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by Xess
2015-03-26 07:53pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: World of Tanks Mark III
Replies: 1051
Views: 147101

Re: World of Tanks Mark III

I actually prefer WoT to WarThunder Ground Forces. I have way more fun in WoT.
by Xess
2015-01-12 06:18pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: Ramming drones.
Replies: 50
Views: 19271

Re: Ramming drones.

Neat. Ok so using this calculator and another one to convert Joules to Megatons, here's what I get. Starfleet Type F shuttle (Star Trek : TOS...I couldn't find the mass listed for the newer ones) has a mass of 17,000kg. At lightspeed, it would impact with the force of 14.5 gigatons. Ignoring any ma...
by Xess
2015-01-04 07:40pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Is #GamerGate misogyny posing as concern for ethics?
Replies: 598
Views: 92803

Re: Is #GamerGate misogyny posing as concern for ethics?

Whoever made up that cartoon Joun linked to, I must assume, doesn't know the difference. Which tends to reinforce the "massive disconnect with reality" aspect of the gamer stereotype. The guy goes by Gaf on Memecenter and has a long list of (in my opinion) misogynistic and anti-feminist c...
by Xess
2014-12-21 07:36pm
Forum: Debating Help
Topic: Star Wars: "Baradium is illegal, so other weapons are weak"
Replies: 14
Views: 23880

Re: Star Wars: "Baradium is illegal, so other weapons are we

So I did the "pound for pound" math for baradium the guy keeps going on about. He claims 1000kg baradium warhead = 8kt, that's 33.6x10^9 J/kg. Using a 10^32 J Death Star blast, a 120km diameter and made of solid iron we get 15.48x10^12 J/kg. If the Death Star is the same size and made of s...
by Xess
2014-12-17 11:20pm
Forum: Debating Help
Topic: Star Wars: "Baradium is illegal, so other weapons are weak"
Replies: 14
Views: 23880

Re: Star Wars: "Baradium is illegal, so other weapons are we

Hmmm. How did you calculate the numbers? He'll ask. Punching a 1Mt bomb into NukeMap myself (which is how he did it in the first place, so it's only fair) says that the fireball radius is 500m, so 0.79km 2 , which renders 188 million some odd bombs when used to divide Earth's total 148,940,000km 2 ...
by Xess
2014-12-16 08:58pm
Forum: Debating Help
Topic: Star Wars: "Baradium is illegal, so other weapons are weak"
Replies: 14
Views: 23880

Re: Star Wars: "Baradium is illegal, so other weapons are we

It really depends on what a Base Delta Zero actually is. If it is destroying all traces of civilization, say cover the entire land surface of Earth with 20 PSI overpressure, we'd need 20.4 million 1 megaton airbursts or 34.2 million 1 megaton surface blasts which would be more like turbolasers. If w...
by Xess
2014-05-07 05:56pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Killing Kaiju?
Replies: 105
Views: 16211

Re: Killing Kaiju?

The kaiju generate and are supported by an AWESOME field. This field warps reality, suppressing non-AWESOME things and boosting things that are AWESOME. Scientists the world over can be found crying into strong drinks. Conventional weaponry and military vehicles look good on paper but fail when att...
by Xess
2014-04-29 09:07pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

why would there be debris right away? It's got to fly up and escape the atmosphere and continue this happens in the span of less then 1 sec its about right. The impact would have to send debris at 2400 km/s to get it 100km up in 1 frame. I see no problem with an event that produces enough energy to...
by Xess
2014-04-29 08:58pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

why would there be debris right away? It's got to fly up and escape the atmosphere and continue this happens in the span of less then 1 sec its about right. The impact would have to send debris at 2400 km/s to get it 100km up in 1 frame. I see no problem with an event that produces enough energy to...
by Xess
2014-04-29 08:30pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

if you look at the 4th 5th and 6th pic the effect that is being called the planetary shield is still there. In fact its there all the way until the destrcution Why would that be? If the Death star already has punched through the shield why is the shield glowin as if its being hit and holding? To me...
by Xess
2014-04-29 08:19pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

That's the original Thanas, the SE looks different. Special edition: http://s12.photobucket.com/user/CptK/media/bd727c36.jpg.html The SE also has a planetary shield. I don't disagree, I was just pointing out that they are in fact different. The 4th and 5th pictures down in your first link show it t...
by Xess
2014-04-29 08:09pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

That's the original Thanas, the SE looks different.
by Xess
2014-04-29 07:58pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

and Alderaan didn't have any weapons at all and were considered a peacful people. So why would they have a planetary shield? I have an issue with this. A shield is not a weapon, it is a defensive device. Possession of a shield is not in anyway incompatible with being a peaceful people. My main issu...
by Xess
2014-04-29 07:21pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

We know that coming out of hyperspace to far from the target planet gives time to raise shields from The Empire Strikes Back. Planetary shields could be the same and a well executed attack would catch the planet with lowered shields and be able to destroy the generators before the shield can go onli...
by Xess
2014-04-29 07:00pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

We know that in Star Wars they can generate shields that can cover small moons. Why? Because the Death Stars have shields and are the size of small moons. DS2 is something like 900km in diameter in the film. If they can make a shield that can envelop a 900km space station (remotely at that) they cou...
by Xess
2014-04-28 05:49pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

Thank you this is what i have been trying to tell them. btw i love your sig I was a plant operator at Turkey Point You're welcome. All that being said, a non-chain reaction mechanism seems to be more likely to me since it doesn't add a step between "shoot death-ray" and "planet kersp...
by Xess
2014-04-28 04:56pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

The energy that composes the super laser is unknown. That being said in general energy is absorbed by matter as heat, you add enough heat at a fast enough rate you get a rapidly expanding ball of plasma. This makes a big boom. I'm note sure if you understand what people other than you mean by "...
by Xess
2014-04-28 12:42pm
Forum: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Topic: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?
Replies: 353
Views: 90333

Re: How does the new Star Wars Canon affect the debate?

If you watch a video of Alderaan being blown up, there's the initial bang and then later a second bang. It could be explained by either a chain reaction or something like the core taking a split second longer to blow up than the outer crust. The Death Star blowing up though is just one bang, there's...
by Xess
2014-04-13 11:56pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: World of Tanks Mark III
Replies: 1051
Views: 147101

Re: World of Tanks Mark III

I was and continue to be sick this weekend, but I finally took out the AMX-50-100. It is a stupid fun tank, still learning but I'm going to enjoy this one.
by Xess
2014-04-03 08:37pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: World of Tanks Mark III
Replies: 1051
Views: 147101

Re: World of Tanks Mark III

So I was playing on Hidden Village in my Type 59, we're winning. Anyway the Su-122-44 starts bitching about how I'm an idiot. I think because I went back to help our IS-6 who it turned out didn't need it and so the Su-122-44 died because I didn't go the other way. This is one of the rare times someo...
by Xess
2014-03-28 06:05pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: World of Tanks Mark III
Replies: 1051
Views: 147101

Re: World of Tanks Mark III

The new models sure look nice, it's a shame my computer can't run anything beyond minimum.
by Xess
2014-03-24 09:24pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: World of Tanks Mark III
Replies: 1051
Views: 147101

Re: World of Tanks Mark III

So I was trying to finish that month long mission where you'd get a Tetrarch, but with 1-4 victory/loss ratio tonight I have stopped caring. I couldn't buy a fucking win if I wanted to.
by Xess
2014-03-12 07:31pm
Forum: Fantasy
Topic: "Frozen" talkback
Replies: 38
Views: 7837

Re: "Frozen" talkback

The film definitely would have been improved with a "Everyone hates magic" background on display. I also agree that however much I like "Let It Go", it really doesn't hold up in the narrative. My understanding is that it was written for the "Elsa is a villain" plot but ...
by Xess
2014-03-11 09:36am
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: World of Tanks Mark III
Replies: 1051
Views: 147101

Re: World of Tanks Mark III

Simon_Jester wrote:What is the Chi-Ri's trick?
A 75mm gun with a 3 round drum and 1 second cycle time. Shoot 3 times in 3 seconds basically.
by Xess
2014-03-10 04:21pm
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: World of Tanks Mark III
Replies: 1051
Views: 147101

Re: World of Tanks Mark III

I try to be very generous with other players, but some people make decisions that boggle even my average-skilled mind. I was playing Encounter on Murovanka and this SU-85 drives onto the cap circle, as he is driving an M4 he could one-shot pops up and shoots him in the side. He then ignores the M4 a...