Posted: 2008-08-13 03:43pm
Isn't the real problem the manufacture of ammunition, rather than the fabrication of the guns?
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It very well could be lies, but if that's the case we'd have to invent a city all on our own, instead of drawing on existing material, and where's the fun in that? It could be a sham city that's only a big empty shell, built to impress humans from the outside. Or, it could be that the very specific design, geometry, and materials serve to channel/harness/focus the worship energy at Yaweh's throne, which is in the center of the city.Darth Wong wrote:The problem is that the entire End Times prophecy has been shown to be a sham, so there's no reason to believe any of its details, including its description of the city.
Soft lead and basic blackpowder, which can be corned with some alcohol and a cheesecloth from ingredients readily available in hell, so ammo would be fairly easily produced. We build the guns, and drop them to escapee and liberated groups with instructions on how to make the ammo.Darth Wong wrote:Isn't the real problem the manufacture of ammunition, rather than the fabrication of the guns?
The problem is that the city as described is downright laughable in its absurdity, especially the part about how it's made of pure gold, and its streets are also paved with pure gold. And how would it even have streets visible from outside, if it's constructed as a giant cube?CaptainChewbacca wrote:It very well could be lies, but if that's the case we'd have to invent a city all on our own, instead of drawing on existing material, and where's the fun in that? It could be a sham city that's only a big empty shell, built to impress humans from the outside. Or, it could be that the very specific design, geometry, and materials serve to channel/harness/focus the worship energy at Yaweh's throne, which is in the center of the city.
I agree, my working hypothesis is that the biblical description applies to the Heaven space-time bubble rather than just the city (very much the way people say "Jakarta" or "Beijing" when they mean Indonesia or China). Likewise "paved with gold" is a common colloquialism for "full of very rich people who treat everybody else like dirt" so I'm going with that as well - the city is big, thinly populated, full of fabulously exotic palaces etc.Darth Wong wrote:The problem is that the city as described is downright laughable in its absurdity, especially the part about how it's made of pure gold, and its streets are also paved with pure gold. And how would it even have streets visible from outside, if it's constructed as a giant cube? This cosmic cube would make much more sense as the dimensions of Heaven itself, rather than a physical city with a preposterous construction of pure gold.
It could be mosaic over brick.Darth Wong wrote:The problem is that the city as described is downright laughable in its absurdity, especially the part about how it's made of pure gold, and its streets are also paved with pure gold. And how would it even have streets visible from outside, if it's constructed as a giant cube?CaptainChewbacca wrote:It very well could be lies, but if that's the case we'd have to invent a city all on our own, instead of drawing on existing material, and where's the fun in that? It could be a sham city that's only a big empty shell, built to impress humans from the outside. Or, it could be that the very specific design, geometry, and materials serve to channel/harness/focus the worship energy at Yaweh's throne, which is in the center of the city.
This cosmic cube would make much more sense as the dimensions of Heaven itself, rather than a physical city with a preposterous construction of pure gold.
Crowning. Moment. Of fucking Awesome.Stuart wrote:"To do this I call upon the Holy Catholic Church to excommunicate God.”
Didn't the story mention that Dante had a surprisingly accurate vision of Hell? Does his description of Heaven in Paradiso bear any resemblances to the real Heaven in the story as well?Stuart wrote:I agree, my working hypothesis is that the biblical description applies to the Heaven space-time bubble rather than just the city (very much the way people say "Jakarta" or "Beijing" when they mean Indonesia or China). Likewise "paved with gold" is a common colloquialism for "full of very rich people who treat everybody else like dirt" so I'm going with that as well - the city is big, thinly populated, full of fabulously exotic palaces etc.Darth Wong wrote:The problem is that the city as described is downright laughable in its absurdity, especially the part about how it's made of pure gold, and its streets are also paved with pure gold. And how would it even have streets visible from outside, if it's constructed as a giant cube? This cosmic cube would make much more sense as the dimensions of Heaven itself, rather than a physical city with a preposterous construction of pure gold.
The space-time bubbles aren't cubes, they're klein bottles which has several interesting properties. Heaven's for the next book though, it hasn't anything much to do with this volume.
We need patrol ships. We've basically just added another fleet area there. Also what if Heaven attacks Earth and Hell simultaneously? We need enough ships to fight a war on both fronts. And 5in VT shrapnel will kill an angel just as reliably as the main gun on a tank. And we do indeed need anti-kraken work, since they could continue to attack us until hunted to extinction, and we need escorts for convoys in case they do attack, etc. The navy is going to be massively overstretched.CaptainChewbacca wrote:What role would these ships be playing in hell? Assuming all goes well and the war is largely won in the next six months to a year, are we going to be deploying these things on extended 'anti kraken' runs? Are there deep enough rivers in hell to use them as riverine?
Or for all we know Heaven has a very high cosmic abundance of gold (or heavy elements in general) so it's actually is feasible to make cobblestones out of it. It's not as ridiculous as it sounds when you consider the fact that if Hell had the same cosmic element abundances as our universe it'd be mostly a big bag of hydrogen; it clearly has vastly higher percentages of heavy elements than our universe, as its composition seems to resemble that of a terrestrial planet.LadyTevar wrote:It could be mosaic over brick.
The more I wait for him to appear the worse death for him I imagine.fusion wrote: Well, where is Uriel? He appeared 40 chapters ago; however, he has not been mention again. "Loose end" characters are very bothersome...
Ok... I've pulled out the KJV.Junghalli wrote:Or for all we know Heaven has a very high cosmic abundance of gold (or heavy elements in general) so it's actually is feasible to make cobblestones out of it. It's not as ridiculous as it sounds when you consider the fact that if Hell had the same cosmic element abundances as our universe it'd be mostly a big bag of hydrogen; it clearly has vastly higher percentages of heavy elements than our universe, as its composition seems to resemble that of a terrestrial planet.LadyTevar wrote:It could be mosaic over brick.
Pure Gold does not look like clear, transparent glass.Revelation 21:18-21 wrote:And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundationwas jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; and every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Chalcedony is a very shimmery quartz crystal."Garnished" probably means the walls were decorated with the gems, not made of those. I'm not sure what a chalcedony, sardius, chrysolite, or a chrysoprasus are, gimme some time to research those online.
The problem with the city of pure gold is not the abundance of gold. It is the fact that gold is both dense and soft, thus making it one of the worst imaginable structural materials.Junghalli wrote:Or for all we know Heaven has a very high cosmic abundance of gold (or heavy elements in general) so it's actually is feasible to make cobblestones out of it. It's not as ridiculous as it sounds when you consider the fact that if Hell had the same cosmic element abundances as our universe it'd be mostly a big bag of hydrogen; it clearly has vastly higher percentages of heavy elements than our universe, as its composition seems to resemble that of a terrestrial planet.LadyTevar wrote:It could be mosaic over brick.
Edit: something else just occurred to me while I was thinking along these lines. If Demons are allergic to iron, are we to presume they use something other than hemoglobin? I remember it saying earlier that they had different colors of blood.
Does that mean they're from Krypton? That explains a lot, Jor-El didn't want us knowing his real name so he started going by Yahweh...Junghalli wrote:I actually rather like the idea of Heaven as a world with tons of naturally occuring crystals lying around.
Damn You, Peptuck! These were going to be my words as well! Give me back my words, you THIEF!!!Peptuck wrote:Crowning. Moment. Of fucking Awesome.Stuart wrote:"To do this I call upon the Holy Catholic Church to excommunicate God.”
To be different colors, the blood of demons would have to have different pigments floating in their blood. However, I must note that the pigments need not be biologically relevant. We have different eye colors (not nearly as varied), but they do not cause any significant metabolic differences. The different colors in demon blood would then come about through different percentages of each pigment.Junghalli wrote:Edit: something else just occurred to me while I was thinking along these lines. If Demons are allergic to iron, are we to presume they use something other than hemoglobin? I remember it saying earlier that they had different colors of blood.
The gold can be a facade for a real structure, yes.Pelranius wrote:Could it be possible that Yahweh is using some sort of 'magic' (for the want of a better term on my part) trick to make gold into a structurally acceptable building material?