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Lets take the assumption that they cant make faster railguns. Can't make faster railguns that are comparable in price:performance ratio != can't make faster railguns. Why use them at all. Why not just missiles.. and DO think very hard before you answer that. Cheap ammo, good enough for the enemies ...

Alex watches the battle "hey why dont you put your guns so thy can shoot backwards, and use your superior speed to enlarge the engagement range and Umiak Missile time till Intercept so you have far longer to intercept enemy missiles. and then blow the hell out of the Umiak ships beyond there own en...

@Battleraptor Some clarity finally comes out of your posts. I do finally see what you've been saying all along and I apologize for my misinterpretation. Your post has finally become clear to me. On the other hand, you are still dropping the idea that humans can simply build a mass driver that double...

That argument was so utterly disjointed from reality I didn't know where to start. Using the relative visual brightness of LCD and CRT monitors to judge the efficiency at focusing a particle beam? Wait, is THAT what he was doing? I haven't been paying attention because I don't know enough about the...

1.I never said it wasnt, smarty pants. Weapons however when they change what they fire also need to change, its common sense. Of course, you know what else is common sense? That if you don't specifically state that a weapon will have a significantly different design that the aforementioned changes ...

You decided to get into the argument with a statement I made in this very thread, the argument was based on the assumption I implied that THE SAME RAILGUN that fires pellet with reduced weight would have double the velocity, and you argued because of inefficiencies it wouldnt 1. You never stated th...

Railgun projectiles don't stay in the gun for long...about 10 microseconds was quoted for the Navy railguns. Making the weapon longer helps, but also produces longer conductors that slow pulse rise times and increase losses, plus experience more severe stresses during firing...also makes the thing ...

BattleRaptor wrote: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.

I very much wonder what thread you've been reading.

Wait, I have to ask why though. 8500 m/s is about what they would get out of cutting mass in half if efficiency stayed the same but it wouldn't since they're trying to pump a round out much faster out of an already extremely high-performance device. Specific numbers are impossible to guess because ...

*CRICKETS IN THE BACKGROUND AS AWARENESS DAWNS* Since you haven't been very clear so far so I'll ask for clarification, are you talking about an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT mass driver? If not then my and Mjolnir's posts still stand. If yes then you still run into the issues with actually building such a we...

Who might not pay much heed to the cultural barriers of communication since they interfere in weapons R&D. We aren't talking about something that they can just turn off and move on from. The communications issue comes from their BIOLOGY, not from, say, a holy book that can be re-interpreted in a di...

You said increasing speed doesnt increase energy No, I didn't. At all. then made a comment about acceleration. You stated that halving mass would double speed, this is false, halving mass would double acceleration . However, increased acceleration will reduce the amount of time that the slug is acc...

BattleRaptor wrote:fredgiblet
The muzzle velocity was listed, not acceleration for terran mass drivers.

...And?

Also I assume you reduce your maximal muzzle velocity by increasing round size. I'm not well versed in electrical engineering, but I have a hunch that the relationship between mass and electrical energy required to accelerate it to a given speed isn't linear (as with rocket fuel and ship speed). Fo...

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...

Karst45 wrote:OMG THE CURRENT HUMEN SHIPS MIGHT BE ABLE TO COMPETE MILITARILY IN X Y OR Z IMPLAUSIBLE SCENARIO!!!!1!one!

...Well...the Umiak Ultra-heavy DOES have really good shields...and mass drivers aren't really affected by shields...

Lets try and figure out what technological generations may mean in Outsider...*snip* My notion is that it's really our culture that makes us advance rapidly. Human technology advanced very slowly throughout most of human history, sometimes going forward and sometimes backsliding with the fall of ci...

Wintermute wrote:I believe they have in the past, they're just exceedingly rare.

Not a race no. Individuals of various apparently can develop/have Lotai, but humans are the only species that appears to have it a base feature.

In addition to CptWinters, there's 2 main possibilities, either Alex is a plant or he isn't, if he is then the black box isn't important anyway since it will only contain lies, if he is we move to split 2. In split 2 there's three choices, either we knew exactly where to go, we had a good idea of wh...

Rosen_Ritter_1 wrote:which COULD directly point them to earth

I doubt the mission planners would be that careless.