Could the Borg adapt to gridfire?

[Tod zu den SD.net Idioten]

Comments?

[Stormbringer]

Comments?

The power of it would kill them with one shot preventing any attempt to adapt to it. It's enough power to kill them regardless of adaption.

[NecronLord]

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How the hell could they possibly do that?

[Mr Bean]

What? They Adapt? Commander stop firing at .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% normal power and turn it up abit

[septesix]

What? They Adapt? Commander stop firing at .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% normal power and turn it up abit

Why would a Mind do that? They need some play-toy for funs too , you know

[Stormbringer]

What? They Adapt? Commander stop firing at .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% normal power and turn it up abit

Why would a Mind do that? They need some play-toy for funs too , you know

To keep killing them by incriments! To prolong the sick fun.

[Sea Skimmer]

Even if they could adapt to shear energy, the cube wouldn't even last long enough to transmit any data.

[paladin]

what's gridfire?

[Mr Bean]

Think BFG but Squared by Itself and the Square Squared by itself to the twentyith power

[XaLEv]

what's gridfire?

A weapon the Culture uses. The universe is a hypersphere, with another hypersphere around it and itself enclosing another. Between them is a region of pure energy known as the Grid. Gridfire pulls a little bit of this energy up into realspace, destroying anything there. The figures I've seen for it put the amount of energy in the average incursion on the order of 1e50 J.

[NecronLord]

\The most powerful weapon of Culture ships.

[paladin]

what's gridfire?

A weapon the Culture uses. The universe is a hypersphere, with another hypersphere around it and itself enclosing another. Between them is a region of pure energy known as the Grid. Gridfire pulls a little bit of this energy up into realspace, destroying anything there. The figures I've seen for it put the amount of energy in the average incursion on the order of 1e50 J.

That's an extremely powerful weapon! Only the most rapid and stupid trekkie would believe the borg could adapt to that!

[HemlockGrey]

Yes. They can adapt.


And now flaming hyenas will pour out of my ass.

[Mr Bean]

That's an extremely powerful weapon! Only the most rapid and stupid trekkie would believe the borg could adapt to that!

Yes its on the order of Stars Going Nova Powerful.... Unless Borg cubes can fly through Supernova's no problem(Hmm if you can do that you should be able to fly right through a star no problem I would think)

And you think they can adapt...

[Sea Skimmer]

That's an extremely powerful weapon! Only the most rapid and stupid trekkie would believe the borg could adapt to that!

Yes its on the order of Stars Going Nova Powerful.... Unless Borg cubes can fly through Supernova's no problem(Hmm if you can do that you should be able to fly right through a star no problem I would think)

And you think they can adapt...

IIRC one of the Trek novels has the Doomesday device, which was built to kill Borg evdently, fly through a star. Don't underestimate the idocity of the rabid Trekkie.

[data_link]

Fortuantely for reality, Trek novels aren't canon.

[Sea Skimmer]

Fortuantely for reality, Trek novels aren't canon.

But the most rabid Trekkies don’t accept that and generally hold them to be higher then the shows. However such people don't normally show up on vs. sites, there so hopelessly entwined in Trek that they don’t notice that other sci fi exists unless you go to them.

[Shinova]

Isn't gridfire supposed to have an infinite energy rating? Not 1e50J or anything but infinite?

[XaLEv]

Isn't gridfire supposed to have an infinite energy rating? Not 1e50J or anything but infinite?

Whether or not the Grid itself contains infinite energy is debatable, but Gridfire most certainly would not, as it involves only a tiny fraction of the Grid.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

Comments?

You're an idiot.

[corbomite]

There's also a theory that Gridfire somehow 'removes' the universe around the targeted object.

[GSV Use Psychology]

There's also a theory that Gridfire somehow 'removes' the universe around the targeted object.

That sounds... bizarre. Where'd you hear that?

"That line of light was part of the grid itself. the fabric of pure energy which lay underneath the entire universe, separating this one from the slightly younger, slightly smaller antimatter universe beneath. . . A line of that energy, plucked from nowhere and sliced across the face of the three-dimensional universe, was down there; on and inside the Orbital, boiling the Circlesea, melting the two thousand kilometres of transparent wall, annihilating the base material itself, straight across its thirty-five-thousand-kilometre breadth. Vavatch, that fourteen-million-kilometre hoop, was starting to uncoil."


Consider Phlebas

Pretty explicit description there.

I guess that if you could envelop and object in realspace with the grid, it'd be technically separated from the universe. The Excession might've done something like that , I'm not sure.

[kojikun]

Damnit, I need to read some Culture books. Where should I start? >\

[Vendetta]

Either at the beginning, with Consider Phlebas, or with The Player of Games, because it's ace (one of the best science fiction stories you can buy with money).