Well of Souls Forums

Half the weight double the speed and you still have double the energy. Pluss double the effective range. Nope. Half the mass gives double the acceleration, the greater acceleration decreases the amount of time the slug is accelerating (since the barrel length isn't being increased) so the end resul...

Members of the crew of the scout ships, cannot be considered a representative sample of Outsider humanity. IIRC, Arioch has stated that crews of the scout ships have been very carefully selected. Indeed, it was not a typical mission and not a standard crew. They were selected to not screw up first ...

If I were to guess, I would think the wave motion gun creates plasma focus in the form of a huge and prolonged sine wave, with a back and fourth sweeping motion that allows it to hit more than one thing. I always pictured it as a multiply focused interwoven web of plasma, something like a caustics ...

I never said they were stupid, so how about you dont put words into my mouth.. ok? Also they are a military based civilization with 70% of there population in the military. This suggests that even during peace time great ammount of resources is spent on IMPROVING weapon related tech. That's not put...

Humans during peace time advance FAR slower then they do during war time, and the Loroi have been at war for 20 years and its been stated humans advance 10 times faster. Cold war is an exception in part due to the vast ammounts of money Russia and the USA spent on weapons research. However it could...

English words Magnet comes from Anient greek. Rare Earth magnets have quite large natural ground level despoits around Europe, the greeks used them quite alot as toys for kids novelty items and in experiments. CURRENT rare earth magnets used in elertonics are man made and created in the needed shap...

However you stated from Theory to practice.. and theory to practice is a HELL of alot diffrent from working version and copying it. I stated no such thing, I in fact have repeatedly mentioned things that we have working in labs, yet are years or decades from commercial implementation. You're talkin...

You are putting up a theory.. then saying because it took X time to develop theory into practice. that taking HARDWARE and then copying it requires the same ammount of development, as putting theory into practice. No, I'm not. We have hardware! We not only know in quite some details how memristors ...

yet without fail now that it has been worked out, with in a year or 2 other companies will be releasing there own versions..that work.. and are sufficently diffrent enough that they dont violate patant law. What's "it", the memristor memory? No, they'll be announcing their intent to develop such th...

It only takes one peice of stolen or gifted tech, and within the year, crack it, and just two more, chugging them out like crazy, on top of whatever unconventional ideas that had already been mulled over for decades/centuries but had not the technology to implement them. Even if we can figure out h...

I think she is still waiting for the 'other shoe to drop' with regards to this "ruse" of the wrecked human ship and this one convienant survivor of an unknown race. I think the Loroi can be reasonably sure he's no Umiak plant specifically because of this. They barely recovered one survivor, and ver...

Could anti-iron be held in a stable magnetic field? Easily. Stacking antiparticles together to form nuclei as heavy as iron would be quite difficult, though...you're talking a much longer reaction chain involving much more difficult reactions than you'd use for fusion power, with high-energy antine...

If it was a matter of choice, you would engineer the material the opposite direction. If at all possible you would make it so it was more reactive, more powerful, by mass so you could use less of it to achieve the same output. Regardless, are we discussing putting an uncontrolled annihilation react...

What good will that do when 5.2 kilotons of anti matter equivalent goes off in your ship? I'm REALLY doubtful that it's remotely practical to try to armor/shield your ships internally from that kind of blast going off from the inside. And the portion of the ship it was inside would likely be a tota...

Sure. If an Abrams gets hit in the ammo storage it's designed to blow out in a way that won't kill the crew. It's entirely possible that the ship is designed with an eye towards surviving a reactor failure. However the amount of energy that appears to have been released is likely more than can be r...

I have yet to see the new TRON (though it is on my list), but I seem to recall that in the original they didn't actually do any matter conversion. They broke down Flynn and suspended his atoms while he was in the virtual world and then put them back together again, albeit in a slightly different or...

The ship itself would conduct the heat and the ship is full of air so pressure waves would also happen. The blast it self would make a expending pressure waves strong enough to fight the vacuum of space and move into the rest of the ship. The thermal conductivity of the ship's materials is finite. ...

Even if the dynamic of explosion could leave some pockets safe for shockwave , the infernal heat would incinerate everyone and leave the dust on airless space . Do your arms instantly cook when you take things out of the oven? Even small objects can survive direct exposure to a thermonuclear fireba...

@ icekatze and Voitan there are no survivors because Heck there isn’t a winter tide anymore for that matter. Loroi ships carry a lot more anti-matter then two or three of the largest torpedoes combined ( more likely closer to a 100 times that or more.) all that exploded inside the ship where armor ...

Tron really just doesn't hold up to any significant level of inspection. The "laser" can convert a physical object into data and later reconstruct the original object with apparently no loss. Just storing the data involved ought to be far beyond anything we can currently imagine constructing, and th...