Infantry Discussion Thread, Mk. 8 Mod. 0 [No Kaiju]

[Puzikas]

You're no doctor

And ur not human
Ur just
A fish

[Fordorsia]

At least I'm not a fish frog

[Western Pacific Territories]

At least I'm not a fish frog

At least I'm not a circus woman who grew a beard

[Fordorsia]

yeah prem you freak

[Western Pacific Territories]

yeah prem you freak

oh yeah i also forgot im not being mauled by a bunch of triggered feminists

[Fordorsia]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[EsToVnIa]

why can there be hyperburst but not hypoburst

[Fordorsia]

plutonium as bullet propellant y/n

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

why can there be hyperburst but not hypoburst

That's called double-tap.

[Fordorsia]

I see no one is smart enough to comment on my plutominum bullet

aqiz please share the knowlege

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

Have you considered your question was so bad no one wanted to acknowledge it?

[Fordorsia]

nope

[Kassaran]

Isn't there something going around on how there's metal dust which has the potential to become the new energy source for the world?

[Kazarogkai]

Isn't there something going around on how there's metal dust which has the potential to become the new energy source for the world?

Seems that there is researcher on making use of metal, ground down into a powder, as a fuel source of sorts. It's strangely enough carbon neutral, it is recyclable, and depending on the metal used cheap. They say that pretty much any metal can be used in this application so long as it is ground down into a fine powder it will readily combust. The only problem is it is not practical for everyday use as of yet. The most likely candidate will probably be Iron since it is readily available and therefore pretty cheap. Interesting stuff. Doubt that it will become a thing for a couple decades and that is only if oil prices really start sky rocketing.

http://www.gizmag.com/mcgill-metal-powder-fuel/40869/

[EsToVnIa]

re: microcalibers

I remember I once did an AK-107 carbine chambered in (iirc) a shortened 5.45x39mm round (5.45x30mm?)



i think it's fed from 48 round casket magazines

[Nirvash Type TheEND]

Can it hyperburst?

[EsToVnIa]

it gets 1200 rpm so yes

[The Western Sahel and Sahara]

When drawing a guy cradling an AKM, do you draw the arms first or the AK first?

[The Western Sahel and Sahara]

sorry for the double post. My mouse double clicks

[Eahland]

Isn't there something going around on how there's metal dust which has the potential to become the new energy source for the world?

Seems that there is researcher on making use of metal, ground down into a powder, as a fuel source of sorts. It's strangely enough carbon neutral, it is recyclable, and depending on the metal used cheap. They say that pretty much any metal can be used in this application so long as it is ground down into a fine powder it will readily combust. The only problem is it is not practical for everyday use as of yet. The most likely candidate will probably be Iron since it is readily available and therefore pretty cheap. Interesting stuff. Doubt that it will become a thing for a couple decades and that is only if oil prices really start sky rocketing.

http://www.gizmag.com/mcgill-metal-powder-fuel/40869/

Problem is, you've still got to get the energy to refine metal oxides into elemental metals so that you can re-oxidize them to run an engine from somewhere. And thermodynamics says this is a losing game. That article even says, if you read past the breathless "zomg metal burns!" hype, that this isn't a replacement energy source, but rather an energy storage medium like a battery.

[Chinese Peoples]

But by that logic, isn't just about everything only a store of energy? Since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but converted from and into mass, just about everything is also a store of energy (potential difference).

[Laritaia]

Isn't there something going around on how there's metal dust which has the potential to become the new energy source for the world?

Materials that have "the potential to become a new energy source" tend to be radioactive, and radioactive dust is the absoloute last thing you want.

[Khornatenreich]

Isn't there something going around on how there's metal dust which has the potential to become the new energy source for the world?

Materials that have "the potential to become a new energy source" tend to be radioactive, and radioactive dust is the absoloute last thing you want.

Snort Cesium powder like cocaine; feel the power of atom within you, bask in his glow.

[Immoren]

At least I'm not a fish frog

Yes you are.
We are all "fish frogs".

[Eahland]

But by that logic, isn't just about everything only a store of energy? Since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but converted from and into mass, just about everything is also a store of energy (potential difference).

Yeah, but there's a practical difference between stuff that we can find lying around in which natural processes have already stored energy that we can liberate (fossil fuels, fissionable isotopes), and stuff that we only get the energy out of that we put into it, minus losses to entropy (batteries, fuel cells, wound springs, metal ores which need to be refined before they can be burned, and the burning of which will release less useful energy than it took to refine them). And then there's energy that's otherwise going to waste that we could harness for useful purposes (solar, wind, hydro).