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[Rolan7]

My friends and I are pretty sure they're vampires.  Particularly after the blood video.  The drone army is so they can take over the world during the daylight (along with ghouls on motorcycles).

[Neonivek]

One thing I find odd is this sort of "selective Sci-Fi" people kind of have.

In that they will accept SOME things as sci-fi whether or not they are already real or on the horizon. Such as say... Lasers.

While they will consider other things to be actual factual modern day stuff, such as the fantasy EMP bomb which disables all electronics in a wide area, that aren't encased in lead, with absolutely no side effects whatsoever.

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Then again this isn't anything really unique to Sci-fi... It is probably the most maligned fictional setting I ever seen with people arguing and fighting over what is sci-fi and what isn't regardless of the setting.

It is a lot like the "What is an RPG" arguments of videogames. (cut because I don't want to get in that argument here... Since it always goes in one of two directions)

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I dunno, I wish I knew enough about Science to explain exactly why the "Magic EMP Bomb" is, currently, impossible or at least improbable.

And before you say "Nuclear bomb" I state that a "Magic EMP Bomb" causes no physical explosion.

[Egan_BW]

I say they're patent trolls, hoping that in the distant future someone makes something vaguely similar to their insane contraptions, and they'll have these videos to prove that they came up with it first.

[Radio Controlled]

I dunno, I wish I knew enough about Science to explain exactly why the "Magic EMP Bomb" is, currently, impossible or at least improbable.

And before you say "Nuclear bomb" I state that a "Magic EMP Bomb" causes no physical explosion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator

An explosively pumped flux compression generator (EPFCG) is a device used to generate a high-power electromagnetic pulse by compressing magnetic flux using high explosive.
An EPFCG only ever generates a single pulse as the device is physically destroyed during operation. An EPFCG package that could be easily carried by a person can produce pulses in the millions of amperes and tens of terawatts.[citation needed] They require a starting current pulse to operate, usually supplied by capacitors.
Explosively pumped flux compression generators are popular as power sources for electronic warfare devices known as transient electromagnetic devices that generate an electromagnetic pulse without the costs and side effects of a nuclear weapon. They also can be used to accelerate objects to extreme velocities and compress objects to very high pressures and densities; this gives them a role as a physics research tool.
The first work on these generators was conducted by the VNIIEF center for nuclear research in Sarov in the U.S.S.R. at the beginning of the 1950s followed by Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.
These devices provide opportunities for ultrahigh magnetic-field experiments in quantum chemistry and molecular physics.[1]

[EnigmaticHat]

EMPs aren't magic.  You just have to detonate a nuclear bomb miles above the target.

There may be unintended side effects. ^{[citation needed]}

[SOLDIER First]

unintended side effects: longterm emotional trauma because your giant robot saved everyone by letting the missile blow it up instead of the town

[TempAcc]

I say they're patent trolls, hoping that in the distant future someone makes something vaguely similar to their insane contraptions, and they'll have these videos to prove that they came up with it first.

Thats pretty much what they seem to be doing. They're an engineering company in turkey or somesuch, except they've been patenting all this weird shit in hope one of them actualy eventualy works so they can sue whoever actualy makes any of this (or anything vaguely similar to this) usable for millions :v

[Caz]

Drinking for 16hrs is pretty much a bad idea. Drinks, pub, house party, people tackling each other to the ground, police, handcuffs, yeah that's all fine.

But the drunk facebooking.

no.

I have no idea what I said, but I'm pretty sure I started messaging people. I took a peek at the tab and I have 9 notifications. NOPE.

Gonna delete myself and move to Switzerland - it is the only way.



Edit: Need to bottle that 5 minute window between being asleep and being awake, the really short moment when you're like "this is fine " and before the moment where everything you did the day before crashes onto your head. Somehow.

[TheBiggerFish]

Oh dear.

*patpatpat*

Hope nothing weird/bad was said.

[Caz]

Oh dear.

*patpatpat*

Hope nothing weird/bad was said.

Yeah I'm not even touching it, too scary. Luckily my friend reappeared so we're gonna sit on the balcony and get trashed - the traditional approach to solving one's problems.

[TheBiggerFish]

...So the solution to your problem.

Is more problem.

[hector13]

...So the solution to your problem.

Is more problem.

No, no, no.

The solution to the problem is making the problem worse, but later because your body now has more alcohol to deal with before making you feel crappy again.

At least I'm told that's how it works. A hangover usually keeps me in bed or the bathroom for the next day, and away from a alcohol for a few weeks until the next weekend.

Edit: that wasn't s'posed to post fackin' mornings.

What I was going to say was TBF's words as those of someone who has never experienced a hangover.

In saying that, Caz will likely have a worse hangover later, as now their body is dealing with the new alcohol rather than getting rid of... whatever chemical it changes it into to give you the wonderful hangover.

[Caz]

...So the solution to your problem.

Is more problem.

Now you're getting it.

A hangover usually keeps me in bed or the bathroom for the next day, and away from a alcohol for a few weeks until the next weekend.

Once you become an alcoholic you don't really get hangovers. Or you do, constantly, but they're kept at bay with an endless stream of wine.

[TheBiggerFish]

That's not a good solution.

[hector13]

I was attacked by Mothra last night, and it decided to hang about in the lampshade so I left it 'til today.

Mothra has disappeared.