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Hal Morsh
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Posted - 2016.01.12 23:47:21 -
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Uhm. I'm not sure when this happened, but the early technology for plasma rail cannons is a thing now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_railgun
I find it neat.
I read things about a homemade railgun by some dudes using aluminum as ammo, which isn't magnetic.. "Aluminum is usefull because aluminum has a high boiling point.' Not sure why, but that's what someone who built a backyard railgun said. I saw white sparks and blue aluminum smoke come out the end. It definitely vaporized the small block. In fact they didn't even video it hitting anything. A video of a smaller version put some damage into something like a shotgun, but it wasn't nearly as effective as an actual shotgun.
So if high boiling points are usefull, Does hybrid ammunition in EVE have high boiling points. Would it relate? They are all at plasma based on the descriptions, and some of them are things like "Iron" and "Tungstun". I always read that and it makes me worrisome that hybrid ammo might be dangerous if the magnetic on the ammo fails.
Now that things in sci-fi are becoming reality we can test it against the guess of EVE. See if the devs were smarter than they thought when writing how the technology in EVE worked.
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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Hal Morsh
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Posted - 2016.01.12 23:59:05 -
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I came to this about EVE when trying to figure out how they fire aluminum. Because it ain't magnetic.
I imagined this is really just that "electrical Jacobs ladder" (science toy) turned into a weapon.
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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Hal Morsh
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Posted - 2016.01.13 00:07:46 -
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Ibutho Inkosi wrote:
But, all that aside. When I see your sig I become worried.
If it makes you feel any better. I made dinner and can't find the salt. Vegetables without salt. (Some bbq chicken too).
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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Hal Morsh
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Posted - 2016.01.13 00:18:36 -
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Pix Severus wrote:I assume high boiling points in ammo is desired because the process of firing it produces a lot of heat, therefore having ammo that will stay solid and not just splatter against the target is a good thing.
I'm just guessing though, I know little about these things.
I kno right? But its projectiling them as a plasma. Blasters magnetic field (ball) it and fire it, which is to explain why it dissipates so fast "meaning short range". While railguns hurl it really fast and precise. The T2 ammunitions have explanations for how they work, but "rocket assisted" only works for projectiles. I don't see how a "rocket sabot" assists plasma fired in T2 spike ammo.
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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Hal Morsh
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Posted - 2016.01.13 00:24:03 -
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Annemariela Antonela wrote:Good, good; another railgun post.
You can start the "anti gravity" thread then.
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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Hal Morsh
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Posted - 2016.01.13 22:35:03 -
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Nafensoriel wrote:Space travel has very little to do with politics and more to do with trying to replicate a biosphere that wont suffer cascade failure for decades or centuries. This is why we are massively interested in FTL solutions.
In short.. if the speed of light is as fast as we are ever going to travel all space flight systems must exist for the long haul. This isnt easy. Cryo isnt remotely a thing or even possibly a thing. This means generation ships. Fixed "earths" with a minute fraction of the biosphere packed into a synthetic hull... without a handy star nearby to power them. This is such a massive and scary task it will literally crush your intellect when you start diving into it. And no.. regardless of what you hear on the news we do not understand the biosphere or weather systems well enough to predict them efficiently. The whole AGW debate is a prime example of this.. its an arena of 15% real scientists, 75% scientists who have lost their objectivity, and 10% nutballs or politically purchased opinions. (and no im not saying AWG doesn't exist. It does. Dont be stupid. Just that there is a massive sh*tton of bad science being thrown around right now on both sides)
Additionally nuclear tech has been so hobbled that our one true ticket to the stars isnt socially acceptable yet. People today hear the world "nuclear" and think the old 1970s terribly designed barely controlled bombs that we used to call reactors. Modern material science has made things so utterly safe that you can hit one with a 350 car freight train and have it survive intact and safely functional. Even the radiation concerns are laughable.. you dump more radiation into the atmosphere burning coal than you do using a modern reactor.
It also doesn't help that wind and solar are jack and useless outside of a solar system ;). So kids... want eve to be real? Scream yell and support your local nuclear(unless its a local US plant... jesus christ get rid of thoses things already and build some CANDUs.
I think Monsanto has proven human stupidity with science well enough in modern times. It would also help a whole lot if things like the Fukashima disaster stopped happening.
Valacus wrote:
Thankfully, you can either carry or wrap anything in a magnetic metal and boom, there she blows.
Someone needs to make a bow and arrow with a circle of magnets in the end to help propel the arrow forward. I've seen someone rapid fire a handheld magnetic pistol with enough force to crack a computer screen pretty good, before that it had to charge like those old flash cameras each shot. So it is getting compact enough to be practical.
ALSO going to leave this here.
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/12/new-graphene-carbon-nanotube-supercapacitor/
I heard about carbon nanotube powerstorage speculation before 2014. Some Tv show or science video from youtube. It's always been stuck in my head since. The article has earlier dates.
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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Hal Morsh
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Posted - 2016.01.18 02:00:54 -
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Logan Revelore wrote:The challenges with a working plasma weapon in atmospheres is maintaining the integrity of the magnetic field holding the ionized mass together while it travels towards its target. In space, you don't necessarily need a magnetic field, even though that could provide for higher densities of mass.
Plasma cutters shoot gas or liquid around the arc (separate) as a shield. I've read into plasma stuff and there is talk of atmosphere containment fields, so I assume it's in the works. I can't imagine plasma would be anything more than a fancy flamethrower as a weapon. Lots of burnt people.
I do remember reading rumors of melted things in the Middle East and expirmiental weapons, but all I heard was rumors off google or some video years back. Google turns up... Not much besides Israel using white phosphorus and some really nasty shrapnel bombs.
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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