Recent content by VNV

I have a rather odd question that delves outside of the realm of reality just a bit. Recently, I've had a bit of an obsession with designing ludicrous weapons. My current venture is a little bugger I call the 20MM Magnetic Accelerator Rotary Cannon. The MARC20 for short. It's an eight barreled...

I mean an elliptical jump. It's too far away for a completely vertical fall. Ten thousand kilometers(the exopause, not the edge of space but the edge of a vacuum) is a very big distance. To put it in perspective, our planet is only a few hundred km over 12,000.

I don't know all the values of it. I can't find anything telling me how to find drag on a boxy humanoid figure. Also, don't have a calculator. I have a simple app, and the rest I have to do by pencil and paper.

Also, I only need the end results. I know about all the technical algebraic formulae. I'm trying to keep a strong base in reality here. I want the readers to look at what I present to them, see that it's realistic, perfectly detailed, and I want them to be amazed.

I believed terminal velocity and speed of the fall were one and the same after a certain limit. They drop head first until about 300 km and then spread eagle. The Kinetic Absorption Modules simply stop the soldier from getting knocked around by the forces. If they're falling, it won't do...

Extra Orbital Atmospheric Re-Entry, or the Art of Leaping From Orbiting Starships onto Planets. Ignoring that my TITANs are donned in A.T.L.A.S. PCA and thereby protected by force-evaporating malarkey nodes, I want to know how they'd be in the middle of these jumps. In my book, a TITAN Super...

Thank you all for your help. I didn't quite understand all of it when you got really scientific with it(like adding two d's to e=mc squared), but I got the general idea of it. Force must either be equalized or it has to go someplace else. Thank you all for your time.

I'm aware that there are differences in magnetic fields. If magnets stuck to me, I wouldn't keep dropping them on my toes. The link is rather interesting, thank you for it. I actually didn't know water was diamagnetic; or that diamagnetism was a thing at all. I've only begun genuinely looking...

What about organic beings? Do we, humans and bears and such, produce a macroscopic MF?

I got the impression of a suit of armor with airbags in it. It make me laugh more than it should have, really. Unfortunately, I'm not good with 'low detail', and like to have a basis of information to fall back on; know what the limits and such are for the technology. I know KAMs would be...

In my science fiction universe, I have a small technology called a 'Kinetic Absorption Module'. It's not mentioned very often, but it's a key component of my supersoldiers' armor. How it works is it acts like a shock absorber, but within a small, one inch long by one and a half inch wide...

Hello, people of whichever gender identity you like! Skipping the easily veered verbose verbiage V verbalized in V for Vendetta in lieu of a common introduction, I prefer go by the initial V. The NV are also intials, but not my first or middle names. I'm a 19 year old male from the Midsouthern...