Religous Argumentationating

[P3nT4gR4m]

Drinking is merely the catalyst. It's what we get up to when drunk that leaves our tourists in therapy

And your sheep in trauma.

Or is that the Welsh?  I can't tell you guys apart.

Our bovines have been known to produce the odd offspring with opposable thumbs but that's more Paynes department. Down here in the civilised* central region, we're more about the violence and cannibalism.




*comparatively speaking

[East Coast Hustle]

At first it was pretty much a troll topic, but I actually am interested in understanding peoples beliefs, and why they hold them. Kinda helps that I'm used to/expect/dont mind being wrong or corrected on a regular basis. Generally if you end up thinking the same way as when you started, you werent asking the right questions.

Blight, its somewhat related to the above, generally people react based on how secure in their beliefs they are. If people become agitated and hostile when their beliefs are questioned, they don't hold them strongly, and i want to know what they are and why. If they take it in stride and reply, they hold their beliefs strongly, and I am more interested in them. If people react like you lot, it means its going to be fun.

I believe that people who hold strong beliefs of any sort are idiots.

[East Coast Hustle]

Dammit, we went from "I call myself wiccan because I like the sound of it" all the way to "I'MMA BUILD A HOVERBOARD WIFF A SOLENOID!" while I was at work.



This kid might be an idiot, but he's an entertaining idiot and he at least seems interested in something besides skinny jeans and bad music, unlike almost every other 17 year old kid I know. Idiocy can be grown out of or gotten over more easily than the desire for MAD SCIENCE can be instilled in the uninterested.

[Requia ☣]

Hells yes. I have little to no justification for it, nor do i have any kind of expertise or degree to prove i'm correct, but Ill keep it anyway.
Like that hoverboard idea. Any electrical engineers here?

Only works over ferrous metal.  Sorry.

That's abuse of Ferrets. I know they are magical and can help your hoverboards float... but its no excuse!

Science requires heaps of dead rodents to move forward.  It's sad, but that's the way it is.

Incidentally, do undead rodents count as Science!?

A solenoid[nb 1] is a coil wound into a tightly packed helix.

Yes.  You buy a solenoid valve at Grainger and pop the spool out of it.  $90, done.  UNNNNNG!

Don't lecture me, kid.  I've been assembling oddball shit since you were a dirty thought.

This seems like an excessive amount of work.

*wraps some copper wire around a pencil*

I INVENTED A SOLENOID
   /

[Faust]

Look at least he said hoverboard instead of rail gun, which is the standard choice of magic tech idiots choose these days.
There is something altogether wholesome about delusions of making a hover board instead of weaponry.

[Jasper]

He wants to be like the kid from Transformers with the jet powered skateboard.

[P3nT4gR4m]

wiccan = braindead

solenoid = bolt gun

move on...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Look at least he said hoverboard instead of rail gun, which is the standard choice of magic tech idiots choose these days.
There is something altogether wholesome about delusions of making a hover board instead of weaponry.

Balls.  Did Darth Vader blow up those Alderran tards with a hover board?

Fuck no.

GIANT.  FUCKING.  LASER.

[Faust]

Look at least he said hoverboard instead of rail gun, which is the standard choice of magic tech idiots choose these days.
There is something altogether wholesome about delusions of making a hover board instead of weaponry.

Balls.  Did Darth Vader blow up those Alderran tards with a hover board?

Fuck no.

GIANT.  FUCKING.  LASER.

Gaint lasers aren't cool any more according to the youth of today it always has to be rail gun or nanomachines with this lot.
Personally I want a tesla coil on the roof of my house, and I'm actually in a very good position now to make it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Look at least he said hoverboard instead of rail gun, which is the standard choice of magic tech idiots choose these days.
There is something altogether wholesome about delusions of making a hover board instead of weaponry.

Balls.  Did Darth Vader blow up those Alderran tards with a hover board?

Fuck no.

GIANT.  FUCKING.  LASER.

Gaint lasers aren't cool any more according to the youth of today it always has to be rail gun or nanomachines with this lot.
Personally I want a tesla coil on the roof of my house, and I'm actually in a very good position now to make it.

Also, rail guns present an interesting technical problem, where the pull from one magnet is fighting the drag from the next, even if you cut the power to the magnets in series.  I'm thinking you'd have to degauss the magnets in series with a jolt of AC current.

[Faust]

Look at least he said hoverboard instead of rail gun, which is the standard choice of magic tech idiots choose these days.
There is something altogether wholesome about delusions of making a hover board instead of weaponry.

Balls.  Did Darth Vader blow up those Alderran tards with a hover board?

Fuck no.

GIANT.  FUCKING.  LASER.

Gaint lasers aren't cool any more according to the youth of today it always has to be rail gun or nanomachines with this lot.
Personally I want a tesla coil on the roof of my house, and I'm actually in a very good position now to make it.

Also, rail guns present an interesting technical problem, where the pull from one magnet is fighting the drag from the next, even if you cut the power to the magnets in series.  I'm thinking you'd have to degauss the magnets in series with a jolt of AC current.

That's how the prototype on the ship does it. The degauss can only work so fast so they need a good spacing between the magnets to allow for the projectile to accelerate while also getting the timing right on the switching, ends up being massive, hence only ship mounted.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Look at least he said hoverboard instead of rail gun, which is the standard choice of magic tech idiots choose these days.
There is something altogether wholesome about delusions of making a hover board instead of weaponry.

Balls.  Did Darth Vader blow up those Alderran tards with a hover board?

Fuck no.

GIANT.  FUCKING.  LASER.

Gaint lasers aren't cool any more according to the youth of today it always has to be rail gun or nanomachines with this lot.
Personally I want a tesla coil on the roof of my house, and I'm actually in a very good position now to make it.

Also, rail guns present an interesting technical problem, where the pull from one magnet is fighting the drag from the next, even if you cut the power to the magnets in series.  I'm thinking you'd have to degauss the magnets in series with a jolt of AC current.

That's how the prototype on the ship does it. The degauss can only work so fast so they need a good spacing between the magnets to allow for the projectile to accelerate while also getting the timing right on the switching, ends up being massive, hence only ship mounted.

What velocity are we talking, here? 

Also, lesson learned from this magic tech idiot:  Do never use PVC pipe as the rail.   

[pH]

Skinny jeans are for retards and women, I wear regular jeans and collared shirts.

Giant lasers are badass, but as far as weapons go, a depleted uranium core HEAT round can put a hole in pretty much anything.
Although I do know some AC-130s are fitted with lasers in the nose of the plane that are linked with tracking systems to shoot down incoming missiles.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Skinny jeans are for retards and women, I wear regular jeans and collared shirts.

Giant lasers are badass, but as far as weapons go, a depleted uranium core HEAT round can put a hole in pretty much anything.
Although I do know some AC-130s are fitted with lasers in the nose of the plane that are linked with tracking systems to shoot down incoming missiles.

NO FUCKING STYLE.

Any damn fool can use a HEAT round, or a sabot, or any of that shit.  Giant lasers and big Goddamn EMP bombs are where it's at.

Shit yeah.

[Jasper]

I too am more a fan of high calibre ammunition for pure penetrative power.

But honestly?  Practicality can piss up a rope.  I want a laser.