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Have you never read a science fiction book or a fantasy novel before? This being a site called with "star destroyer" and a massive picture of a star destroyer in the name, I would have thought that questioning whether a certain fictional build or design would be quite reasonable, but apparently not?
Many in fact. But that's irrelevant. What is relevant is that unlike you though I also read factual things, I know the difference between fiction, fantasy, sci fi, and reasonable predictions of the future. Differences we have seen you argue don't exist over and over again in the most painful way possible, all while invoking it as an excuse for ignorance. At every turn you've not only proven enormously ignorant of everything, but proved that you don't even understand
why we have different forums and threads in the first place. Like you are doing
right now polluting a factual thread with your elaborate imaginary nonsense.
It's not like it's a completely out of whack idea, it's a massive moving platform of artillery and guns.
You've proved my point. You don't know a god damn thing about anything real. Yes it is out of wack, blatantly so. You are asking about a moving mountain. Do you grasp this scale at all? How much even 1 cubic kilometer of rock, let alone any metal armor, would weigh? Do you even know that metal is heavier then rock? I suspect you don't really, and that you are a more visual learner then a reader, which is a problem on a message board. If you saw how big your idea is compared to a city you might grasp how dumb it is on instinct if nothing else.
It is one thing to disclaim knowledge of a subject and ask a question about it. It is another to engage in elaborate fantasies, attempt to defend them in detail, cry and scream injustice about it, and then ignore all replies. The former is reasonable, you are doing the latter. And so far I'm the only one actually being generous about it, other people wanted you banned a week ago. And yeah, we do ban people purely for being too stupid. Not easily, but your making a strong case.
I am not a military expert, so I was just asking if it would be at least somewhat effective in real life. How am I supposed to know that it wouldn't be? If you showed a giant brick filled with guns and turrets to the average person, they would probably think it incredibly strong and impenetrable for the present-day military.
Actually they'd probably ask what happens when it simply gets bombed, given that we are now a full generation removed from the Gulf War and been peppered with ever higher quality videos of precision bombing and missile strikes destroying crap ever since that war. Bombs are big and numerous is a pretty simple idea for people. In fact a more likely problem is that average people would overestimate how easily it would be destroyed.
They'd also probably question why you would ever build such a thing, when no such things exist in real life and has no purpose. Things usually don't exist for good reasons. Think about that idea next time. If we have not done it, why might we not have? You can learn something on your own by thinking like that. But of course we have constantly seen projections of your own vast sweeping ignorance thrown into every statement you make. Your arrogant over your own stupidity, and just try to project it onto others. That's why your scenarios are so painfully stupid. You don't understand any of the basics, but instead argue for much more complex combinations of ideas, and then reject even detailed explanations of why, which is why we don't bother anymore in favor of mocking you. People are only so patient.
Meanwhile people have in fact already pointed out why massively thick protection won't work in this thread, before you ever posted, but by your own damn words you didn't even
read the thread to find that out before spouting off nonsense. Which makes your attempt to defend your deliberate illiteracy kind of hilarious, but mostly just sad, pathetic and troll like.
Hell, there are plenty of people who think that a modern military could be defeated by a medieval military of similar or smaller size, and that bullets would simply bounce off the knight's armor, and that apparently every single soldier is a knight but also runs faster than a horse and is impossibly accurate with a bow and arrow, and that archers could just snipe the noisy helicopters out of the air, trebuchets could one shot tanks with extreme precision, and knights could charge through infantry lines like a hot knife through butter.
Your just making up more painful projections of ignorant nonsense here. Thanks for proving my point. A lot of people are stupid certainly, but not like that. The average person understands that guns were better then swords, which is why ass nobody uses a sword anymore. If your going on forums where people argue crap like that then that's
exactly why you should go read something about reality instead.
If they can think this and function perfectly normally in society, I should be allowed to fantasize about giant mobile fortresses decked out with artillery and turrets being a threat to other, mobile modern armies and be completely fine.
You should be allowed? What you think freedom exists on a private web forum on the internet? You're that kind of arrogant stupid hun. I'm not surprised. Oh you can do whatever you want inside your own head, and guess what, the rest of us are allowed to mock you for telling us about it. You get that right? You have no rights here. What Wong says, and by extension the admins he has appointed say, is law. And those laws say the point of the forum is to make fun of people like you. Deal with it or leave. I'd rather you just stupid being so dumb, but nobody will miss you.
And do remember, many people in this world, most in fact, are poor, unemployed or simply stuck in menial dead end jobs. Some better then otherss but just because blithe follower is a description of many people does not make it a desirable one.
But that's why I encourage you to stop fantasying when you don't even understand why your fantasy is fantasy. And clearly don't understand that fantasy that's just nonsensical is usually far more entertainment when it's deliberate comedy then serious. That's why animie is so successful.
Learn something about real things. I'm not telling you to go learn how to calculate a stress curve or the tensile strength of steel in detail, you won't need that. But a few damn basic concepts would do. You might also try reading a military fiction novel from say, Harold Coyle or Larry Bond instead of whatever the hell it is you claim to read now. Even fantasy with Elves or what not, does not have to be otherwise unreasonable or outright stupid, you seem to think that's the only possible point.
You might be 18 to 20 I reckon, your brain keeps developing fairly seriously through age 25, so not all is lost, but with the attitude you have it's currently mission impossible. You aren't just ignorant, you reject improvement. That's called being a fucking idiot.
Reading reddit and internet news websites does count as reading the newspaper or any physical form of news, except it's actually better. Instead of gathering news from only one local source, which was relevant to a few days ago, you can get hundreds of different sources from around the world all at once, some reporting only hours after an incident has occurred.
And.... ignorance again. You don't understand how international news services have worked since the telegraph was invented. Much of the worlds legitimate international news comes from the Reuters newswire service as it is, a shared collection of thousands of world wide reporters who can file stories instantly to an online pool. What a site like reddit does is remove trained gatekeepers who normally filter that stuff and cross check it, and replace them with a mob mentality favoring populist trash voting. But I doubt you understand why that's detrimental to learning, since you're the poster child for what's wrong with it.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956