"after the time i spend in the witch-head i found this!"

[WinterKing2112]

Screw the laws of physics. More like suggestions of physics if you ask me. You realize we move incredibly faster than light in game, right?

 

[Cmdr_Prussian]

I actually like that these weapons can't be engineered. The purpose is probably to maintain a steady difficulty balance in AX fighting. It's not meant to be easier

 

[Brrokk]

I think our understanding of physics will be far better by the 31st century. Look how far we've come in the last 1,000 years! To think we now know everything is how the Catholic Church used to look at things!

I know that's only a throwaway gibe really, but maybe you're not aware of how the Catholic Church supported and encouraged science in previous centuries.

 

[WinterKing2112]

I know that's only a throwaway gibe really, but maybe you're not aware of how the Catholic Church supported and encouraged science in previous centuries.

You could be right. I just remember the Church threatening Galileo with torture and death if he did not recant his belief that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Examples like that have put the Church in a bad light in the past.

 

[[PS4] Filthymick420]

Ah, the good ole days lol

 

[Maolagin]

You could be right. I just remember the Church threatening Galileo with torture and death if he did not recant his belief that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Examples like that have put the Church in a bad light in the past.

List of Catholic clergy scientists - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Now it's worth pointing out that "the sciences" weren't really a distinct concept in the era when many of those people lived. It could also be argued that the phenomenon of so many natural philosophers being connected to the clergy has less to do with the Church actively supporting science than with clergy accounting for a large fraction of the educated class in Europe then. Still, the case of Galileo is the exception rather than the rule. The vast majority of those Medieval and Renaissance era Church-affiliated scientists and proto-scientists pursued their work without much direct interference, including astronomers both before and after Galileo.

I think our understanding of physics will be far better by the 31st century. Look how far we've come in the last 1,000 years! To think we now know everything is how the Catholic Church used to look at things!

Unpopular opinion: we're going to make many fewer fundamental discoveries in the next 1000 years than in the previous.

The last millennium included revolutions in the conduct of science (empiricism, controlled experiment and the rest of the scientific method, dissemination of results via print etc) that enabled a systematic process of converting observations into formal understandings about the world. After several centuries of that, most of the low-hanging fruit has been picked. In most fields, science has largely moved on to the "shoulders of giants" phase where huge numbers of researchers can productively spend careers exploring the consequences of fundamental principles. In the case of physics, there is an abundance of open questions in areas like materials science, turbulence, biophysics, astrophysics ... but comparatively few researchers still working in fundamental areas like kinematics or quantum field theory.

 

[Brrokk]

Galileo's problem wasn't really his idea, but the way he publicised it. He wrote a dialogue in which a clever scientist explained the heliocentric theory to a clueless buffoon - and the buffoon was easily recognisable as the Pope! That was never going to go down well with the Church.

 

[WinterKing2112]

Galileo's problem wasn't really his idea, but the way he publicised it. He wrote a dialogue in which a clever scientist explained the heliocentric theory to a clueless buffoon - and the buffoon was easily recognisable as the Pope! That was never going to go down well with the Church.

Makes you wonder why an intelligent guy like Galileo deliberately @#$%^& off someone who could very easily have had him tortured and killed! Myself, I would have tried very hard not to @#$% off anyone who could have had me tortured and killed.