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Actually particle accelerators are EXTREMLY inefficent even if we assume 1:1 return on input energy to output energy at the emitter, particle accelerators capable of dense streams require focusing devices. Focusing a particle stream takes many times more energy then the actual emitter, the denser th...

Not quite true Mjolnir, Magnatized plasma field extending a few million kilometers wouldnt have to be very dense to recharge some of the particles in a dense neutral particle beam and have the beam rip itself apart due to electrostatic repulsion and particle collisions. The beam wouldnt be stoped bu...

The argument is based on some people missreading what I wrote, then attempting to argue outsider railgun specifics as if they had access to real world outsider tests in response to a statement of fact, instead of simply admitting they fracked up. Rosen its a question of species evoloution. You inven...

The loroi effectively cant lie to each other.. So the propaganda that human Civilization is full of wouldnt work for the Loroi. Dont think its possible for the Loroi govement to hide anything from the masses without locking up and throwing away the key for everyone who know what needs to be hidden, ...

I corrected my post yesterday and NOT today, no one had posted in response to it either. What I corrected, was when I posted I was tired and said the Projectile had 4* the energy not 2* when it had half the mass. Post was besides that and me stating I edited it, was left untouched. You do not get qu...

You really should take the time to read what people are actually saying. He said halving the mass doesn't double the speed and energy. It doubles the acceleration. The assumption is clearly that force and gun length are equal, he's comparing how projectile mass and exit velocity scale relative to e...

Then humans are screwed ;P Since Loroi are superior to humans in everything BUT Social structure and physical strength. They seem smarter They have telepathic and telekintic abilities They require far less food. They can live on larger extremes of hot or cold worlds 70% female breeding rapidly will ...

You said increasing speed doesnt increase energy, then made a comment about acceleration. You arguing with physics then? Or are you arguing its impossible to make railguns able to project something that fast? Then I would like to point out small projectiles have been accelerated to over 30kms in rea...

fredgiblet The muzzle velocity was listed, not acceleration for terran mass drivers. Double Velocity and you quadruple the KE. Just a point. Terrans are Terraforming basicly any world they come across they think can be usefull. Meanwhile the Loroi and Umiak are rendering worlds barren and no mention...

I know its a web comic.. but it makes no sense at all that Terran ships would fire such massive rounds.

Half the weight double the speed and you still have double the energy.
Pluss double the effective range.

Need to stop making midnight posts...
Edited to be correct.

The wording used in outsider insider has no room for ambiguity

The Loroi were using weapons and systems similar to what the Terrans have now (plus fighters) in the big war that formed their empire several hundred years ago.

http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/forum_terrans.html

Crichton wrote:But Humans are Superior!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BljF9em ... age#t=156s

Insider states humans are 200 years behind the Loroi. It was stated on the forums Humans advance 10 times faster then the Loroi. Humans are said in outsider to be 3 generations behind the Loroi. 200/10=20 20/3=~6.6 Depending on how long Current generation of ships have been around... Humans are betw...

Arioch brought up cpu's so I will focus on this. After the Pentium Intell started work on a new memory and bus interface for there chips, they spent 15 years attempting to improve this design and then in around 2007 ended up droping it completely.. it was a DEAD END in design and performance. They w...

Since snipping apparently isnt frowned upon on these forums(cutting posts up with quotes and spamming the forum) IM going to do so too, except remove my own posts for the sake of not blowing out posts into mutipage responses with just a few words of new material. Yes, they've been at war for 25 year...

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 ...

lets forget all the arguing on what ifs and focus on the simple stated FACTs. Its been stated humans WONT be providng military help. Its been stated Humanity is only 3 generations behind.. and thats without help... Generation is between 30-60 years depending if generation means Technology or people....

Mjolnir English words Magnet comes from Anient greek. Figured I would edit my post, and that Technicly they are not "rare" Earth magnets so you are infact right. However they still allow them to recreate a motor.. current rare earth magnets have only been around since the 70s, with manmade or natura...

Mjolnir One point I will agree on production is a problem. However you stated from Theory to practice.. and theory to practice is a HELL of alot diffrent from working version and copying it. ANY bronze age Civilization could create a electric motor if given current day working permamanget version. I...

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. Strawman argument, they are NOT the same thing. Every day in the real commerical world...