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Old 2008-08-07, 05:03   Link #2106
rastilin
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What is youkai? I encounter the term while I was playing battle Moon Wars.
I believe it translates into "daemon".

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We can make anti-matter, but we can't launch it towards the sun with our current technology. And plus, when is F/SN in? Definitely a time before 2008, right? As long as technology doesn't progress we still can't destroy it no matter what we pour in, therefore it is still impossible for now and thus a miracle at that moment.
Now hold on, I am fundamentally insulted by your proposition. You're massively underestimating current technology and this is why I find the definition of "True Magic" to be so irritating. With enough resources we can do almost but not quite anything at any level of technology. Technology makes harder things considerably cheaper than they were before, but with enough money, they ARE possible. When I mentioned this to my friends, they pointed out rightly that with unlimited resources, which are said to still be less than the potential of "True Magic" you could destroy the sun as a stone-age culture by requesting a big enough pile of rocks, which would subsequently turn into a supermassive black hole and absorb it. I was thinking I'd use a sequence of satellites to exert a gravitational pull on a nearby black hole, either turning it so it's proton jet smashes the sun into bits or pulling it into the vicinity and thereby causing a slam. We DO have the technology now, it would take millions of years to get there and require more raw materials than exist in several solar systems, but we could do it if we had the stuff, which you said we did. Compared to that, hurtling antimatter into the sun is easy, use an orbital rail-weapon which, incidentally, the military is testing (Not the orbital bit, the "fist of god" design didn't need it).

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A 500kW 2000coil electromagnet does the job perfectly. And you can shoot it with a linear emf catapult . All you need to do is to add camouflage...
Why bother with a catapult? Have independent superconductive rails beneath the ground and exert magnetic fields all over the battlefield as needed. Calibration would be a pain and you'd need to either compress the material or cool it to zero. But it's doable. The technology powers bullet trains.
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