Originally posted by mikhael
I know. I'll take this device designed to BLOW THE HELL UP. Then I'll take a complex, delicate and very costly propulsion system and USE IT TO DELIVER THE ORDINANCE THAT'S GOING TO BLOW UP.
Um. Dude, that's just dumb.
Besides, gravitic propulsion would be like invisible and INVISIBLE DOES NOT LOOK COOL.
I really need to lay off the caffeine.
Yes too much caffeine.
Delicate and very costly propoulsion system...well yes and perhaps someone thought that way when they started strapping rocket motors onto warheads during WWII. Or when they started putting electronic guidance systems into those rockets turning them into missiles.
If gravitic propulsion works as well as people theorize it to work...then having the manuvering capability on a warhead is crucial when your trying to hit a moving target. So, not its not dumb...and nothing is ever out of the runnings when it comes to technology.
Onto magnetism. A company in Japan experimented to some success using magnetic propulsion in boats. Some may be familar with the technology in its fictional name "caterpillar drive" (Hunt for the Red October). Apparently it works...but I forget how well. Well enough to make some news headlines some time back...I never really followed up on it. SO magnetism isn't such a "stupid" idea in its entirety either.
My mantra with technology is that given the right amount of time, experience, and expertise...just about anything is possible. And if you look at all the imposibilities of this century (you can't clone animals, you can't break the sound barrier, going to the moon is impossible, flying through the air in a heavier than air craft is impossible, wireless communication is impossible, sending someones voice through electronic wires is impossible, etc.) I'm fairly confident with that mantra.
Oh and I have no opposition to something blowing the hell up in a video game. I'm very much appreciative of as many explosions as possible (OTT's Doomhammer missile anyone?). I'm just playing devils advocate and trying to expand a few minds.