l33telboi wrote:I have to admit that it is a bit funny that SDN has had such a sudden influx of threads related to RSA and this site. 4 threads in just a week or so, with three of them being started by Wong himself. To top it off there's a thread that's started gathering rebuttals to arguments as well.
Why this sudden influx of anti-trek threads?
He needs his fix, maybe? I don't know.
We've got Poe raising the gift of an argument, like that monkey in the Lion King raised Simba into the air when he was just a cub, waiting patiently for Wong to gently takes it into his hands, ready to bring the smackdown, but still failing miserably.
As far as the ultra dense thinggoes, there's this one thing. Wong says 'well, they won't be runing at maximum power all the time'. Well, for those that don't know, even at maximum power, that is the sustained power an engine is designed to take over a long period of time, that's why it is maximum. Going beyond that causes sever damage to the engine. You can't just have a maximum power of just one second. If the idea is that you can have it only last for a short itme, that really isn't maximum power. That's pushing the limits of stress the engine is designed to take, which is vastly different. 'Not running at maximum all the time' my ass.
As for scaling down, I'm sure you've got some confirmation on the level of particle concentraions between what's emitted through the barrel of a TL, like the heavy ones on your standard SD and what passes through each tributary channel inside the DS, as well as the final beam, especailly since we can partialy see through to the other side of the channel just before the SL fires. TL must be similar to that. I'm sure if we took a very close look, we could see through to the other side with a "cutaway view" type of thing, like they do on howstuffworks.com and a plasma torch. I await your response and if you can't get that there's sarcasm here, I'll just shake my head sadly.
I've got Vympel calling me a douchebag, but where is it written that I have to always write a damned physics paper in every sodding post? He's read plenty of my posts over the last couple of years he's tried debating with me. If I created a website and put a series of things on pages and I just said 'read this' and pointed to the pages or gave a brief synopsis, I'd be accused on not being able to debate the issue, that all I could do was just point to a segment of text and couldn't really understand what I had written. I don't have to write every tiny little detail in every post.
Vympel, I am snide and scoff at reckless unthinking.
Now, back to Wong. Wong, I'm really starting to think you can't even understand sarcasm anymore. For god's sake. Read what the conversation was about or do we have to write down little primers at the top of each post for you to get it? Honestly.
No, you aren't the cause of Darkstar's writtings, that's the point. It was sarcasm that commented on how you act. You claim an appeal to incredulity and ignore that for an engine's actual maximum power that necessitates that much fuel, using "ultra dense" fuel tanks is gonna cause fusion of the material into a solid object because of the volume of the ship itself and the space that would be taken up for all the other stuff, especially since we have a very nice shot of much of the inside being taken up by that take off/landing strip and the hanger bays. This would make the idea that the tanks are several orders of magnitude heavier a vast understatement. To be fair, Vympel did say this, but come on. We know you're holding the ep 3 ICS as a bible like object to your heart, so I'm sure you believe the concpet Vympel said. I'm also betting that there's a strong chance that you've said this at least once before, but I just don't care to try to remember when and where.
Oooooooooooooh, it' the duel of scientists!!!!!! We'll compare and you'll bitch how the list we present isn't up to snuff as you and Saxton. Boo bloody hoo. That wasn't the point. I said Saxton was in such high regard amongst your lot because of the sycophancy many of your followers show, like Darth Servo.
"Because they delude themselves into thinking
the experts like Saxton and yourself are all frauds...just like the creationists do.
Experts?! Experts, you say?!
GOD, I found that bit to be hilarious. If your job and your degree makes you an expert, I got you beat. I'm an expert, TOOOOOO!!
Poe, all this "hoopla" is just us wondering how you guys might react, if things are done differently with the book.
I did like this bit, too:
"Are these people allergic to math? Are they just fucking idiots?
Do they honestly think that if they don't use that kind of firepower all the time or in every type of weapon they make, they must not be capable of it?"
I find this statement ironic, given the number of times things, like warp strafing is said to not be possible just because we don't hear about it or see it as much as in TOS. Or the idea of considering grenades or body armor or bullets.
Yes, kids, we have Uncle Wong saying that if they have shown the ability to do something in the past technoligically, there's a good chance they can still do it in the present or even in the future.
So, warp strafing? Check
Bullets considered against the Borg when we know they know of bullets? Check.
I'm sure there are others, I just can't think of any right now. Next, you will hear the sound of Wong being flabbergasted with a tiny bit of babbling before coming up with something else to say.
