Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Out of respect for that one redeeming characteristic, I have been able ot keep from crossing the one line that would piss you off so damn much.

…Feces? =/

Your girlfriend, but I haven’t crossed that line either.

You can see why I would never cross that line while I am still in possession of my right mind.


It’s just not funny, it’s cruel, mean-spirited, and depressing.

So I am staying as far from that line as possible.

Smart move.
*Enraged Ass Appears!*
Go, *Ninja!
Enraged Ass uses Sexual Assault!
It’s super-effective!
*Ninja fainted…

*Ninja is not a pokemon

*Ninja cannot faint because of special ability Ninja Endurance

*Ninja Smites Nero with a “That just ain’t funny and is entirely overused, especially on this forum”

It’s super-dumb!

Nero Facepalms!

Win. Also you can call me beninja. Not my idea but what do you think?

i have another new project. im going to make a M.A.R.V except with a squirrel. thats the plan anyway.

im gonna give it a syringe of morphine

@HB: So you’re a Benjamin are you?

@KZ: Why is this any more feasible than your last project?

they are all working so far. i just broke my generator and have to make a new one so its taking a while.

Yes I am. Benjamin Bowman.
bowman being my middle name. I also happen to be related to Davy crocket and the 24th
President of the united states. Lol.

sweet.

You have my condolences.

i come from a fishing family on one side, and intellectuals on the other. i find however, that the fisherman are just as intelligent as the nuclear physicists in my family.
EDIT- …….i kinda hate most of them….not my immediate though.

How can you be related to the 24th President of the United States and not also be related to the 22nd? Are you sure you didn’t mean the 23rd, Benjamin Harrison?

Yeah I meant 23rd. And who was 22nd?
Thanks *.

The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States are the same person, Grover Cleveland.

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Since the best way to minimize the damage from laser weapons is reflective armor, what would be the logical countermeasure to such a defense?

Something to absorb the laser and store the energy for later. Reflection could cause collateral damage.

Deflection through a heavy gas could be just as bad. What about a Deharmonizer?

explosive bullets usually deal with reflective armor well enough.

De-armorizer? Like something that gets rid of shielding?

incredibly corrosive acid can do most of this type of thing anyway. it can be in hollow bullets with lining on the inside, or in an explosive.

de-harmonizer. Most lasers today use energy harmonics to create either a destructive force, or a simple light beam. If you can find a frequency that can interrupt the resonance of energies, then the laser should be rendered useless.

@HB: So you suggest what is basically a super-efficient solar panel? That could work, but if you don’t make it so that it can absorb energy at rapid enough pace, it will melt.

@Nero: How would you mount something designed to disrupt the beam cohesion of the laser on the outside of a vehicle? Or are you thinking of something low-tech, like a “studded” mirror that would reflect the light in multiple directions and thus reduce its “force” (technically it’s just heat transfer and not actually the force that causes the damage, since photons are essentially mass-less).

Basically. And yeah that is a problem. But I’m confident in our capability.

honestly, its not realy practical to mount much of this as a serious defence unless you actually plan on dealing with a laser. there are not a huge amount.

Well think of it like this: aliens whom have super advanced laser weapons. Then what? Also the military is developing an airborne laser platform for long distance air to air support.

@ninja: Im thinking more along the lines of a heat sink and mirrors for low-tech, It might not stop it, but it may just buy that extra time. high-tech would be pretty simple. A strong magnetic field would suffice, projected by an array of proportional magnetic poles to form a disruption bubble.
EDIT: problem with that is attracting all the junk around you. Could become an asset if the laser hits that instead of you.

You haven’t seen what the Smiling Ninja Inc. R&D labs have been working on recently, have you?

Course not, how does one observe NINJA R&D?

@Nero you wouldn’t be able to hold a gun, nor would your entire platoon.

@* you got a portal gun yet? Aperture science has you beat there.

M16 is mainly plastic, P90 fires plastic rounds. Incorporating the two doesn’t seem so hard, really.

my army will be made of squirrels and lawn gnomes. lasers are irrelevant.

It’s very difficult.

In any event, wouldn’t sustaining such a magnetic field in a bubble around the vehicle be fairly power intensive? Would you be able to power both your own lasers and the de-harmonizer, or would you have to use more conventional weaponry? And you would have to keep it on anytime you even slightly suspected that lasers might be used, since you obviously wouldn’t have time to react.

@Kazi: Wouldn’t even a thin layer of acid-resistant, transparent plastic negate most of the effect of the acidic bullets? Especially if were flexible? As for the explosive rounds, unless you either had very precise aim (entirely possible given the rapidly advancing state of targeting computers) or the material was extremely fragile (unlikely) you would need to expend quite a bit of ammunition to render the reflective armor useless.

Conventional weaponry of high caliber has proven itself time and time again. Now, assuming that we have come far enough to be shooting lasers, I assumed we had a powerful and reliable source of energy.

The Fn-P90 can fire plastic rounds. Although the m-16 is partly made of plastic it fires metal rounds and defiantly has enough metal to get inseparably stuck to you with that magnetic field.

Probably, but could it reliably power both is the question. I’m not quite sure what the size requirements for sustained fusion reactions are, so I really don’t know. I do know that unless we are talking battleships, fission is out of the question.

Conventional high-caliber weaponry is interceptable, theoretically, lasers are not.

@HB: There is the beauty of the poles. using two emmiters on different links of the poles (one+, one-) Theoretically it is possible to only attract the fields to themselves. That said, the field between them, being a double polarity, should have enough strength to eliminate the threat of lasers.

Couldn’t that be disrupted by a hostile’s own magnetic field, even one of much smaller size?

True, I was wondering about that. Very good.

Indeed it could, but if you think about it, it really isn’t logical. There would be no way to fire through a double-field with lasers or conventional weaponry, so low-tech is the way to go here.

Yeah that is the only option really but it may only buy time…

Why not? Couldn’t you make a plastic missile? Even if it was just dumb-fire, all the critical components can be made without metal. The magnetic field would have no effect. And disrupting an opponent’s magnetic field could cause to soviet-era car parked tin the alley-way to go hurtling toward the “shielded” vehicle.

Ehhh if were talking about an advanced alien civilization here.

acr r 4 suk

No comprendo. Sprekken ze English.

You’re right, Ninja, that’s pretty much where I draw the line. I mean, I couldn’t stop you from saying something, but it’d be pretty uncomfortable for anybody who understood why it’s a particularly touchy subject. You’d have to be autistic to make that joke.