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[Gizogin]

Reading through the last 4-5 pages of this... It reminds me why I would leave instantly.
It also reminds me why I love this community so much.

If we combined this entire community into it's own nation. We would rule the world within years.

... No, we probably wouldn't.
We'd die of infighting and !!SCIENCE!! inside of a month.

[JJtoocool]

I said we would rule (Edit: In hindsight, that was a horrible choice of words.) it... No be living to command it.

Everyone else would be dead from FTW weapons anyway. All of them would undoubtedly be extremely magma-paced-slow. It might take a few years for them to finish up is my thinking.

[Loud Whispers]

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PLASSMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I PROPOSE WE HARNESS THE SUN FOR WAR.

Here's a fun fact: if our sun went supernova tonight - i.e., while we're on the opposite side of the world - it would appear to be brilliant daylight outside. If it was a full moon, we'd actually burn to death in the moonlight. All while the other side of the planet boiled into space at over a hundred metres of rock per second. It would be, by all accounts, a rough night.

I don't think you're seeing the bigger picture here.

Once the sun uses up it's hydrogen reserves and becomes a red giant - engulfing mother Earth, it's very likely it'll go supernova and spread lovely plasma everywhere...

But there's also the chance it'll become a white Dwarf.

The Dwarves will weaponize plasma.

[Archereon]

^ Sorry but...


That's not how stars work.

The sun's mass isn't nearly that high.

[KodKod]

No, no, you've got it all wrong. It's impossible for the sun to go Supernova by itself.

That's why we need to apply ‼SCIENCE‼ to force its hand. What could be better than weaponising the sun itself by turning it into an explosive?

[Eric Blank]

Weaponizing it to turn it into a massive orbital bombardment system via lasers/a massive adamantine vacuum pump that hurls plasma at targets, for extremely direct targeting of targets that you really, really hate.

[Splint]

DERAIL DETECTED

CONTINUING OFF RAILS

SOLAR POWERED LASER GUNS

That is all.

[wierd]

Inefficient.

Solar plasma produces incoherent light, insuitable for laser energy weapons.

Now..... being dwarves, being underground, and with the disproportionate percentage of scientists and engineers..........


How long until we have a high powered particle accellerator, with which to produce a directed high energy proton beam?

Magma? HAH!   Watch as we cut mountains in half!

[Corai]

Inefficient.

Solar plasma produces incoherent light, insuitable for laser energy weapons.

Now..... being dwarves, being underground, and with the disproportionate percentage of scientists and engineers..........


How long until we have a high powered particle accellerator, with which to produce a directed high energy proton beam?

Magma? HAH!   Watch as we cut mountains in half!

OKAY THIEVES. NEW OBJECTIVE! DROP EVERYTHING, GO FOR MIRRORS! I REPEAT, MIRRORS, THE DWARVES ARE CREATING A SUPER-WEAPON! I REPEAT, MIRRORS! WINDOWS IF YOU CANT FIND MIRRORS!

[JJtoocool]

I have nothing productive to say about any this...








_{Other than that this solar weapon nonsense is a total derail...}

[wierd]

Protons aren't photons.  They laugh at your mirror antics!

The LHC proton beam is estimated to be able to blast through several meters of solid steel per second if left in continuous discharge.

Something about the mass stream traveling at 99% C......

[WillowLuman]

Well if people were kind enough to furnish my room with many cage traps and pump stacks, I'm sure with Girlinhat and Gizogin I could figure out an !!interesting!! application of buggered physics

[Archereon]

Hello everyone, I'm back from trying to create a metropolis in the middle of a fucking evil desert.

Many, many, dwarves died.

The last one was just plain embarassing. One of the militia dorfs went bezerk and killed everyone after his mate got swarmed by zombie ravens.

[wierd]

Given that overunity is easily accomplished in DF, the possibilities of what we can accomplish are litterally limitless.

The second law doesn't apply! Whee!

We could have hydro-electric starships, powered by artificial gravity made by centrifugal force, driving infinite energy waterwheels, that in turn power the artificial gravity system, *AND* have power left over for pure energy propulsion!

(On the most extreme end...)

[Corai]

Given that overunity is easily accomplished in DF, the possibilities of what we can accomplish are litterally limitless.

The second law doesn't apply! Whee!

We could have hydro-electric starships, powered by artificial gravity made by centrifugal force, driving infinite energy waterwheels, that in turn power the artificial gravity system, *AND* have power left over for pure energy propulsion!

(On the most extreme end...)

Or this.


*Starts running on giant hamster wheel*


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