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Well, whoever wrote that to you clearly had no idea what they were talking about because they either didn't read or didn't understand how the Gauss Slingshot works.

((I can say that I didn't write that - I would've posted it here, not sent it to PW.

Still, whoever did is correct is correct about how insanely dangerous that thing would probably be, with the ease with which it can damage and destroy itself (here's something the comment didn't mention - damage to the coils (which is basically inevitable with the way it's intended to be used) could potentially result in a magnetic IED). And the accuracy comment too. As Syv said - you'd probably be better off getting a small(-ish) vector automanipulator and a barrel that's functionally similar a smoothbore cannon barrel.))

((Sean, those both look rather... unergonomic. Especially the plain laser rifle - that battery port does not look like it would make a good grip. [/nitpick]))

Make one, but only just one remote-capable Will uncompensator. Also, make enough tracker/electrification implants (like the ones put in all HMRC prisoners/ARM operatives) to be able to put one in all the captured civilian workers+Xanclone and Grate, while we're making implants.

Anton, how are things on the front of us getting rid of that abomination?

Saint, I'm making some implants, mostly for the captured civilians - when they're done and you're ready, I'd like you and Charles to go, him convincing - just the canned speech he's made should be fine, and you implanting. Nobody works here without an implant, am I clear? And yes, that means the new Grate will get one as well. Also, there's another implant being made, alongside the usual tracker and electric implant, especially for Xan, whom we have a clone of in stasis. It should render him... mostly harmless. I have the keys to the room his chamber is in, and his chamber, so I'll open it when you're ready to put it in. The second key will be left in your possession at this time - both must be used to open it.

Quote from: Arx on July 08, 2014, 03:42:26 am

The force of attraction between two objects is directly proportional to the mass of the objects and indirectly proportional to the square of the distance between the objects.

f = (Gm₁m₂)/d²

or somesuch. I'm not sure if G is supposed to be in there.

I'm wondering more on the how part. :< As in, how does mass even do such a thing?
That's the something something I ended up putting up there.

Take this with a planetful of salt, for I am not a quantum physicist. Nor do I want to be one. The closest I want to touch it is at the level of parts involved that deal directly with atomics.

Mass is energy. Quite literally, for the elementary particles, which can have their mass given in electronvolts(/c²) (1 ev = 1.6e-19 joule). It also makes it fairly easy to simplify such things as antimatter annihilation - a proton (and thus, an antiproton) has a mass of 0.511 MeV/c², so the mutual annihilation of a proton and an antiproton produces 1.022 MeV.

((You're making what amount to one-shot capacitors for it. This has been done before.))

((The man wants to make laser 'bullets'.

I see no reason to stop this from happening other than practicality - just sticking a generator on it would be easier for all involved.

And PW, I think you have failed to impress upon him the size of the thing. Sean - that crater we had to clean up already existed for the most part - the bomb was punted into a ship pit. I would start at full-kiloton yields (keeping in mind that measuring yields of neutron bombs in tons of TNT is kinda... missing the point).))

Can it also be made that the uncompensator I'm designing can be remotely activated/deactived (not triggered, but toggling active state)?

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You're kidding, right? I think that this is probably the only game to have been granted its own subforum.

+1, anyway.

Games aren't the only thing - this computer will also need to be able to handle the work I'm going to have to do for my engineering degree(s) (not sure what all it will entail, but it's probably going to be a bit more than a word processor). And besides - games really don't care about the CPU, in my experience - with an old AMD Athalon dual-core running at 3GHz, the computer I'm using now can run any game I care at maximum, because I have a decent graphics card (which I do intend to transfer to the new computer if I do not upgrade).

And while I'm familiar with AMD's ability to heat a room (I am making sure to invest in a good cooling system anyway), I'm trying to get the most powerful equipment I can while it still being of halfway decent quality and somewhat cheap - the total budget for this computer is >$1500, and to be honest, the FX chips are cheaper than the i5 chips, when the motherboard cost is taken into account - totalling $350 for the end-all-be-all FX I could get (and I can go about $70 cheaper), and $370 for a moderate-power (comparatively) i5.

I present a quick shop job of