Mister Young? Mister Young? Do you copy? This is Houston. Do you read me?
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It's official. B. Young just can't let it go.
Even when squarely shown that some weapons are nothing normal, he really wants to establish some absurd resilience ratios between different objects like if the weapons were basic DET.
Part of Brian Young's
Silly Quest of the Ultimate Nerfing, we get to read about an argument on the weapon Anubis used to destroy Ha'taks and the pyramid on Abydos. I feel sorry for Chris. He's done all he could do to show BY that the weapon was totally odd and hardly DET the way we understand it, but it doesn't count. BY dismisses any evidence he doesn't like as "irrelevant". For him, a Ha'tak is considerably weaker than a stone pyramid. Heck, the shields of a 304 are inferior to that asteroid from "First Strike".
Sure thing Brian. And he dares say that Chris doesn't understand what he's talking about?
I'd add that when Anubis used his weapon against the Ha'taks, the thing fired energy arcs that jumped from one ship to another. Ha'taks weren't immediately destroyed, as we can notice a latency of more than half a second before they begin to blow up.
Oh and the super weapon destroyed a stargate. Actually, it's precisely stated in "Fallen" that the weapon targets the stargates. Chance that most of the energy during the attack against Abydos went into destroying the stargate?
A lot. Yet it didn't prevent the destruction of Abydos from being very odd. Very cool, but completely nuts from a physics standpoint.
Not to say that the writers had already established the multi-gigaton blast as fact since "Redemption" opened the sixth season, and "Full Circle" finished it.
You can look up all the evidence I already presented about the toughness of the stargates, especially when connected (as it was the case with the Abydosian one) to see that Young's claims are not serious.
Another thing. They went through an exchange of the weird CME of "Echoes". Well, I already went through that too many times, notably here against Kane Starkiller.
I just want to add that the star is definitely odd. See, in "Daedalus Variations", that star was supposed to have expanded into a red giant.
The Daedalus was parked in orbit above an alt-Lantea, with the star very close to them. The star was a considerable threat to the ship, heating the interior. The problem is, when a star expands into a red giant like it's supposed to have happened, its boundaries become much less messy, hazy. And such stars are actually much less intense. This would have provided a low end making the 304's toughness very low.
However, the star in the episode wasn't such a fluffy red giant. As we can briefly see, its surface is very sharply outlined, and this is the trademark of the much more powerful red super giants, which brings the intensities into the neighborhood of values such as those seen in "Exodus".
If you want to filter Echoes through scientific standards, then you have to ignore everything that is curious or impossible about the CME and treat it just as a powerful CME, where the 304 is just a mere spot against it, but will create a hole in the gigantic wall of plasma that will be enough, once near to Lantean, to actually have expanded to a diameter big enough to miss the planet.
Think of an umbrella (oh fuck, why do I have that shitty Rihanna song in my head now?? it has even managed to replace the pavlovian imagery of Resident Evil).
Another thing. A single ZPM has proven enough to slow down and protect Atlantis as it was falling at a fast speed through the atmosphere of their new planet. You can see that at the end of the episode "Lifeline". Needless to say that the
drag of a nearly flat 3.6 km wide disc is going to be immense.
When they existed hyperspace, the city was already moving at more than one Atlantis width per second, and kept falling. McKay pointed out that they were going in too hard.
I'll probably cover more of "First Strike", "Adrift" and "Lifeline" later on, because we've seen shields display odd properties, we've seen ZPMs being drained and we have plenty of other details to obtain numbers.
See, this barely controlled entry was even more severe than the one from "Enemy at the Gates", where the city was, once again, coming in at full widths per second, but this time it was presenting its thinner profile. The case of "Lifeline" is the most impressive of all.
Oh and he's also claiming that the nukes that we
saw blow up in "No Man's Land" - remember the big blue flashes and fireballs? - didn't explode but were all destroyed by the Wraith, and the other evidence of that is that the Daedalus couldn't have not withstood the energy from that distant explosion...
I mean, no. That's just
too silly. Has he even bothered calculating the intensity of the radiation over that distance, per chance?
Nope.
At this point all of his positions are purely ego-driven, and it's no surprise that his arguments veer on the side of insanity. He's just not listening anymore.
We lost him.