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mircea_popescu: that's the only projectile of unlimited energy : a rocket. because it slides under the door of air friction.
mircea_popescu: which is why nukes are rockets rather than bullets, be those bullets accelerated chemically, magnetically or whichever other way.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-13#1502520 << eh, in "theory", which is to say "in the peculiar fictitious narrative some people jack off to". the limiting factor for both is drag, and it ain't going away. "oh but what if we're shooting spherical chickens in a vacuum" "you're still better off with a rocket stfu".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: and the fuckwit parade will consider it tantamount to the bad touch.
mircea_popescu: yeah. just, i'm generally too lazy for non-verbal arts.
mircea_popescu: interpretation being just about the only art worth the time.
mircea_popescu: trilema's even worse, there i have the time to elaborately bait people. here i'm stuck with much shorter intervals.
mircea_popescu: makes perfect sense, which is why the process of searching etc is worthwhile.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger "" gives literal matches, otherwise words are or'd together.
mircea_popescu: it proved to be hands down the #1 most productive learning technique in the harem over the years. i expect it works universally.
mircea_popescu is always keen to discuss later interpretations of what he actually said at some point.
mircea_popescu: in such a situation we sometimes decide to hammer a source into usability (such as, bitcoin, eulora, etc). but just as often decide to write de novo. how exactly this decision is made is not exactly specified.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger as to your words, the political association of git is at best with linus & the linux folk, i dun see what it has to do with github anymore than sunsets have to do with bad photography. but as to the actual issue : on one hand there's a ton of code there ; on the other there's absent functionality.
mircea_popescu: no prob. just didn't want for you to get teh idea i just said that to give you busywork or somesuch. the thing's actually important.
mircea_popescu: it's the comic equivalent of a fat ugly woman that doesn't wash or ever shut up.
mircea_popescu: you mean other than "i want to make a comic and don't perceive i should invest into drawing or writing skills, whoever loves me loves for me!" ?
mircea_popescu: it's not pessimism just because i didn't vote for change!
mircea_popescu: prolly every cavortess or w/e her name was living in hypercube houses
mircea_popescu: this sounds just like the shittier fraternity on campus.
mircea_popescu: well, a one man bukkake's just called "i don't want kids" neh ?
mircea_popescu: we'll discuss stability afterwards, as a sign of me not thinking i'll have to.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise - i have here this battery, contained in a thin PET cover, ready to do ~1,2 MJ at my command. go, construct battery, compressed coil, box of covenant or lavey's teeth assemblage that can do a mj and fit in a gallon.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: much like the current "something better" wall materials kids kick holes into aren't better than brick and concrete. even if some claim otherwise.
mircea_popescu: mats yeah, in a post-oil world all sorts of things might make more sense.
mircea_popescu: oh and the caper : obviously the coil is a lc oscillator. the remainder 95 to 99% energy doesn't simply disappear. it COMES BACK in the circuit. going... the other way.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he says the words, "because kids have brain damage".
mircea_popescu: if you just dump the fuel on enemy, you get 500x bang for the buck. eventually you cook him, through whatever bunker. it's why there's no bunkers in the sun.
mircea_popescu: by and large for every 100 J worth of gas you're putting in, you're getting out ~1J of ~muzzle velocity~. then as ben_vulpes pointed out correctly you lose most of this to air friction (longer range ? MUCH MORE FRICTION!), so you deliver maybe 1kJ or 2 per MJ expended.
mircea_popescu: thing - and proper cored items are way the fuck too expensive to be destroyed over three firings.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-13#1502308 << to put numbers on this : as it recently came out in debate with alf, diesel generators get ~40% efficiency if large enough (closer to my guess than yours! ha-HA!) ; depending on the coil design the resulting electricity will be transferred to projectile somewhere around 1 to 5% efficiency. to go higher air-cored assemblages are excluded because of the high reluctance of the damned
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: btw, you folks know teh epic bill cosby series on parenting ?
mircea_popescu: i'll grant that it has more chances of being useful than the coil gun ; which isn't saying much.
mircea_popescu: werll for that money, keep gas from growing fat after marriage, you got desktop cold fusion.
mircea_popescu: but your problem was that it dun wanna go, it wanna freeze over your assemblages
mircea_popescu: atmosphere contains water. this is a problem, because mass.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes yes. the comparison of the engine to the rocket is flawed. because the rocket doesn't aspire [random gunk] from atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's pretty insane seeing how rocket can maneuver.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's a simple problem of mass conservation though. if your compression factor is 1:10, say, and you burn 1 ton of fuel, you then therefore get a cubic kilometer worth of air, which will contain a ton and a half of water, what do you do with it. it doesn't burn, it doesn't go away. nowwut.
mircea_popescu: mats it's very hard to beat plain and simple fire-air bombs. you gotta put electricity through coils to make the projectile go magnetically, electricity which you got from a combustion generator in the first place.you're about five transforms away, might as well just put the same gasoline in a bottle and throw it at the enemy.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, iirc us navy launched a breadbox sized item at about 10km/s or somesuch. cost a little more than a littoral com-sunkship.
mircea_popescu: it dun work worth a shit, electromagnetism is a self-limiting disease so to speak, but hey.
mircea_popescu: mats you're not the first. that thing's been a solution in search of a problem since ~1916.
mircea_popescu: has the added benefit that it makes me think they have no fucking idea what they're talking about.
mircea_popescu: in fairness i guess they are researching rail guns to fire bullet-like items
mircea_popescu: kinetic usually denotes macroscopic moving items not fucking ions
mircea_popescu: even the fucking nukes are thermic weapons. what kinetic ?
mircea_popescu: what the fuck are these people thinking ? they're seeing themselves as some sort of 17th century naval artillery dudes, firing kugels at one another ? there's nothing kinetic about weapons in use today, they're all thermic.
mircea_popescu wonders at this novel tendency of us military types to call traditional warfare "kinetic".
mircea_popescu: whatever you put in, is now in, not just for the parts you intended but for all the parts it might have.
mircea_popescu: i suppose god might make an appearance. but i dun wish to commit to shape.