Overpopulation

[batzeus]

Well im done with high school...graduation cerimony in about a week.....i guess mabey i type a younger than i am, I have a habit to let my true personality out when im talking to complete strangers on the internet, but yea....um....go xbox modding!!!!

 

[linuxn00b2004]

LoL. That's not very personal. Just look at my sig! Our last day of school is in a little over a week. 9 actual days of school left, and then it's off to college! (As of right now, my plan is to become an electrical engineer and go into energy weapon development. HERF guns, EMP, plasma, lasers... neato! We'll see how things go. I intend on building a HERF gun or tesla coil this summer; if I ever get it finished, I'll post pictures of them...) w007!

- Greg

 

[Rookio]

Awesome!!! just we need!!!! more guns!!! better guns!!! lets kill people!!!!

*shakes head*

 

[Catalyst]

Awesome!!! just we need!!!! more guns!!! better guns!!! lets kill people!!!!

*shakes head*

If you can make a gun that can seek out and shoot stupid people you have my support. Sadly enough that invention will mark teh end of my mother-in-laws life... but sacrifices must be made.

 

[batzeus]

Speaking of guns...what is the name of that device that uses magnets....its not a gun, i dont think..but it uses like a hundred little magnetic balls all spaced evenly from one another and when you push the first one it starts a chain reaction eventually making the last one friggin rocket off!...does anyboddy know what its called or even know what im talking about?

 

[linuxn00b2004]

Awesome!!! just we need!!!! more guns!!! better guns!!! lets kill people!!!!

*shakes head*

None of the weapons I mentioned above actually affect organic targets unless they have a pacemaker. So, really, they are far less lethal weapons then chemically driven weapons.

EMP: Electromagnetic Pulse - does exactly as does in video games, destroys electronics.

HERF: High Energy Radio Frequency - same effect as electronmagnetic pulse, put uses much higher frequency. Tends to be shorter range, but much more targetable. You can create a mild one of these out of a commercial microwave through modification.

Plasma: I have no idea if weapons like this are in development, but if they are, then I want to work on them! I know, in theory, how they work.

Lasers: These a lot more uses then just killing people. In fact, these are much more useful in the commercial and defense market. They are currently used to shoot down ICMBs in their thrust phase, actually saving lives.

If you can make a gun that can seek out and shoot stupid people you have my support. Sadly enough that invention will mark teh end of my mother-in-laws life... but sacrifices must be made.

LoL, I think I just wet myself...

Speaking of guns...what is the name of that device that uses magnets....its not a gun, i dont think..but it uses like a hundred little magnetic balls all spaced evenly from one another and when you push the first one it starts a chain reaction eventually making the last one friggin rocket off!...does anyboddy know what its called or even know what im talking about?

What you are speaking about is an electromagnetic rail gun, wherein magnets are used to push and pull a projectile down the barrell. In theory, this is capable of launching projectiles far faster then by chemical means.

- Greg

 

[kimosabe]

I have a Nerf Gun.

 

[batzeus]

In theory, this is capable of launching projectiles far faster then by chemical means.

- Greg

Wouldnt that mean...in theory of course...that if each of those magnetic balls were to slowly progress to a larger size, than you would be able to move anything that you could give magnetism to....of course the rail would probably be miles long but the end result would be a massive amount of energy....i dont even know what im typing right now....im wayyy to tire to be talking about theories...

 

[Catalyst]

Read this

http://www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=526

It's about the DREAD weapon system...

It's a centrifugal weapons system. Centrifugal means really f-ing fast for you non-science types.

Now watch this...

http://dogwood.homeip.net/dread.mov

If you could save the link instead of streaminig is... So it doesn't kill my bandwidth. Thanks!

 

[linuxn00b2004]

Hmmm, interesting articles. Nice post.

That is a VERY interesting concept. But, the only problem with it is the fact it is a giant spinning disk that lets the ball ammo out of the middle, which means it can never be made small. It's not the next machine gun however, because it is impossible to create a "sub-compact" version. It would work great on a tank or helicoptor, however. They pretended it could be retro-fitted on many vechicles, but that is not likely. They would need extensive electronic and hardware modification first. Nevertheless, neato design.

- Greg

 

[djbass]

Just today we had an electrician in fixing a electric door lock... he had a soldering iron that ran off propane. It would basically shoot a fire into the tip to heat it... it was the coolest thing!

That's what I use actually. I invested in a propane soldering iron both for work and to use doing WiFi antenna installs & modding. I haven't touched my electric one since. I find it better than the electric one ever was, the heat is more consistant and I can vary it between 10 - 120W depending on the job. I did my X3 install using it with no hassles.

Plasma: I have no idea if weapons like this are in development, but if they are, then I want to work on them! I know, in theory, how they work.

If you want to look at it from a technical standpoint, a flamethrower could be considered a plasma weapon since that's all fire is

 

[linuxn00b2004]

If you want to look at it from a technical standpoint, a flamethrower could be considered a plasma weapon since that's all fire is

True. But I'm talking about the type of weapons you see in futuristic-style war movies and video games... those would be nifty. After all, it can't be that difficult. All ya need to do is pour a superheated plasma into an elecromagnetic chamber that morphes it to the desired shape and then use magnets to accelerate it out of a tube (perhaps charging the plasma 'glob' in such a way the the electrons on the outer skin stay bonded and create a 'skin' that will release the pocket of plasma when it his something substancial): how hard can THAT be? Phffft.

- Greg

 

[kimosabe]

Well geez Linux, why don't you go ahead and build us a Time-Machine already?!

 

[adb007123]

If you want to look at it from a technical standpoint, a flamethrower could be considered a plasma weapon since that's all fire is

wrong plasma is super heated matter that continually expands it would be imposible to have plasma in the Earth's atmospher do to the fact that it would just keep expanding inserating everything in it's wat unless you could some how make a small gravtiy filed that would contain the plasma like the ball that plasma grenades are kept in iin Halo just thought you might like that bit of info and abput the ginat maginc gun isnt there a nother one that isnt like that but more like (those firecrakers that are 48 rokets in a box but never work) but about 15,000 stacked on top of each other with a electric pulse trigger?

 

[kimosabe]

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wrong plasma is super heated matter that continually expands it would be imposible to have plasma in the Earth's atmospher do to the fact that it would just keep expanding inserating everything in it's wat unless you could some how make a small gravtiy filed that would contain the plasma like the ball that plasma grenades are kept in iin Halo just thought you might like that bit of info and abput the ginat maginc gun isnt there a nother one that isnt like that but more like (those firecrakers that are 48 rokets in a box but never work) but about 15,000 stacked on top of each other with a electric pulse trigger?

 

[kimosabe]

Fixed for ya

wrong plasma is super heated matter that continually expands it would be impossible to have plasma in the Earth's atmosphere due to the fact that it would just keep expanding insinerating everything in it's way unless you could some how make a small gravity field that would contain the plasma like the ball that plasma grenades are kept in in Halo just thought you might like that bit of info and about the giant magnetic gun isnt there another one that isnt like that but more like (those firecrakers that are 48 rockets in a box but never work) but about 15,000 stacked on top of each other with an electric pulse trigger?

 

[linuxn00b2004]

Sorry adb007123, but you are incorrect on this matter. While I am no expert, I do know my chemistry fairly well.

A plasma is the fourth state of matter wherein the molecules have so much energy, the electrons seperate from the nucleous, creating a "soup" of the positive cores and negative electrons just floating around randomly. The end result of this is that plasmas can be controlled by magnetic fields. While if not controlled, they will expand, but they also loose energy and eventually revert back to gases. They do not expand indefinately.

Plasma is produced in the earth's atmosphere all the time. For example, tokomak reactors are used for nuclear fusion experiments in labs. These are basically large hollow magnetic donuts. Somehow, they heat their fuel (I don't know what they use) to temperatures that exheed the surface of the sun (only the surface) producing a plasma. Now, techniquely, this is WAY hotter then the melting temperature of the metal donut, but they are able to avoid this tradgedy by using massive magnetic fields to force the produced plasma into a ring that goes down the center of this donut without touching the walls. I have attempted to illustrate this processes using the magic of MS Paint. (I'm at my dad's house right now, otherwise it would be the magic of Linux Paintbrush. ) The black circles represent the magnets, and the red stuff represents plasma. Just pretend I am a good artist. This is a link to a picture of a real tokomak reactor in the Princeton Physics Laboratory: http://www.pppl.gov/projects/pages/tftr_1989_pic.html

If what you said was true (only being able to be controlled by gravity), the those poor scientists would have been screwed as soon as they pushed, "go."

Okay, I'm done... sorry. I find this stuff extremely fasincating. I think there is hardly anything much cooler then subatomic particles and how they interact.

- Greg

 

[Catalyst]

http://www.pppl.gov/projects/pages/tftr_1989_pic.html

Man, I built one of those plasma metal donut things in my backyard last summer.

Except mine had cool racing stripes and 20 inch rims! Yeah, and all the girls liked me and would hang out there... so we had all sorts of wet t-shirt plasma parties and what not. And I had a big blunt tucked behind my ear...

 

[kimosabe]

Damn Catalyst, as far as getting with the Ladies goes, you are in.

 

[Catalyst]

Damn Catalyst, as far as getting with the Ladies goes, you are in.

Your mom's telling you stories again?

Tell her I want my socks back!


j/k