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Post by DedmanWalkin on Apr 2, 2011 15:58:18 GMT -5
That reeks of Umbrella, Resident Evil was right!
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Apr 2, 2011 16:02:05 GMT -5
LOL PN.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 2, 2011 19:05:32 GMT -5
"Enhanced resistance to death?" Is it just me or does that line sound hilarious? It makes death sound like a disease to which one can get more or less immune. "Thanks to the government's new products, I can get killed in a car crash with hardly any side effects at all! Thank you, Death-B-Gone!" You ever read The Fountain or seen the movie? The good doctor approached death as if it were a disease in it.
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Post by Crom-Cruach on Apr 2, 2011 20:11:33 GMT -5
You ever read The Fountain or seen the movie? The good doctor approached death as if it were a disease in it. the book was great, the movie not so much.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 2, 2011 20:27:56 GMT -5
I loved the movie personally. It ranks as one of my all-time favorites.
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Post by Crom-Cruach on Apr 2, 2011 20:29:31 GMT -5
after reading the book, the movie just didn't cut it.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 2, 2011 20:31:19 GMT -5
What makes you say that?
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Post by Crom-Cruach on Apr 2, 2011 20:34:50 GMT -5
Well so much I felt was lost in translation. Don't get me wrong the movie wasn't bad by any stretch. It's just that somethings just get lost because what works for one medium doesn't work for another.
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Post by Power NeXus on Apr 2, 2011 23:21:47 GMT -5
I'll have to look it up. Honestly, I've never heard of either the movie or the book :/
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 2, 2011 23:40:23 GMT -5
I'll have to look it up. Honestly, I've never heard of either the movie or the book :/ The marketing for the movie was terrible. Which I find really surprising since Hugh Jackman was really riding the Wolverine fandom wave at the time.
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Post by yaujtapool on Apr 5, 2011 14:33:11 GMT -5
The Railgun " The Railgun is an entirely electrical gun that accelerates a conductive projectile along a pair of metal rails using the same principles as the homopolar. The U.S. military has tested a version of the weapon that accelerates projectiles up at speeds up to 2.4 kilometers per second – which just happens to be seven times the speed of sound. Physics tells us the faster something is moving, the more destruction it causes. And Railguns have the capability of shooting things pretty, pretty fast. You do the math."
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Post by yaujtapool on Apr 5, 2011 14:37:44 GMT -5
That railgun is so powerful it leaves a plasma stream in its wake.
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Apr 5, 2011 14:44:34 GMT -5
God I love that thing. It has impact energy of 64 megajoules. That's something like 9-10 kilograms of TNT. For a solid slug, that's pretty damn amazing.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 5, 2011 15:04:05 GMT -5
I wonder why it looks like a brick. Would it not become faster by making it aerodynamic?
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Apr 5, 2011 15:14:13 GMT -5
My guess is it's still just a test phase. The shape of the projectile has no impact to the effectiveness of the weapon itself.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 5, 2011 15:54:00 GMT -5
My guess is it's still just a test phase. The shape of the projectile has no impact to the effectiveness of the weapon itself. I imagine the effectiveness remains the same but I would also think that it could be faster with a projectile that causes less friction.
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Post by Phantom Stargrave on Apr 5, 2011 16:24:11 GMT -5
My guess is it's still just a test phase. The shape of the projectile has no impact to the effectiveness of the weapon itself. I imagine the effectiveness remains the same but I would also think that it could be faster with a projectile that causes less friction. But the projectile isn't being tested. The launcher is. The projectile is simply not an issue. Or hell, maybe I'm wrong. It may as well have something to do with the design of the rail gun. Perhaps they have to make it look like a brick on account of conductivity or sturdiness.
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Post by Erik-El on Apr 5, 2011 16:31:48 GMT -5
Hmmm... All good points.
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Post by Crom-Cruach on Apr 5, 2011 16:59:32 GMT -5
I think it's because of physics of energy dispersal.
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Post by yaujtapool on Apr 8, 2011 17:01:44 GMT -5
Interesting weapon
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