiring and a LOW chance of working correctly, thus it will work correctly due to improbability physics.

OOC: Actually, such a complicated bomb from the year A.D. 2005 has a significantly HIGH chance of backfiring and a LOW chance of working correctly, thus it will work correctly due to improbability physics.
OOC: Yeah, but the probabilty of me saying a smart comeback is so low that...
Hey look! A clam!
OOC2: Sorry for hijacking your thread. Couldn't resist.

OOC: Actually, such a complicated bomb from the year A.D. 2005 has a significantly HIGH chance of backfiring and a LOW chance of working correctly, thus it will work correctly due to improbability physics.

Wow. Does anyone else think that A.D. 2005 written like that looks really future?

OOC: I believe that, in light of the actions of some nations, the improbability bomb currently exsists and is being used by many of the noobish nations we have. In fact, improbability weapons have historically exsisted since the first noob set foot (keyboard? foot? eyes? I don't know.) on this board. They have been perfected over the years so that their high improbability of proper functioning has been reduced to a very low improbability. Thus, current noobs, at any tech level, are able to harness their improbability drives (obtained from improbable sources nontheless) with very high probability of initial sucesses. We also speculate that improbability devices exsist in several forms, the improbability bomb, missile, cruse missile, cannon, bullet, soldier, tank, armour, rifle, pistol, aircraft, machinegun, shotgun, pulse rifle, battleship, cruser, carrier, transport, commander, terrain, artilery piece, supply system, nuke, chemical/biological agent and/or device, n00k, n00ke, and other unidentified forms.

The only know defense against an improbability device seems to be another improbability device, an impossibility device, or a mass protest by the international community which has the improbably result of nullifying any actions taken or caused by the origional improbabilty device.

OOC2: If that made any sense to you, you're more inteligent than you think.

OOC: That made sense, actually. I meant for the Improbability Bomb to be used as a humorous, non-godmodding type of weapon for NS. I mean, wouldn't it be funny to end a war with the explosion of an Improbability Bomb on the enemy's capitol, replacing the governmental officials with suicidal clowns and the capital building becoming a massive child-laboring bakery?

Cool. An improbabillity bomb. Just out of curriosity, do you have the Improbabillity Drive on your ships? I almost forgot about the Improbabillity stuff. Remember, 42: The meaning of Live, the Universe, and Everything.
I assume you read all of the trillogy?

It wouldn't really be an improbability BOMB as per se, as it would simply be an improbability generator inside a Har- Er... Paper casing. The probability of it breaking upon impact are so high that it will be near invincible. The only problem is - what happens if someone breathes on it?

Whoop. INCOMING WHALE! And petunias.

Cool. An improbabillity bomb. Just out of curriosity, do you have the Improbabillity Drive on your ships? I almost forgot about the Improbabillity stuff. Remember, 42: The meaning of Live, the Universe, and Everything.
I assume you read all of the trillogy?
We would have an Improbability Drive installed on our space vessels soon after we've harnessed the power of improbability physics. Given the enourmous complexity and improbability of us being able to figure out improbability physics within our own lifetimes, we'll have it all on paper in about 12 hours.