Wisp

How did you make your fusion efficient? Having the ability to create fusion does not make it viable. The most efficient we've ever gotten a fusion reaction to be was producing 60% of the energy needed to maintain it. Any strange matter weapons wouldn't even be able to get close to the sun, much less any large mass. In this game 20 years is a short period of time.

Ok, no offense Archi, but how the [bleep] did in like 20 years of being in the game did you manage to get a weapon that can destroy an entire system, develop an unfairly powerful energy source, somehow get strange matter, and so on? The basic rules for new players is that they start with a certain number of people, and budget, with average technology levels. You've managed to somehow develop the most unrealistic and overpowered technology with a small amount of people and resources in a tiny amount of time. I don't even understand how you think you could turn a star into strange matter.

I didn't really have a problem with that mission in Prototype. I just hate it when the thing you're escorting goes at the speed of a injured snail, or gets stuck.

Hell, in l4d2 I feel like half the time it's an escort mission with the Ally's AI.

Remember, only about 3.4m Brazilian Soldiers have died. 400,000 in defense of South Africa, then 17m civilians in a technically unprovoked attack. Then 3 million in Siberia/Alaska apparently. So in total, 20.4m casualties, versus the hundreds of millions for most other major players. I'm speaking only of Brazil, not of the parts of the former Terran Federation that I control. So I have another ~600m people that could defend their homeland, if it came down to it. Though I could only really draft 100m of those. Oh, and I think I said I sent the fleet towards Earth. If not, they are leaving now. I'll look at my PMs to check. Actually not quite. I sent some troops in to keep the people free, and their own sovereign nation, then you ordered your troops to slaughter any Brazilians.

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I assume this is the right forum. I remember we had a huge Misfile thread a few years back, but that's long dead. Anyway, I was just wondering what webcomics people read (if any). Please don't post any excessively inappropriate ones, obviously. Personally, I read Questionable Content, Misfile, and then I usually read xkcd and c&h every week or so.

Plus pulling 100m out of your 500m (?) population means that a good 1/3rd of normal jobs will vanish.

Basically, don't be a [bleep]. Your relationship with A wouldn't last too long, I'm guessing. Stick with B, try to sort out your problems and if it doesn't work out, A might still be there.

Also doing a 4-5 miles run in 20-25 minutes? I'd say 95-99% of people can get a 5 minute mile, much less 5 in a row. Running that fast isn't even that great compared to keeping a saner pace over longer distances.

Ship factories, as of last year are now producing war ships over the Americas. Project ANDY's budget is being kicked up tremendously, it can now produce 5x as fast (Yea, a surge in funding, but not for research, for production). Archi, your interplanetary thing breaks Heisenburg's uncertainty principle. We're getting a constant stream of recruits now, and millions that joined over the past decade are prepared for combat. Project PW is beginning. Also. Invading the Americas will lead to the deaths of all your soldiers. For no other reason than you're 1: Invading through the arctic. Not a good idea. 2: No supplies 3: No maps 4: No gps 5: No roads 6: Everything above ground is completely unmaintained (other than some production facilities).

That last bit is true enough, but it doesn't have to be. Men are not "supposed" to be the leaders. Men should feel free not to be the leaders, and women should feel free to be the leaders. There's no such thing as a "stronger" gender. Gender is, for the most part, socially constructed and the only reason people still conform to it is that most people are most comfortable with what is seen as the path of least resistance. Basically, who cares who's the stronger gender, whether it be men or women? Gender definitely is not a socially constructed concept. That thing between my legs did not come around because of some social breakthrough. Men are supposed to be the leaders, for thousands of years it's been that way and changing human nature and thousands of years of history is difficult. And men are the stronger gender physically, which is how they became sort of the stronger gender overall. And yes blindbaker, I am the one you fond on omegle :P But then there's also the fact that having a [bleep] doesn't mean anything. Leaders aren't determined by brawls nowadays, strength is often irrelevant.

Ya really, kids these days. I had a generic $5 pair that I picked up years ago, around the early to mid 90's I believe, and i didn't need to replace them til 2 years ago when my room mate stepped on them. Yeah, if you spend 1,500$ on ear phones that keep breaking you have a problem. I just buy 10$ crappy ones, they last for usually a year or so unless I lose them. Then if I have my bag with me I have a nice pair of Bose over-ear headphones.

That's actually a cool idea, keeping them in warp.

But there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

That'd be one hell of a flow chart. Especially since every girl is annoyingly different. Don't even get me started on guys. DONT EVEN GET HER STARTED ON GUYS, YOU GUYS. YOU DONT EVEN WANNA KNOW GUYS. I wasn't really being serious by the way, it's just kinda annoying when people act like girls are so confusing, but then think they/boys aren't.

That'd be one hell of a flow chart. Especially since every girl is annoyingly different. Don't even get me started on guys.

I'm one star away from unlocking those. Well I was. I was at a friends house, I don't actually have the game. Are there any stealth missions on Echo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddle_Thinking Stumbleupon gave me that, and it made me think of this debate.

My Dad once found a dummy grenade. Of course I didn't know it was a dummy (he did because he was in the army when he was younger) so you can imagine my panic when he pulled the pin and rolled it at me. He thought it was hilarious, I wasn't best pleased at the time though lol. Major props if you picked it up, and threw it out a window in under 5 seconds.

I didn't want to say blissfully but i couldn't find anything quite as good :mellow: Anyways, what's making you so worried at night? Being alone with your thoughts can do that, that's what keeps me from sleeping. Especially if you have very negative thoughts. Not really negative thoughts. Well, negative for the generally optimist me, I guess, but really they're just ... deep, serious thoughts. When stuff gets serious, I usually get out of there. I'm great at serious acting, though, for some reason. A couple scenes in our play are serious and I've had them nailed since day 1. But, yeah, they're smart and they're serious. I don't like the smart me. Worrying about the future isn't something I like to do. Well, once again you've proven yourself to be pretty damn similar to me.

Damn, some spec ops are hard. Playing Hidden with friends is so much fun on Veteran. In fact, stealth in general is, but I don't really like the snowy missions where you can't see [cabbage].

I think you did your math wrong to start with. If matter converts at 9*10^16 joules per kilogram, then 50 kg would be: 50*90,000,000,000,000,000 Which would equal 450,000,000,000,000,000 Joules per minute. To find the watts that that puts out, divide by 60: 450,000,000,000,000,000/60= 75,000,000,000,000,000 watts. For an easier number, divide that by a trillion: 76,000,000,000,000,000/1,000,000,000,000= 75,000 Terrawatts. The human race puts out 15 terrawatts. In sci notation: 9*10^16*50=4.5×10^18 4.5×10^18/60=7.5 × 10^16 7.5 × 10^16/1*10^12=75,000 So even if you had 1/4 efficiency, like you said they would still be getting 18750 Terrawatts, over 1000 times what everything on Earth puts out. Actually, I messed up. That was already factoring in your 1/4th efficiency, without that you would be getting 300,000 TW. So the way you have that thing set up it would put out 75,000 tw. That's ridiculous. However, if your lasers could somehow be 1.5kw each, even though single powerful laser can be measured in gigawatts, or occasionally terrawatts and were each on for a second, you would only need 4.5 TJ of power per shot. But that's still impossible, due to the fact that your lasers wouldn't be anything more than pointers. Unless I royally screwed up my math.

Either way, your reactors aren't going to recover 100% of the energy released. It's fission, which in general leads to less recoverable energy than fusion. Regardless of how you did it, it still produces an incredibly overpowered amount of energy considering you've been in the game only a few years.

How did you manage to get fusion that efficient in such little time? I spent 100 years getting fusion to return any benefits. A civilian laser, no matter what you put it through wouldn't do anything to a missile, much less a ship. Your station, with almost 0 research time could create more energy in 1 hour than the human race on Earth does in a year.