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Since when has the Federation beaten a rival AQ power in a war? The war with the Romulans was essentially a standoff, and the Federation conceeded the right to ever develop cloaking technology to get that. The actual outcome of the Cardassian war is unclear, but the Federation ceded substantial amo...

Are gigawatt figures for phasers valid? I've never actually done the math for them, and I'm quite sure they work by CR and not DET.

Anyone who thinks RHA is just as easy to fracture as granite is a blithering idiot. That's all there is to it.

Roondar is equating phasers as some sort of super shaped charge weapon concentrating tons of TNT at one point, therefore breaking through tank armor.

Their counter argument is that if other AQ powers have tanks or ground vehicles and that the Federation has beaten them in war, the Federation must have tanks.

And the usual claims of vaporizing granite instantly translates into vaporizing RHA.

I just got the "UFP wins it's wars, so it therefore has superior tech and tanks". The comparison between the Allies and Axis during WW2 apparently went clear over his head, even when some German weapons were lightyears ahead of anything the Allies had at the time. I never thought proving t...

++http://www.strek-v-swars.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=742 I know the debates at that site are frowned upon, but this topic of a Fed Army going toe-to-toe with a modern army without the usual toys(transporters, orbital support) is getting a bit outlandish. Newland is claiming that we can "estima...

I think the reason the people at strek-v-swars can get followers is that many people, such as myself don't have firm scientific grounding, and throwing big words around will convince some of them. Every time anyone brings up Mike's pages BigHairy immediately says that he's refuted them and refuses t...

Just browsing through the stek-v-swars board, and saw this- ++http://www.strek-v-swars.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=409 I've heard lots of claims rattling around recently, choking up a number of threads. The claims revolve (as usual) around the ICS claims of 200 gigaton medium turbolasers... and tryin...

Well, if you got just 2 to hit directly without interception, you'd be exposing the cube to over 100 Mt. That's near the firepower of a few TL's on an ISD. :) And I don't see the Borg adapting shields working against something that has no single frequency to adapt to. But, as you pointed out, a shut...

Well, the test version only had a 50Mt yield, had Uranium been used, it would have had 100Mt. So 50Mt would be directed against the target. Perhaps the unwieldyness could be negated by using it on targets you can't possibly miss, like the above mentioned cube, orbital defense stations, and star base...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba Simply put, the Tsar Bomba was the most largest nuclear device in history. It was not intended as a weapon, and detonated as a stunt during the Cold War. The yield was around 50 Mt, if uranium had been used in the bomb, the yield would have been 100 Mt. The on...

It isn't that surprising considering the screw-ups in airport security. Wasn't there a case a few years back about detaining a guy who had a Medal of Honor because they thought it was a weapon from all the points on it?

The biggest problem I've seen for SoD is when Riker's phaser shoots off-axis once. Even worse is when some debaters use this as evidence that phasers have "smart" auto-targeting.

Ok, I think I put the casualties for option A higher than I should have, so I edited the OP.

I'm surprised some people were actually for Country A, because I thought the casualties were so high it would deter anyone from picking that option. But obviously, for smaller nations with smaller populations, country B is much more preferrable.

Imagine if your country was attacked by two nations and forced to begin a war. However, through diplomatic methods, you can make peace with one of them and only be forced to fight the other. The war that you can expect from each nation is diferrent from the other. So- Attack Country A- The war will ...

The segment he did with Barbara Walters turned my fucking stomache on Peter Jennings. That had to be the most self-serving piece of shit I've ever seen! O'Reilly would not stop interrupting Walters and comparing himself to Peter Jennings like they were in the same league. He reduced a rememberance ...

These posts have beens split from the Harry Potter and Gitmo thread-Bean American fundies on the other hand make up the majority population Sorry to nitpick, but some bible thumpers south of the Mason-Dixon line does not make a majority. As for the OP, I'm wondering, do the books have to be transla...

Hey guys, thanks for all the info.

Hate to ask again, but is there a kind of "Imperial Order of Battle"? With the sizes of platoons, companies, and their weapon loadouts?

Again, thanks for the info.

It's not really that surprising. After WWII many Jewish people who'd survived the Holocaust began giving some Germans in refugee camps the same treatment. Not that many people know about it, as it's been swept under the rug. Put in Solomon Morel in a Google search, and you'd get some interesting res...

I'm thinking of making a fanfic and have a few questions regarding Stormtroopers. Apart from the E-11 and and the DLT-19, what other weapons do stormtroopers have? Are their ranks like the ranks in modern militaries, like private, pfc, corporal, the diferrent grades of sergeant, and commisioned offi...

I'm not sure if the DS can do it, but since it's just a really big turbolaser, can't it just fire a giant flakburst and wipe out half the fleet its facing?

The latest reply from BigHairyMountainMan made my day- What physical attacks? The holodeck doesn't qualify. What remains? Blades, fists... low velocity physical attacks. Not kinetic attacks. Man, I never knew punching somebody was not a kinetic energy attack! I wonder what it is then..... :roll: I t...

I love the logic that guy uses- The best way to avoid a blow, or a borg drone's injection tubules, is to not be there. Therefore, you move your ass. Any fighting teacher that never says that is a monumental dumbass. You must have this 'put them on a pedestal' view of 'competent soldier worth his sal...

Don't try to understand the technobabble. Just run with it.

That's what I like about Stargate. You don't get a long-winded explanation Data could have given. The tech just works..