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Post by 23skidoo on Jan 10, 2008 8:31:17 GMT -5
is it possible, and perhaps preferable at this early stage of development to include the training/mind control of the worlds starling population. With numbers in the trillions they would be a formiddle way of kickstarting spin cycles in the air. If you coated them either in NO2 or a flammable agent you could also induce temperature change. If any of them showed any signs of insubordination you could feed them to the white fluffy cat on your lap. I feel they have small brains and should be easy to manipulate - weather it would work in your grand scheme or not I cannot say.
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 10, 2008 11:37:22 GMT -5
NO2? You mean N20? The US actually came perilously close to training an army of killer fire-bearing bats in WWII, if I remember my history correctly, this is probably the strangest idea anyone has yet offered me.
I was actually considering fiddling with algae in the ocean as a means of kickstarting/kickstopping(?) the evaporation that hurricanes feed off...my big problem is that almost all storm systems require rapid cooling at some part of the storm, and rapid cooling of big masses of air is damn hard.
EDIT: You were right, NO2 is the atmosphere-scrambling gas, N20 is laughing gas... shame on me
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Post by 23skidoo on Jan 10, 2008 11:48:42 GMT -5
shames not so bad, you could have lied and I would have believed you - thats why you are the one to carry out this madness. Just out of interest, are we trying to herald in the end of mankind (not the wrestler, he's too big) or of all lif as we know it. Or is it just cause as much damage as possible with 1 mind, 2 arms, $100 and 365 days.
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 10, 2008 12:47:19 GMT -5
I'm not actually going to build something, I'm going to design something, it's a thought experiment to see if science fiction has come true or not. There are MUCH easier ways to cause a lot of damage with very little money. Even if you look at the energy-to-damage ratio, a hurricane machine would suck up the power of thousands of H-bombs, and do a little less damage than just one.
I think the USA would do well to get defense experts to sit down with sci-fi authors, we all have very scary ways of causing mayhem with little effort.
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Jan 10, 2008 13:54:52 GMT -5
lets just build a female hooker robot or a jet pack. you know something we can use.
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 10, 2008 14:45:17 GMT -5
I've made robot's before, one on my own, one with friends I'm also working (in some small part) with the Parks Aerospace college to build a robot for the google prize, though my job largely consists of building little tounge-depressor and pipe cleaner models and naming them. animatronics is hard, especially with people, especially especially with people who you want to look pretty
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Post by Redwave on Jan 10, 2008 18:54:21 GMT -5
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 10, 2008 19:36:57 GMT -5
I'd heard of that, surprisingly, that article lists an idea that I swear the army must have stolen from me, inoculating the army with bee pheromones and unleashing swarms of bees on them. In one of my books, the eminent Padre Romero does the same thing with fire ants.
The possibility of any chemical aphrodisiac completely overwhelming the willpower of a human being seems slightly implausible to me, at least with today's technology. then again, I've been wrong before.
If I wanted to cut a hole in the bottom of military morale, I'd bury LRAD like devices in the sand and turn 'em on at night...goodbye sleep, hello 12 hours at night combing the desert for half-a-dozen noisemakers.
Predictably, I use this trick in one of my stories as well
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Jan 11, 2008 6:13:40 GMT -5
i'll have my trained suicide lemming squad kill you all.
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Post by Magatsu Taito on Jan 11, 2008 10:11:03 GMT -5
Dude, I wanna hit you with a Gay Bomb? ;D
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Post by Angel on Jan 13, 2008 13:54:39 GMT -5
Weather Machine. I also demand the ability to shoot lighting bolts.
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 13, 2008 14:57:46 GMT -5
I'm having real trouble coming up with a lightning bolt machine that doesn't completely strain the laws of credibility...the problem is that air has this bothersome tendency to interfere with charged particles,
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Post by Angel on Jan 13, 2008 15:20:18 GMT -5
You know, I've never actually given thought to making a lightning bolt machine. But I do know what you're feeling when it comes to air messing things up. It took me a while to figure out an effective, non-vacuum way of dealing with blooming. Stupid lasers.
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 13, 2008 18:29:35 GMT -5
You know, I've never actually given thought to making a lightning bolt machine. But I do know what you're feeling when it comes to air messing things up. It took me a while to figure out an effective, non-vacuum way of dealing with blooming. Stupid lasers. Tesla would be proud Ironically, I'm finding that it would be (relatively) easier to make a city-sized hurricane than a reasonably powerful snowstorm...hell, mankind may figure out how to make hurricanes before we can produce and fire a facsimile bolt of lightning...it's a wonderful world!
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Jan 14, 2008 17:42:10 GMT -5
i still can't get over the gay bomb. would that even work in Pakistan?
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