science law violations - for fun only!!

[dorkvader]

 

Here are the ones I found:

 

 

 

- According to the newsletter, each cannonball can only be used once because they "vaporize" on impact. Think about it - if cannonballs really vaporized, the kinetic energy released would be probably sufficient enough to level an entire building! Also, you can see that cannonballs travel at only a few meters per second, not exactly fast enough to cause vaporization on impact. But then again, real cannonballs would be pretty unbalanced.

 

well, if they "happen" to have a huuuuge mass (of like that of a large asteroid) then parts (if not the whole) would get vaporized on impact. also, if the cannon imparts a great enough spin onit, the friction of stopping it could do that too.

 

 

- Gold and silver ore are refined in furnaces, not exactly what we do in real-life.

 

 

 

guess waht a blast furnace does

 

 

- Obsidian is one of the strongest materials in the game. However, in real-life, it's rather weak. It is only ranked 5 on the Mohs mineral hardness scale. Any sharp blow will shatter obsidian.

 

 

 

obsidian(lava glass) may be brittle, but seeing as the mohs scale look slike a logrithmic graph, then topaz (9) would be only abou 1/3 that of a topaz or corundum.

 

 

 

also, i have read that it is possible to sharpen an obsidian blade to that of an atom's thickness.

 

 

 

Obsidian is currently used in cardiac surgery, as well-crafted obsidian blades have a cutting edge much sharper than high-quality steel surgical scalpels and may even be up to five times sharper, the edge of the blade reaching veritable molecular thinness. It produces a cleaner cut and less tissue trauma, which translates to faster healing and less scar tissue.

source, wikipedia.

 

 

 

also, in mesoamerica, obsidian was capable of inflicting terrible wounds due to it's relative sharpness and it's serrated quality.

 

thus, it is no wonder why obsidian weapons rank among the best in the game.

 

 

 

back on topic, i once buried some bones upstairs in the monastary, next to the alter, which has nothing under it, but a floor. did i slide the bones under a rug? how does one buy bones upstars on in the stone floor of a bank?

 

 

 

why does the gaurd i just killed re-appear out of nowhere after i kill him? (law of conservation of matter) unless he was transformed from the air, in which case, the required enzymes and bactera to convert the oxygen to the necessary carbon, and others would take much longer

 

 

 

and when i kill it, it leaves, 2 bones, not 300+ where have all the ossicles(sp) gone?(law of conservationof matter again)

 

 

 

need i say more?

 

you can teleport (already been said i bet, the whole magic thing, i know technically it's possible (read the physics of star trek) but not the way i do it in runescape)

 

 

 

edit: mr. "Hikensasameyuki", you did not only a very thorough job of putting to rest some of these rather petty debates, but you did so by using language that includes words with more than two syllables, a feat almost unheard of on many forums, such as this. i do believe, however, that the meaning of nomenclature has escaped many of our dear readers, who have never had the delight of knowing or remembering anything about carlos linnaeus or his classification system of binomial nomenclature. (this is mearly the most common pplace the word "nomenclature" is used in american schools) allow me, if you will, to enlighten most of us.

 

 

 

nomenclature means (VERY simply put) a name, so binomial nomenclature is a system of NAMEing organisms with two names. (once again, very simply put)

[Silverchipmunk]

You can carry 2.4 billion cannon balls, but not 29 pies. :-k Some items are magically 'stackable'.

[Slurpy17]

1. There is no problem that cannot be overcome by force.

 

2. If it moves, Destroy it.

 

3. Piloting any vehicle is simple and requires no training (Gnome Glider ).

 

4. One lone 'good guy' can defeat an infinate number of 'bad guys'.

 

5. Make sure you eat all food lieing on the ground.

 

6. You can kill things and get away with it.

 

7. If someone dies, they disappear.

 

8. If you get mad enough you can fight even better (DragonBattleSpecial).

 

9. You can operate all weapons without training.

 

10. No matter how long you fight, you can always fight again.

 

11. Death is reversable. Only for you.

 

12. Chickens are common and frequently fight in public.

 

13. Attack everything if it dies, it was bad.

 

14. A thousand-to-one odds against you is no problem.

 

 

 

Most importantly

 

 

 

All women wear revealing clothes and have great bodies.

 

1.ok whatever didn't quite understand

 

2.well what would you do if there would be loads of bad guys around?

 

3.well are you sure noone tells you how to do it, maybe its in the genes?

 

4.bad guys dont have food :P

 

5.of course, or are you afraid of a couple small bacterias?you better not brush your teeth in that case :P

 

6.yea its not like in these days, they have different laws :!:

 

7.well you eat the flesh, bones are left!

 

8.well, no you just "use your strength better" as i like to call it :D

 

9.no you cant, you train attack right?

 

10.yes, just in real life, but you rest instead of eat food, or in rs you can also rest to get more hp

 

11.nope all other players too :P

 

12.so? how you know how it was at that time whenever runescape "was" i know they dont really have any real but its in past as far as we know :)

 

13.nahh, guards are bad? chickens are bad? cows are bad? not as far as i know

 

14.like in what?

 

 

 

OOOH

 

15. i cant see too many muscles, but men have muscles, its a little bit more other way around, and for revealing clothes, maybe they want to use them :thumbsup:

[bedman]

I think the creator of this topic is pretty aware that Runescape is "just a game".

 

He just wanted to make a fun topic where you could think a bit about all those things in Runescape that cant in real life.

 

 

 

However, there are already quite a few topics about that (though, not with an emphasis on science, but still), and they mostly get ruined by people saying "its just a game".

 

So the outcome of this thread was quite predictable, even though its sad that most of the people here refuse to contribute to the topic by stating the obvious over and over again...

 

EVERYONE KNOWS ITS JUST A GAME, AND THAT THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS THAT CANT HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE,

 

 

 

but why not have some fun by finding these things?? (some are quite funny :D)

[Hikensasameyuki]

I hardly think I ruined the topic with my replies, though I find this to be as much a philosophical and psychological discussion of perceived anomalies within the game as it is one deeply rooted in physical science. Either way, I welcome more of this type of insight. If you were to read only the emboldened 'Bottom Line' parts of my previous post, you can get a pretty good idea of at least a few ways in which unrealistic concepts from a game scenario can at least be explained by partial analog to other concepts with which we are familiar from our experience of the actual world. Not all game ideas are completely fantastical in an arbitrary way, and to be honest, Runescape does no worse a job of injecting pseudo- and quasi-scientific content into it's physics system than any other mainstream multiplayer title. So, while it remains undeniably a fantasy game, simple extrapolations are all it takes to draw relations between the physics of Runescape and that of the real world.

 

 

 

Remember, the people who bring you Runescape have no access other than to their real world experience and their imaginations; no more than the game's users. So, while plenty of things that happen in the game don't/can't happen in real life, they arguably still have their roots in a well-founded grasp of reality. Imagination is what makes the difference between how things behave in the game and how things that resemble them behave in the world of sense experience which otherwise surrounds us.

[Slingshot377]

Its only a game.....

 

+1

[Giordano]

Its only a game.....

 

+1

 

Its just for FUN. :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On-topic: Santa exists. :-#

[Waterofgod]

 

Sorry but I think they are all rpetty weak

 

 

 

-That is perfect logical, cannon balls are an iron sphere the heat caused inside the steam pwoered cannon would soften them somewhat then the friction cuase by the speed would allow the iron to react with the water. Such a combination would release some oxygen from the water and the rest would form into iron hydroxide - a gas aka it would vapourise

 

 

Even though i agrea with most of your arguments, this one is just...off.

 

For an iron ball to react with oxogin relised by evaporating water, the iron would have to become obsianly hot. so hot that it brakes down to a moleculer level, IE, vaporise. The heat that it would take to do this would be imposibly high, far beyond the heat of a furnis, let alown an expotion inside a cannon. Even if you did factor in the friction between air and the cannonball, it would not be enuff. Air simply does not provide enuff friction to factor into the equation unless you need EXACT messurments, as we donot. Iorn would haveto be come a gas befor it would have any form of a reaction with oxygen, other than ruse. As for why it must be so hot, to say that iron could react with oxygen reseasd by evaporating water denies physics its self, the very topic of this discusion. Unless iron was a gas, by the time it had tuched the water, it would have cooled down to a relitivly solid state, at which point, oxygen can do no more than make iron rust.

 

 

 

I realy do belive that you made most of what you said up, just for the sake of argument.

 

 

 

(simple gravity, iron WEIGHS more than air; that's right, WEIGHS; it doesn't just 'have more mass')

 

 

 

Silly silly man!!!

 

 

 

If you are not simply makeing this all up, you should know there is no such thing as true weight. There is only mass, and the amount of downward force implyed by gravity upon it. to say that iron weighs more than air with out haveing more mass is ubsured. though i think i may begin to see what you meen. but you said it in a very confusing, illogicle, selfcontradictory, and yes even stupid, way. "It doesn't just 'have more mass'", yes, it does just have more mass. For something to Weigh more than something else, of the exact same size, and shape, it must be more dense, IE have more mass.

 

I do belive that people make stuff up on here simply because most people cant correct them and it makes them look smart.

 

Here you stand, useing all this big vocabulary, and yet you deniy one of the simplest priceiples of physics that even a 6th grader can understand.

 

If you want to appear smart, go out and learn something before you star trying to impres people. You people make me so furyus when you come to places like this, where you can hide behind a wall of invisibility, while makeing people think you are these briliant minds of the world who for some unresonable reason wast their time playing a simple online game, while they could be makeing huge changes in the world with the mind they present themselfes to have.

 

 

 

edit: In suport of my primis, i will tell you that gravity pulls down on all things at an equil rate: 9.8 meters per second persecond, This means that one second after you drop any item, it will fall at a rate of 9.8 meters per second, a second after that it will be traveling 20.6 meters per second and so on and so on untill it reaches its maximum velocity, you must ofcorce make alouences for friction.

 

For more information on gravity, visit this site

 

 

 

By the way, In case anyone has the idea of saying i did the same thing, let me tell you this. I am in the 11th grade, and i have just destroyed this, man's, teen's or kid's argument. Most of what he said is true, but in this one mistake he has shown himself to be the froud that he is. If i am wrong, dont just say so, prove it. Im out.[/url]

[tooms5587]

Am I the only one that feels incredibly stupid about now :D

[Iv_Green_vI]

really?, i never knew obsidian was real

[kubert7]

pineapples in runescape grow on trees in real life they dont

 

 

 

They dont grow on trees in runescape.. =;

[Hegel]

Platebodies weigh more than 5 bars (at least for steel, might be the same for all materials)

[Freesia]

The fishes that you harpooned up looks perfect but instead should have a hole that your harpoon made through their bodies.

[Ranger_Rapster]

carrying 100k iron arrows is possible y not 100k lobsters :-k

[heart_of_ink]

-Your enemies stay still while you take turns hitting each other

 

-If you fire an arrow at something and that something moves, the arrow follows them

 

-The easter bunny exists

 

-Gnomes exist

 

-Elves exist

 

-Most books are only a few pageslong

 

-The majority of the human population spends their time wandering around doing quests and training, yet the economy doesn't drop into a deep depression.

 

-If you're frustrated with the way life in runescape is working out, you can take a break.

 

-Millions of lobsters and sharks are on the market, yet neither of them are an endangered species.

 

- A network of magic carpets runs trips around the desert.

[Bubsa]

-If you fire an arrow at something and that something moves, the arrow follows them

 

Hehe, that's a good one. Homing missile arrows :P

[chase_cool7]

-npc's have armor but dont use it.

 

-lesser deamons and many others carry gp on them.

 

-you can tare off the claws tail and dip the lobster in butter in 1 second.

 

-food heals you when getting stabbed in the face.

 

-somehow 3 items dissapear and go back to the owner if he/she dosent have a skull and dies.

 

-how do the animals in the stronghold of security get runes?

[beanonator]

R

 

- Jagex uses kg as a measure of weight. However, kg is a measure of mass, not weight!

 

 

 

- During the Between a Rock... quest, the player must make a helmet out of gold bars. After doing that, the inventory becomes heavier! This violates the conservation of mass/matter!

 

 

 

- According to the newsletter, each cannonball can only be used once because they "vaporize" on impact. Think about it - if cannonballs really vaporized, the kinetic energy released would be probably sufficient enough to level an entire building! Also, you can see that cannonballs travel at only a few meters per second, not exactly fast enough to cause vaporization on impact. But then again, real cannonballs would be pretty unbalanced.

 

 

 

- Gold and silver ore are refined in furnaces, not exactly what we do in real-life.

 

 

 

- Obsidian is one of the strongest materials in the game. However, in real-life, it's rather weak. It is only ranked 5 on the Mohs mineral hardness scale. Any sharp blow will shatter obsidian.

 

 

 

Sorry but I think they are all rpetty weak

 

 

 

-Jagex use it correctly, there is much mis conception as to what weight is. People weigh themselves and weigh ingredients as weights. Techincally yes they are all masses and not weights, but people call them weight and measure them in kg - not everyone is good at science

 

 

 

-In the making of such a large gold object impurtieis would be absorbed into the metal, plus you add a white gold inlay to the helm that is not a bar in your inventory both of whihc supply the extra weight

 

 

 

-That is perfect logical, cannon balls are an iron sphere the heat caused inside the steam pwoered cannon would soften them somewhat then the friction cuase by the speed would allow the iron to react with the water. Such a combination would release some oxygen from the water and the rest would form into iron hydroxide - a gas aka it would vapourise

 

 

 

-In real life gold and silver ore are filtered by machinery to remove more earth and impurties than some ores have but are then heated in a furnace to remove the rest hence jagexs is a perfectly logical process

 

 

 

-Obsidian in its natural state is a weak metal yes, when interlaced with a substances like coal or occasionally granite it offers the strength and properties of the metal while gaining in durabilty and strength (thats why steel is stronger than iron) so it is correct

 

 

 

99% of jagexs game checks out against science fact if you dev

 

ele deeper than basic fact...

 

whats your Iq ?

[yurpsie]

Diamonds are the hardest material on earth with a scale of 10. Diamonds can only be cut by another DIAMOND!

 

 

 

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We go around cutting diamonds using chisels made out of something that looks like iron and wood.

 

 

 

And if I am not mistaken, bronze is made out of more copper[Cu] than tin[sn]. It is either 90% and 10% or 70% and 30%, I forgot. :lol:

[Gothic_Hell]

You guys are compleately off the wall.... :-s

 

 

 

Like many said its a game. Get Real.

[WaeLDreegia]

Granite Mauls would break on pickup. Look at that HUGE hunk of granite at the end of a thin stick made of wood - I THINK the stick would break? Am I right?

[Kiriyama]

Okay sice all of you are sayin stuff about weight I'll add sumthin

 

 

 

I'll remember all I can from Tech Studies.

 

 

 

Weight= Mass X Gravity

 

 

 

W= m X 9.81m/s

 

 

 

Standard grade Energy and Power.

[fgfuyfyuiuy0]

What about the gnome airplanes, no engine, no propeller, how d o we take off and how does it hold 100kg when it's paper?

[redfire50000]

You can somehow hold 28 sharks, and still run :D

 

 

 

You can somehow get that little feather top when making a full helmet.

 

 

 

You can dig somewhere in a clue and get a rune platebody, bu if someone else digs...

 

 

 

Karil armor somehow gets damaged when your attacking a monster long ranged.

[fire_skulll300]

if you make a hatchet from scratch where does the wood come from