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Hal Morsh
Hmmzor.
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Posted - 2015.12.30 14:00:44 -
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Now that railguns are becoming an actual thing, we might be able to look at "why" railguns in EVE have a falloff range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYbOmqPg1I
Here's a bigger one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAs9EHtKfVc
The stuff vaporizes when you fire it.
"quote" In todays technology, it's the C clamps that will kill you.
Dun'Gal > Hal is simply an imperfect ai, though if drunkeness ever gets programmed into ai's I foresee both a hilarious and tragic end to humanity.
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Annemariela Antonela
Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic
13
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Posted - 2015.12.30 16:31:19 -
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I always thought railguns were supposed to be frictionless systems-- a rod of something dense trapped in a monopolar EM field. In space you could accelerate it to relativistic speeds with zero drag, given enough rail length.
Maybe these guys should try lubing their rod next time.
GÇ£Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.GÇ¥
GÇò Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon
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Solecist Project
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.12.30 16:33:04 -
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Annemariela Antonela wrote:Maybe these guys should try lubing their rod next time. *snickers xD*
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
The game has changed little from my point of view ... yet here I am, playing again with 3 accounts...
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Max Fubarticus
The Scope Gallente Federation
57
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Posted - 2015.12.30 17:20:06 -
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Higgs Bosun drag is the culprit
Nerdy Physicist humor: What did the Higgs Bosun particle say to the Quark? "Is it heavy in here or is it just me"
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SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
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Posted - 2015.12.30 17:47:04 -
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Annemariela Antonela wrote:I always thought railguns were supposed to be frictionless systems--
A coilgun could be built that way, but not a railgun. In a railgun, by definition the projectile (or some sort of projectile housing/armature/etc.) is in contact with the rails. That is literally what is completing the circuit.
To be fair, many of the named "railguns" are actually named as coilguns, though, soooo... :shrug:
"Help, I'm bored with missions!"
http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/
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Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
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Posted - 2015.12.30 18:20:05 -
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Never heard of a coilgun but I love electromagnetic toroidal coils. And EMdrives. What if they just stuck an emdrive to a projectile?
Oh god.
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Annemariela Antonela
Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic
13
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Posted - 2015.12.30 18:32:07 -
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SurrenderMonkey wrote:Annemariela Antonela wrote:I always thought railguns were supposed to be frictionless systems--
A coilgun could be built that way, but not a railgun. In a railgun, by definition the projectile (or some sort of projectile housing/armature/etc.) is in contact with the rails. That is literally what is completing the circuit. To be fair, many of the named "railguns" are actually named as coilguns, though, soooo... :shrug:
I stand corrected. o7
GÇ£Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.GÇ¥
GÇò Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon
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Rowells
ANZAC ALLIANCE Fidelas Constans
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Posted - 2015.12.30 18:36:37 -
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Now do lasers. |
Chainsaw Plankton
Signal Cartel EvE-Scout Enclave
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Posted - 2015.12.30 20:57:44 -
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I always figured it was the plasma in the casing starting to disintegrating the casing and leaking out into space.
@ChainsawPlankto
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Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local Break-A-Wish Foundation
3882
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Posted - 2015.12.30 21:13:09 -
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Max Fubarticus wrote:Higgs Bosun
It's correctly spelled Boatswain. It's the particle responsible for handling small boats. |
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ISD Decoy
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
1553
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Posted - 2015.12.30 23:49:02 -
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Moving this to OOPE. Great watch... couldn't believe how the energy destroyed the lines on the first attempt.
ISD Decoy
Captain
Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)
Interstellar Services Department
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Zirashi
State Protectorate Caldari State
15
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Posted - 2015.12.31 15:15:13 -
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You call that a railgun?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eObepuHvYAw
Now THIS is a railgun! |
Zirashi
State Protectorate Caldari State
15
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Posted - 2015.12.31 15:26:04 -
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Rowells wrote:Now do lasers.
Well lasers would have to be focused to a fixed point to actually burn a target. In Eve, I'd guess this point is determined by the crystal used. This means that you could have your laser is focused to burn things at 3k and it loses potency gradually as you go away from that. Your falloff is the distance that the laser is still focused enough to cause some sort of burn. The real question would be, why hasn't the eve universe designed a system to focus a laser dynamically rather than using a system as primitive as swapping from a very select few of lenses? |
Jenshae Chiroptera
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Posted - 2015.12.31 18:49:46 -
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The related coil gun was neat. I see more possibilities with that.
CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids
There are other ways to fix Null Sec stagnation and Fozzie SOV is the wrong approach.
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