Utopian Enforcer Cannon is a multi-cannon ?

[Rubbernuke]

This is true.

Socks. Throw them in the washing machine, one will always disappear.


I'm not supposed to read this forum at work so it was with difficulty that I managed to refrain from laughing out loud while reading it. Very entertaining

So my socks get to infinite velocity and enter witchspace? Is that why I can't find them as Thargoids have them?

This thread has taught me much.

 

[Taimaru]

Darth Ender, I think you should contact NASA and tell them they have been doing it wrong all this time

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/K-12/airplane/newton.html

 

[CakeEngine]

So my socks get to infinite velocity and enter witchspace? Is that why I can't find them as Thargoids have them?

This thread has taught me much.

Oh my, this puts Thargoids in a total different light. Maybe they aren't as generally hostile as mankind has thought of them. They might be just peeved off because of all the smelly socks we had flinged at them for centurys.

 

[Cosmos]

What makes me sad is that regardless of energy and velocity why does a round fired above a certain range do no damage if it hits a target? Does it magically vanish?

 

[Don Alvarez]

Personally, I'd rather have the fantastical Cannon with Hyper-Acceleration rocket bullets. I could dash off to about 200km, then one shot battlecruisers. Hooray for abstract theoretical proto-physics!

 

[CMDR Bloodhawk]

Let this be a reminder of the inadequacy of the American school system. I'm assuming the OP is American given his brazen certainty in the face of overwhelming evidence.

 

[Innigo]

It's sad that he's obviously realised his mistake (given his absense from this thread, but not the forum) and isn't big enough to admit it

 

[Don Alvarez]

I just realized - this thread completly explains what happened to Starship One and why no wreckage was ever found. It was taken out by an enforcer slug fired 564ly away. The wreckage, is still out there by Andromeda somewhere, accelerating. But everyone on board is fine.

 

[Hiten Bongz]

Let this be a reminder of the inadequacy of the American school system. I'm assuming the OP is American given his brazen certainty in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Cheap shot there, how about you don't generalize the education of an entire nations population based on one internet-idiot, K? You don't even know he's American and yet you're insulting an entire country based on the assumption he is?

That makes you look a bit ignorant yourself, mate.

 

[wheels29]

Cheap shot there, how about you don't generalize the education of an entire nations population based on one internet-idiot, K? You don't even know he's American and yet you're insulting an entire country based on the assumption he is?

That makes you look a bit ignorant yourself, mate.

To be fair, physics is often not taught in school in America until college, so he kind of has a point. This coming from someone who graduated from an American high school, our schools aren't great. That being said, OP was not too bright. Had he even taken the time to do a quick google search, he would have been shown how wrong he was. And at one point, I saw mention of satellites being a good example of Newton's 1st law. It's a terrible example as satellites are continuously being acted upon by an outside force (earths gravity) and as a result, constantly accelerating (free-falling). People often have this odd perception that any object that move in any direction going 10 km/hr has the same velocity. This isn't true, velocity is a vector, so it has a speed and a direction, any change in either constitutes as acceleration.

 

[Hiten Bongz]

To be fair, physics is often not taught in school in America until college, so he kind of has a point. This coming from someone who graduated from an American high school, our schools aren't great.

Either way, it's not appropriate to make such sweeping generalizations based on one instance or event. I'm pretty sure I could find some people that "act like the OP" in every country in the world. That doesn't mean that every nations school system or populace is a bunch of morons.

Just getting tired of all of the anti-American slander that's been circulating for a while. Most of it is due to Hollywood sensationalism and that certainly is not a representation of every American citizen; not even close to the majority.

Poking fun at the OP is one thing, making slanderous comments about an entire countries education is uncalled for.

 

[Riktar]

To be fair, physics is often not taught in school in America until college, so he kind of has a point. This coming from someone who graduated from an American high school, our schools aren't great.

To make a (valid) point, you cite a fact, not an assumption.

 

[Riktar]

Either way, it's not appropriate to make such sweeping generalizations based on one instance or event. I'm pretty sure I could find some people that "act like the OP" in every country in the world. That doesn't mean that every nations school system or populace is a bunch of morons.

Just getting tired of all of the anti-American slander that's been circulating for a while.

While it does get tiresome, their are advantages to being underestimated.

 

[Eidolon]

I think the OP has a fair point as far as the physics go. Not so worried about the weapon, as I will never get one or be shot at by one.

But it is pretty obvious when you come to think about it. Endless acceleration imparted to an object given a push...

Those poor suckers at ESA and NASA spending all that time and effort, not to mention the money to try to get to mars right now.
Who would of thought they would of over looked just pushing the craft towards Mars a bit and letting physic take over to endlessly accelerate it for free, to no doubt eventually reach superluminal velocities as well.....

Obvious really, now where did I put my medication?

 

[SE-Apocalypse]

nobody here understands Newton's Second law. This makes me sad for humanity.


edit: i'll break it down for you.

kinetic energy is mass * velocity. (.5mv^2 to be exact)
Velocity is the differential of acceleration to time.

Acceleration to an object in the vacuum of space is constant unless a force acts upon it (this would be gravity, thrusters, another object colliding etc). Unlike the previous post, velocity is not constant, acceleration is.

So the longer my projectile is in space the higher the velocity is. Since the velocity is going to increase at the same acceleration for as long as it doesn't collide with something, the kinetic energy will increase.

A projectile weapon like a cannon should have it's weakest damage at point blank range. It's highest damage at whatever the furthest distance the game will register an impact (4km seems to be the upper limit). While it may be unreasonable to ask the game engine to render correct kinematic physics like ever increasing velocity of projectiles, it would be trivial to modify the damage the same way (but inversely) as it's done for energy weapons.

So Earth is accelerating constantly until our little mothership reaches escape velocity and our journey to other stars begins? ;-)

Amazing 15 pages, the troll is strong in this one
10/10

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What makes me sad is that regardless of energy and velocity why does a round fired above a certain range do no damage if it hits a target? Does it magically vanish?

That seems to be the most reasonable explanation. Having those bullets to run around for all eternity in space sounds rather performance hungry.

 

[Lima]

FD should make a one-day event where the game's physics works as described by the unfortunate OP. Then they should roll the servers back after the inevitable destruction of the galaxy.

 

[wheels29]

So Earth is accelerating constantly until our little mothership reaches escape velocity and our journey to other stars begins? ;-)

Technically, earth is constantly accelerating, it's just accelerating towards the sun. And there are objects that, due to their extremely elliptical orbit, can orbit an object for years only to escape their orbit.

 

[Sysmon]

Can we get back to the point, please? It's all good to display a lack of (or lack of a lack of? I'm confused) understanding of basics physics? (constant acceleration? Really? Is it an orbit gun?).

But is it a good faction weapon or not? Fixed class 1? Where is its utility? On an Asp? All over an Anaconda?

S

 

[Commander Pickle]

Your argument regarding kinetic damage changing at distances opposes physical laws. Space is a vacuum which allows matter to travel at constant speed forever until acted on by an outside force. That means the force of an impact by a bullet stays the same no matter how far it travels

 

[ChubbyBunneh]

So how long will it take for the Sun to accelerate to the speed of light and drag all the planets with it?