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If you're talking about Lewis and Simon, you're totally right They absolutely have no idea as to what they're doing. However, Duncan (The guy who knows what he's doing) has his own series, and it's very informative. I myself used it to get started, and it was very helpful. He covers pretty much all IC, most of EE,and little bits of RP and BC.
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As for the the cooling problem, you're right... Unless... We could take snowman and compress the snow they produce into ice cubes to cool the reactor down? Oh wait... The pellet idea is pretty good actually. It all comes down to ancient weaponry. Ancient AA (Anti-Aviation) wouldn't use normal guns, because the planes were too fast to be targeted efficiently by hand. They would use "flak" weaponry. Those shells were timed to explode fairly near the target and shower it with smaller projectiles. This is the same principle as yours, the missiles are like the flak shells, and when they explode fairly near the enemy target, they send a bunch of smaller projectiles on the enemy. At extremely high speed too. If two satellites orbiting in opposed directions were to hit each other, the impact would be incredible; imagine, two bodies travelling at an average of 5 km/s hitting each other. Quite the bang.
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Of course we'll be using nuclear fission up there, petroleum will be long depleted and solar energy isn't even an option with the quantities of energy needed, it's even probable that when we get there we will finally have developed nuclear fusion, which is even more productive, efficient and compact, and could probably provide energy in quantities permitting things such as rail/coilguns. However, I didn't think about the guided missiles you mentioned; they would indeed be a great solution. But the counter defense would be relatively easy; you just have to shot down the missile before it's too close, after all. And there is still the lasers that I talked about earlier. As they go at the speed of light, they won't have the problems of projectile shooting weapons. But they might lack in destructive power.
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I'm sorry if I sounded as offensive as I apparently was. I simply answered your question at the best of my knowledge. Didn't mean to be "A big arsehole to a new member". It's an ability I didn't have knowledge I had.
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Sure, this thing shoots fast. But I would like to know if we could obtain the muzzle speed of the bullets. As for the railguns, it can attain tremendous speeds, attaining as much as 6000 m/s for a ten kg weight. For smaller weights, comparable to heavy conventional bullets, 20 km/s were attained. This means that, friction aside, the bullet rounds the earth in 1000 seconds, or about the third of an hour. I also know that the highest muzzle velocities we can get with chemical propulsion is around 1700 m/s. Quite a big difference uh? This becomes especially important in space, where the ships themselves can go as fast as bullets. If the velocity of your projectile is too slow, the enemy can literally "dodge" the bullets. After all, it will probably be extremely rare combats happen at less than multiple kilometers of distance; in space there is nowhere to hide.
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If the wiki or a search can't answer your question, we're all open ears :)
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The whole point of having Tekkit is a MP version of Technic. Tekkit is as near as it possibly can be to Technic, so, not happening, sorry.
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We're all very subtle people indeed. But I actually checked their youtube channel, it's really 2 million. I was pretty surprised too.
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I love this subtle way to suggest half of the Yogscast's audience is children :D
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Argh, redstone engineering has a pretty steep learning curve. But at least, once you got, you got it. Just look at this mess. But it's all neat and tidy inside, so it's all good. I,m more than half-way through, only the electric dungeon and the final levels to go.
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More cup armor, more, more! It's the most important part );
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Please don't, we all laugh at something silly sometimes. It doesn't matter how many times I see this, I still chuckle, even though it's a good ol' penis joke. Edit : I wonder, can I get warned for posting something NSFW, even if it was made by one the site's founders? I'll see soon enough...
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The only disappointing thing is that the idiot isn't actually trying to defend himself, it's much less fun this way. I like when they struggle. http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0807/your-resistance-demotivational-poster-1214971229.jpg
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How is that a challenge? You get a diamond each ten second with all that...
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Thanks for the help with the tesla coils! I'm experiencing with a system to automatically feed an MSFU tons of lapotron crystals (charged, obviously), I'll see if I can make that work. If someone knows how I can put charged crystals in, and remove them as soon as they're empty, that would be a great help. Now, a little update as to what is going on : In order, the first, second, third and fourth floor. You don't really see anything of the second floor, but it's because it's mostly interior. All you're seeing right now includes, among others, treasure search, shark death trap, surprise zombie swarming, pigmen arena, "Blazing Stairs" as I called them and jumping puzzles, as well as two strategically placed rest areas. You may have noticed the theme of the dungeons, that are nothing original, but was used in the original game. Water, Fire, Earth (To come), Air (Electricity, in this case). Two levels for each element. Nothing here is stuck in stone, and I'm always accepting criticism to improve the lot. However, I haven't finalized the aesthetic aspect of the whole thing yet, I might do that in the end, or when I'm more advanced.
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I always thought I was the only one crazy enough to actually follow this guy... His video "Because" is very hypnotizing. The one about the queen is epic too.
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Not only that, but conventional weapons need a shell, or a casing for the bullet to be into, and this casing needs to be ejected with a specific mechanism. A railgun only needs the bullet by itself, so it would be a much more efficient fast shooting weapon. However, the recoil would be tremendous, but the future soldiers could probably adapt to this. In parenthesis, I just saw something pretty incredible. The US military has plans for a gigantic mass driver posed on moon, that would be able to shoot meteoric-like projectiles (In terms of speed and mass) on the earth, making for a non-nuclear mass destruction weapon that could aim for any place in the globe, as long as it faces the moon. This is scary and horrible, but I also can't help but find it epic. By has plans, I mean it is a possibility among their others world-control project, not like they're going to start building it in ten years.
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The order of millions.
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What about sleep apnea? Do you suffer from it? This sites gives good advice as to how to cure it.
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I wonder too, what would happen if one of those metal cutting lasers was sent against a mirror. Would the laser generate enough energy to melt the mirror, even though he is reflected? I find it beautifully ironic that we went from a rant against telling kids guns are good to how cool spacial warfare is .
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Now that I think about it, we totally rejected lasers. Lasers with extremely high intensity can be made, even today, and could soon be used as weapons. There are even some handheld lasers that can cut through wood. Plus, I've also heard about anti missile lasers that track down incoming ballistic weapons and beam them with enough energy to make them explode. Not only that, but lasers travel at the speed of light, so they could be used at very big distances without having to adjust the aim to follow the trajectory of the target. They would be great as spatial weapons.
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Wow, it's like a Star Wars generic, but with colors and blockier... Amazing!
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Are aware there is already a suggestion thread for this purpose? Also, I don't get why you made three times the same thread...
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The horrible moment when you get ads from a lesbian dating agency, and you're a straight man... OH GOD WHY.