Hey /his/ what were some of the down right stupidest ideas in history. I'm talking weapons, tactics, warfare, political moves anything that was just out right retarded.
I'll start
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
It was a really small nuke that would have killed the people who fired it.
>>373721
being a fucking sack of wine
>>373721
The creation of /r9k/
Is it that dumb? Depleted uranium is common in US bombs. Is a very weak nuclear bomb that much worse?
>my brother the King has ordered me not to attack the British as my force is underequipped and I am not a very good tactician
>I know, I will attack the British
>What could possibly go wrong
We should let all these migrant German people into the Empire. What could possibly happen?
>>373781
The Roman Empire was a sinking ship anyway you retard
>>373781
If it wasn't for the famine, and Romans repeatedly mistreating the Goths, they could have been a good buffer against the Huns
>>373721
>Let's make planes that take off from other planes in mid-air! Surely they won't crash and die!
>>373781
What the Romans did makes a lot of sense, actually. Just trying to fight them would have ended in getting overhwhelmed en-masse. Using treaties of settlement and making clients gave the Romans leverage, which they sometimes used devilishly.
>>373781
>this shit again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29
>So how are we going to get this ship into orbit and then around the solar system? Any ideas Bill?
>I don't, nuclear bombs are pretty popular now, why don't we just propel a ship with hundreds of tiny nuclear bombs?
>Goddamnit Bill who let you into NASA?
Jokes aside, Orion propulsion is actually incredibly efficient when compared to chemical rockets and using an Orion engine in atmosphere would make an incredibly small change in earth's background radiation. The only real danger represented would be all the ship itself crashing into earth with all those bombs. As with all proposed nuclear technologies in the 50s, the scale of the thing got so out of hand that engineers were drawing up plans for entire cities that would float in the air on nuclear bombs and then of course people stopped caring about the whole project.
Kind of a shame that we have never looked up with alley of space travel again since the 50s.
Most anything done by the Royal Navy
There's a book called Greatest Naval Blunders but it might as well be called Greatest Royal Navy Blunders. Churchill was hysterically incompetent.
That being said, Voyage of the Damned was probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever read about
>>373764
>he thinks depleted uranium is the same thing as the uranium or plutonium in a nuclear bomb.
>>374228
Its still a viable idea though.
Fusion or even antimatter bomb propulsion maybe the means humans finally leave this solar system.
Just not around earth or anyplace we still may in habit.
Nuclear weapons in general are either the dumbest, or the smartest weapons ever invented.
The dumbest, because they are powerful beyond usefullness, and the smartest, because this fact is a very good insurance for peace
>>373721
Mao's great leap forward. Killed 25+ million if I remember correctly and turned tons of usable farm tools into pig iron.
Quintilius Varus!
>>374436
It's still very fucked up and I don't understand how the fuck deplated uranium is legal
>>374436
depleted uranium is still biotoxic
