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The cycle has to be broken sometime, doesn't it? #startrekonline
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It's hard not to be nervous about this one, especially with the drastic changes it went through after being picked up by Cryptic.
Just wish I'd gotten into the beta so I'd have some idea of how it played. #startrekonline
11/09/09
If they can get the away mission combat worked out I think this will be a fantastic Space MMO and the very true competitor to EVE Online. #startrekonline
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I hope Star Trek doesn't turn out that way because the setting, ship combat, and plot all seem so great right now. #startrekonline
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Or maybe the devs just wanted to make it look cool. #startrekonline
10/28/09
even so their would be no oxygen for the explosion to spread out into - certainly no fiery debris emanating from the center.
It would probably look more like a huge flash, with little to no debris in the aftermath - also the ship that shot it would probably be severely damaged by all the high speed projectiles shot out from the explosion. #startrekonline
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While we're on the topic, you wouldn't see those lasers in picture 3 either. #startrekonline
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Of course, I am assuming the biolithic converter array was working properly for the above analysis, but that seems pretty obvious. #startrekonline
10/28/09
sorry, I missed it - damn Romulan cloaking technology.. #startrekonline
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explode 100 objects in space and no two explosions will be the same.
explode 100 objects in different regions of the Galaxy and the results get even more distant.
see where I'm going with this? #startrekonline
10/29/09
A massive amount of energy is delivered to a mass. Without a medium of propagation (for instance, our atmosphere), a lot of the simple mechanics of an 'explosion' are very different than what one automatically assumes will happen. For instance, objects that are flung outward from the propagation point do not slow with distance from said point (reliant of gravitational forces and impact to change velocity). Thermal energy that had been transferred to the matter involved would only be lost through radiation and that would be displayed by light emission. The term "white hot" comes to mind, like with a light bulb filament. Except, consider energies orders of magnitude greater, metals reaching evaporation, etc. I would be hard pressed to not imagine a flash occurring, as diagorus predicted.
Anyway, why do you feel he needs to prove credentials for there to be any credibility in his explanation? The burden of proof is on you, in my opinion, if you feel like attacking his idea. Instead, you scoffed and wrote him off without considering his points. Critical thinking needs to be applied here imo. #startrekonline
10/30/09
we have very little experience with the sheer variables accouted for in vacuum space.
in fact, with every NASA launch something new about space is learned... including weather. #startrekonline
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Our greatest minds used to say aviation was impossible. #startrekonline
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in the most recent of studies we've nearly confirmed that there is indeed hydrogen in far off regions of space! It's quite possible there's oxygen too.
do you live on a different planet than I? #startrekonline
11/02/09
I recognize there are unknowns, but I like to account for the knowns and get a good approximation rather than turn a blind eye. Yes, there is practically zero chance that two explosions will be identical, but that doesn't mean that was can't find common ground between all explosions. Then you go from there. diagorus applied some basic physics to the situation and made a stab at what might happen. You didn't evaluate it though, but dismissed it with the unknown. Pick apart his points, counter-argue, something.
Anyway, I'm guilty of being over-critical, but reading and replying on the internet tends to make me so. Sometimes I hate this medium. #startrekonline
11/02/09
someone claims it as FACT that a space explosion couldn't possibly look like that. EVER.
it's this very FACT that needs to be established. I neednt do anything further.
you championed the popular claim, also stating that it is a FACT that there is no O2 is space. ANYWHERE.
you must back this claim. I never declared any facts I need to back, only asked--rather snarkily--for credentials on the subject.
I know it is unlikely that we'll ever find atmospheric enirons capable of mimicking the very BOOM we see in cinema and games... but I'm smart enough not to throw the word FACT around. Especially when we're talking deep space FACTS. #startrekonline
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tbh I don't think STO will do that well. It may gain enough subs to pay for development costs, but it won't do as well as SWTOR me thinks.
10/17/09
Lo but forsooth I say, is there any redemption to be had here? Nay the answer is sadly. The fates hath penned the tale verily and thus...that no intellectual property of any esteemed worth such as this will see nary a success when placed in the hands of intention to be born to us again wearing the mantle of the massive online experience.
It is better to let these tales be told, and whence they are told once, to lay inscribed in our hearts as if they were chiseled into stone.
When thou dost see the title and the tale arising again held high in hand and proclaimed across the lands as to be issued a new life, a new existence in the realm of online role playing, then it is better, yea, mandate, that you take up your sword and swift! To cut the hand down! Lest we be remiss at the loss of our money and pride at the purchase once again.
~Sober Sean, the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Nine. #cryptic
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