Mini T-Rex: It's Like a chihuahua, only awesome!

[Senoska]

Posting this because it explains dinos and birds and reptiles and all that jizzy jazz, not meant to start creationist/god/etc debate.

[Max™]

That's why I like Baxter's shit.

Take a mathematician who loves physics and washed out of the space program, give him a fuckton of books on theoretical physics, and let him plot out some timelines.


My favorite thing being the gravity wave handguns, imagine building a particle accelerator using similar principles to the ideas behind cosmic strings, and wrapping the accelerator into something handheld.

Then you cancel the Yukawa effects tying a quark into spacetime, making it roughly massless, and shoomp it around this coiled accelerator til it leaves the end of the barrel... suddenly gaining an immense amount of mass energy, producing a beam of what is more or less lased gravity.

The beam would bend spacetime around itself in an asymmetric fashion, basically making anything it hits fall in the direction it is aimed. Utterly ruins shit made of normal matter, and is so energetic it actually redshifts light around it so the beam appears as a perfectly straight thread of cherry red light.

Now put it in the hands of a Xeelee, and do they use them like guns? No, they wave them around like fucking swords! Starbreakers are one of the scariest implications of relativistic concepts besides black hole cannons, I think.

[Mizango]

Tiktaalik! Shubin strikes again!

[Kryssan]

I used to like dinosaurs till I saw the first Jurassic Park. That movie ruined any chance of me caring about them.

Sounds like someone needs to read Raptor Red. Its not even a really large book.

You cant let something like that fuck with you and throw you off something you claim to like lol. Imagine if Woozie, Max, Khamsin Neo or I got pissy just watching Independence day, BSG or Star Wars or something?

THAT DEFIES THE LAWS OF PHYSICS

I mean you have to take it at face value and keep plugging along, its entertainment and nothing more.

I wouldn't be able to watch any TV show, movie, or video game, if I allowed realism to seep in whenever someone mentions the word nuclear. I just laugh it off ~ it's great to go back and watch movies like Nuclear Twister or Resident Evil or play video games where one has to go behind the glass control room and remove control rods....


It just makes people think I'm crazy, of course.

[wipers]

Its not that I don't get it is a movie. I just find the idea of a movie about dinosaurs to be not entertaining.

[Mizango]

That's why I like Baxter's shit.

Take a mathematician who loves physics and washed out of the space program, give him a fuckton of books on theoretical physics, and let him plot out some timelines.


My favorite thing being the gravity wave handguns, imagine building a particle accelerator using similar principles to the ideas behind cosmic strings, and wrapping the accelerator into something handheld.

Then you cancel the Yukawa effects tying a quark into spacetime, making it roughly massless, and shoomp it around this coiled accelerator til it leaves the end of the barrel... suddenly gaining an immense amount of mass energy, producing a beam of what is more or less lased gravity.

The beam would bend spacetime around itself in an asymmetric fashion, basically making anything it hits fall in the direction it is aimed. Utterly ruins shit made of normal matter, and is so energetic it actually redshifts light around it so the beam appears as a perfectly straight thread of cherry red light.

Now put it in the hands of a Xeelee, and do they use them like guns? No, they wave them around like fucking swords! Starbreakers are one of the scariest implications of relativistic concepts besides black hole cannons, I think.

What a Gamma Ray burst rifle. That would kick too much ass lol. A black hole cannon would be unfair, that's a one time shot. The "be all that ends all" if you will.

[Mizango]

I wouldn't be able to watch any TV show, movie, or video game, if I allowed realism to seep in whenever someone mentions the word nuclear. I just laugh it off ~ it's great to go back and watch movies like Nuclear Twister or Resident Evil or play video games where one has to go behind the glass control room and remove control rods....


It just makes people think I'm crazy, of course.

RADIOACTIVE SPIDERS R SRS.

[Max™]

Reading the DNA accurately enough to determine how exactly the features we observe in the modern form arise from the information contained in the DNA.

Determining which features the DNA COULD produce if it had not been read by the developing creature in the manner in which it was, and altering the way in which it is read.

Literally like changing the recipe in a cookbook from 2 oz of brown sugar to 1.5 oz of brown sugar and a pinch of cinnamon, except the recipe contains like... hundreds of thousands of instructions for simple life forms, and the order is just as important as the specific commands are.

[Kryssan]

RADIOACTIVE SPIDERS R SRS.

Ever seen what happens to a spider in a plasma field?



The same thing that happens to everything else.



It is funny to watch 'em hop around trying to avoid the discharge arcs. And they survive longer than cockroaches too. 8 seconds. Some of you might be familiar with that number for other reasons, neh?


What was that? Why would I know what happens to a spider in a plasma field? Well, you see, when nukes get bored...






WE BLOW SHIT UP. It's a fundamental flaw we have, I think.

[Mizango]

lol

[Max™]

What a Gamma Ray burst rifle. That would kick too much ass lol. A black hole cannon would be unfair, that's a one time shot. The "be all that ends all" if you will.

Nah man, way beyond that, I can't think of a better gun using physics than this one.

Literally the beam is bending spacetime into a sort of uh funnel shape, oriented so the funnel "drains" in the direction of the beam.

Sort of like turning a black hole inside out around a single axis, and aiming it at something.


If you think about the implications of that, it literally makes things heavier in the path of the beam... if you make the core of a star heavier... what happens?

[isladar]

Judging by most of the people who post in cross-server, we've been retro-engineering proto-humans for years.

[Max™]

Could you retro-engineer a human?

If you had a toolbox of DNA bases and knew exactly how to order them, how to tell them to read at the right times and shut off at the right times, and gave them raw material, you would grow a human from scratch, yes.

[Kryssan]

What a Gamma Ray burst rifle. That would kick too much ass lol. A black hole cannon would be unfair, that's a one time shot. The "be all that ends all" if you will.

To be honest, we already have grasers (gamma ray amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). They're just not small enough for humans to carry. Yet. And as it turns out, all types of energy weapons work better in a vacuum, unfortunately.



As for the black hole cannons, Weber had SLAMs in Path of the Fury/In Fury Born. Basically worked on the concept of the FTL technology that was implemented in the book, that regarded the use of having a microsingularity projected in front of the spaceship in such a manner so that the ship is perpetually 'falling' into it. The missiles were basically just the drive component of that.

[Max™]

lol, just a matter of time for someone to toss in a racist joke, so I'll beat them to it:

Spoiler: show

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Yeah, I went there, and I hate Lil' Wayne, for the record. He's the goofiest looking motherfucker I've seen on TV in... ever, and I lost all faith in the rap community when I learned he wasn't just a walking joke, but actually taken seriously.

[Kerberoz]

It's not like you can just hit "rewind" on DNA and bring it back to a certain revision. There's a lot of inactive "junk" DNA, though, that could theoretically be used to create an approximation of an ancestor by trying to mimic the observed phenotypes. The chicken experiments so far are extremely fucking cool.

[Zanz L. Barre The 3rd]

Imagine if Blue Whales were deft predators with 3 foot incisors.

A man can wish, can't he?

lol @ a "Deft" blue whale

[Max™]

Yeah, we need way more advanced computing, and a better understanding in general.

Right now we're literally pulling out Jenga blocks and seeing what it collapses into.


As for gamma ray guns, I still don't think I've gotten across the point of a gravity wave laser, the implications of an aysmmetrically curved projection of spacetime are immediately obvious to me, but I've been dealing with this shit for 20 some-odd years.

If you got your hand next to the beam, but didn't touch it, you'd feel gravitational drag in the direction the beam was aimed, that way would be "down" for the neighborhood of the beam.

Probably be fascinating to look down the barrel towards an active beam, all sorts of trippy ass distortion in the path.

[Kerberoz]

If you could build a handheld gravity-distortion beam device powerful enough to hold light in place, why even bother with a laser at all? It would be able to cut people in half just by tearing their molecules apart, no laser needed!

[Max™]

Exactly, I only use the term gravity wave laser because it is the same basic concept as a laser (locking what is normally a broad range of possible wavestates into a single wavestate), except WITH GRAVITY.

lol

Seriously, the scariest goddamn gun that a physicist can think of is scary, this thing makes black hole guns look tame, at least the black hole projector is going to be unwieldy.

A starbreaker beam would induce acceleration, while being effectively massless itself, so you could change directions, wave it around, cut shit in half... and it would be long, planetary scales here.

And again, it's an implication of relativity, not a realistic one because I have no fucking clue how you'd uh... get the beam started, but assuming your technology was advanced to that point, the actual effects are simple enough to model.


Btw, that hypothetical about a star, if you make the core of a star heavier, it collapses, if it collapses beyond a certain point, it expands furiously... small stars go nova, large stars are worse.


Fun derail, lol.