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Bastard.





Eric Storm

1. CAMP sucks.
2. With the exception of Death Eaters in Harry Potter, I can't actually think of too many magical stories where people fly unaided.  Even fairy tale witches use brooms.  In the story, I did actually talk about David attempting to make a high-power levitation potion that would have allowed for flight of a limited type.  It didn't work.  I rejected at the very beginning the idea of magicians flying like superheroes.  It takes too much humanity out of things.

Eric Storm

Take it from the author.

Eric Storm

Eric I know you wrote Camp early and feel too many mistakes were made  in it but it was what got me to start reading your work I will still ocassionally go back and reread it

You may not remember you and I had an extensive conversation shortly after i joined here we discussed naval tactics and you wanted an explanation of why an air wing commander was called CAG. Did my best Nautical speak is basically another language but you did not do bad Eric. Only thing I recall was a female bridge watchstander who changed from seaman to ensign but crap eric that was minor

darthel0101 wrote:

The one that makes me cringe every time I read it is the battle of the ballistics.
The telekinetics didn't need to slow them down, they needed to speed them up -- laterally.

Erm... how would making them move sideways help things?  They're still going to blow up somewhere.

Eric Storm

darthel0101 wrote:

The one that makes me cringe every time I read it is the battle of the ballistics.
The telekinetics didn't need to slow them down, they needed to speed them up -- laterally.

Hey, chief,
Have ya heard about the changes being brought into action by the Gerald Ford carrier?
One of the biggest is the elimination of a LOT of steam lines and the transformation of the cats from steam to E-Mag. A lot smoother acceleration and true acceleration throughout the launch instead of dwindling with the steam pressure drop.

When and if they get the bugs out they have a winner. biggest trouble aboard carriers was lack of fresh water. you cannot make steam out of salt water. dwindling pressure? research hydraulic cats sometime I have seen cold cat shots not funny at all to see plane slow down then just tip over at walking pace then get run over. This is the way things work the electro cats are likely the future basically a Hmm what is that gun using rails? yes rail gun. The temp close to the cats was awful also. Flight deck is the only place to work

ChiefRock wrote:

Eric Storm wrote:

darthel0101 wrote:

The one that makes me cringe every time I read it is the battle of the ballistics.
The telekinetics didn't need to slow them down, they needed to speed them up -- laterally.

Erm... how would making them move sideways help things?  They're still going to blow up somewhere.

Eric Storm

I think what he is calling a battle is not that but the worlds biggest math problem. any change in ballistics has the potential of generating a miss lateral movement yes speed yes angle yes The way I have always seen telekinetics is they ignore the problem they just concentrate on where things go and they do

I assume he was talking about the Russian ICBM attack (ie, ballistic missiles).  On that assumption, I'm unclear as to what shoving the thing sideways would achieve, since they weren't worried about what specific point targets would be hit, but simply that ANY spot would be hit.

As to telekinetics trying to figure out the mathematics of ballistics...  The computer was invented for this very purpose: I don't think people are going to be able to work it out on the fly.

Eric Storm

Eric Storm wrote:

ChiefRock wrote:

Eric Storm wrote:

Erm... how would making them move sideways help things?  They're still going to blow up somewhere.

Eric Storm

I think what he is calling a battle is not that but the worlds biggest math problem. any change in ballistics has the potential of generating a miss lateral movement yes speed yes angle yes The way I have always seen telekinetics is they ignore the problem they just concentrate on where things go and they do

I assume he was talking about the Russian ICBM attack (ie, ballistic missiles).  On that assumption, I'm unclear as to what shoving the thing sideways would achieve, since they weren't worried about what specific point targets would be hit, but simply that ANY spot would be hit.

As to telekinetics trying to figure out the mathematics of ballistics...  The computer was invented for this very purpose: I don't think people are going to be able to work it out on the fly.

Eric Storm

OK I was thinking of the fleet launch of shipkillers ours and theres. (I think you called them all harpoons, which was our shipkiller the russians had one similar) I agree on inability to compute without a computer but how did the telekinetics handle both cases? in the naval battle they just blew them up early until there ability was saturated. assume the strategic missiles were the same the telekinetics blew them up until there ability was saturated??

LOL well I guess I am going to have to also since I made that many errors. Yes I knew Ensigns do not normally man the helm but I was an airdale I was seldom allowed on the bridge you would have thought my feet smelled or something. I worked the flight deck my second home

The lateral acceleration was looking at the portrayal of the TKs needing to slow the RVs down before slinging them back into space.
The thing is, they're ballistic - IIRC, from well less than halfway through their ascent. That means that there're falling in an arc (moving both laterally and vertically). If you speed up the lateral, you widen that arc. Since the object was to get them into a non-descending ballistic arc, speeding them up horizontally could put them into supra-orbital or escape velocity trajectory without slowing them down and with a whole lot less effort since the TKs wouldn't be slowing them in the first place.

Remember that the ISS is constantly falling. It just has a LATERAL component to that fall that keeps it at the same distance from the ball underneath it.

For more information, see Wiki - Ballistic missile flight phases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic … ght_phases

Also - an image at https://tutorials.nti.org/wp-content/up … light1.jpg

Last edited by darthel0101 (2020-08-22 03:19:16)

Ballistics to change or to hit a designated target less than a meter across is one thing but to change to hit the sun (which by the way will suck it in if even close) is doable You are trying to overcomplicate a problem

A quick Woodward Academy year 8 question... Is Vivian a Capadra throughout the year so far, or does she ever get promoted to Bandador?  The reason I'm asking is because, in chapter 2, the following seems to indicate a different rank for Vivian.

"Why only attack one wagon, then, though?" Vivian asked, then realized she was speaking out of turn.  "Oh!  Sorry, sir," she said to the vocator.
"No, Bandador (Capadra), it's a good question.  What about it, Vigax?"

I put (Capadra) in because I've seen her rank listed as Capadra both before and after the above reference to Bandador.  Now, if I'm misreading this and it should be talking about someone else, then please let me (us) know.  Or if she actually did get a promotion and later reference to her as a Capadra should be changed to Bandador, then that too would be nice to know.