When people speculate on the What if's of WW2 too much focus on the Germans. The juiciest bit is from Japan actually.

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Tesla unknowingly built an X-Ray machine because it created a "weird glow", before X-Rays were discovered.

Fun fact in the earliest planning stages for the war. Like deciding where to focus R and D for the future of the War. First Suggestion in that Japanese Meeting. "Hey what if we make a bomb powered by an Atomic reaction." Immediately laughed off in favor of a "Death Ray"

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For context how much of an Impact this would've made. Your talking years before they even thought of the Manhattan project.

Manhattan project required a tremendous amount of intellectual power, as well as a fucking load of money.

And they messed up their War planning in the most stereotypically Japanese way possible. Opting for the "Death Ray"

yea those boys didnt fare well with the protection from radiation thing either

True.

Japan wouldn't be able to develop nukes, nor the Nazis.

I dunno we got a lot of the talent for Manhatten Project from Germany

Scott Manley has a series (he just published a new video), "Going Nuclear", about all the various difficulties in making a nuclear bomb.

It's not so much the likelihood of them devolving nukes. More the hilaritaity of what they opted for instead.

The sheer infrastructure the US had is what allowed us to develop the bomb

I mean. Passing up nuke research for the "Death Ray" Sounds like an Really old Godzilla movie plot.

that's so true

Reminder, nearly all of the useful properties of the periodic table were discovered by the Manhattan project.

Then Godzila thwarted the Death ray destroying half of Tokyo.

they may as well have asked for sharks with freakin lazers

Who knows what chemistry, or electronics even, would be today, without the Manhattan project.

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that was the best part when Scott actually got sharks with lasers for his dad

Not sure how useful Sharks with Frikkin Lasers would've been in WW2.

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@Merku would have been about to cut those uboats like butter

Would've made the Thrasher Story from the original Jaws Movie far more interesting though.

hey the US military tries to use dolphins

It wanted handjobs tho

there are so many impracticalities for actual sharks with lasers that it can only be a funny side plot in a comedy

You know we should Trick Feminists to adopting Dolphins as a Mascott. Then they'd have a Species that rapes divers and has been observed to bite the head off of a Fish to use as a bloody Fleshlight as their Mascot.

Lol

https://i.imgur.com/DHGgns3.gifv

They're also racist twards porpoises

Yeah but everything is Racist. So what exactly does that mean?

Really?

At this point Racist Means "Exists"

I'm for drafting feminists and creating a military unit modeled after the Admiral Holdo method from Star Wars