Warp Spider

Generally speaking, the higher powered ones I test outside. If it's going to make a lot of noise or otherwise draw undue attention I take it out to my friend's farm. Some lower powered stuff I just test in the garage. Actually, it was done with a constant stream of photons from a laser.

It's a highly questionable theory. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's crap, but I would say that it's not as "proven" as people seem to believe.

Natural style? As in the way cavemen fought?

Maybe she's a "cougar?" I met a few of those when I was a youngin'.

Both people will hit the floor, and even stiking arts teach how to fall. However, I would argue that a striker would be much better conditioned to withstand impacts, such as those from striking a hard floor.

Big compared to the pellet of anti-matter yes. Big overall? Not necessarily. It's basically the same as what you referred to before about the EPR pairs.. but you can do that to as many particles as you see fit, thus allowing you to teleport as large or as small an object as you like. That's the easy part, though I use a different system that allows a constant output rather than a pulsed discharge. Now explain how one goes about electrocuting a target from a hundred feet away? How easy is it now? A cannon is far more than a tube. Not only do you require a bolt mechanism, but in case you don't use a catridge system it's a bit more complicated. Obviously a cartridge system would have difficulty generating that high of a velocity due to it's nature. How do I make a projectile go so fast? Long barrel + lightweight projectile + extreme chamber pressure. Aluminum plates have been penetrated by a jet of water fired from a capacitor discharge gun. Railguns were around before the year 1920. Apparently you are quite pessimistic about modern weapons technology. How do I power it? The wall outlet. I'm surprised you would even ask when energy is so readily availible in the developed world. They aren't that hard to build, but I guess you've never tried? I'm a microbiological engineer. It pays more than enough for me to do my experiments.

I think Butterbean and Tank Abbot would disagree with you. Having said that, natural ability plays a role, so although you have been training longer, it's possible that he's just faster/stronger/whatever. I'd try sparring with other people to see if he's just exceptionally good or if there's something else.

Well, I can't speak for starchild, but I agree. "Combat Ki," aka withstanding blows, has been a trick performed by magicians for a long time. There's nothing mystical about it.

No, Standups for inactivity and short rounds definetly do not favor a grappler. Relatively soft flooring and a number of strikes being prohibited (which ones specifically depends on the event in question) definately does, however.

Possibly a great deal.. like it matters? Make the field bigger than you need it to be, leaving room for error. That would be the simple solution. Not true, the demonstration I was reffering to involved the teleportation of a great deal of photons. Quantum physics and nuclear physics aren't particularly related to anti-matter, and I'd hardly call a device that can electrocute nearly any living creature in a split second at range a "toy." Likewise, I don't think that guided missiles are toys, nor are cannons that launch galvanized steel slugs at near relativistic velocities.

Bleh. MMA is not an accurate indication of real fighting in my opinion. This topic has been done to death though. The rules in MMA favour grapplers.

Don't be a silly billy. How can dying not be bad? How on earth have you survived to adulthood? Well, I suppose that's a more religeous question than anything else. I don't consider death to be that bad. When I die, I'll just get to go to heaven anyway, so what's the harm in that? What's an elderly lady supposed to do? Hit them with her handbag? Admittedly, there's not much they could do, but they should still try. Well, we mostly practice indoors but sometimes in the back yard. And don't knock experimental weaponry! Blowing things to kingdom come rules!

My comparison was to show you how senseless your argument is. What makes you think anti-matter is any different from regular matter? Instead of asking me to prove that it's the same, how about you prove that it's different? It doesn't have to be particularly isolated. If you have so much difficulty understanding the concept of miniaturization and scale, perhaps you could substitute the tokamak for a permanent magnet. That would work well enough to serve as a projectile. I sincerely hope you did not just catch on to that now. I felt that this was fairly self-explanatory when I said it near the very beginning of this discussion: "To discharge the weapon you could fire a small, RTG powered Tokamak containing a pellet of anti-matter." Really? So you can read my mind then and know what I suspect to be true and what I accept completely as being true? Well, that would of course be far superior to the experience of someone who develops experimental weapons. Tell me, when was the last time YOU built a guided missile? For that matter, when was the last time you built even a lowly remote-controlled detonator? It was much more than just a single particle. Teleporting a person may be questionable due to the philosophical question of transporting the conciousness, but teleporting matter is no great feat. You still don't seem to get it. Why throw a grenade when you could just run up and chuck the fragments manually? After all, that would use far less energy than building an explosive, right? The reason is because you can build a bomb/bullet/whatever over a period of time and unleash it in an instant. Why use a fighter jet? After all, that uses way more energy. It would be far better to just carry the bomb to the target manually. What's the point of cruise missiles? It would be much cheaper and more efficient to just mail the warhead to the target. Manufacture-time efficiency is nearly irrelevant when it comes to military technology. If you think those are absurd examples, then tell me: how much does it cost to build a hydrogen fusion bomb, or even a plutonium fission bomb? Why do they build those if their cost vs. yield is so poor?[/i]

I find weapons work a lot better.

Noone's arguing that pressure points do not exist. I'm just saying - there are no pressure points that will kill you just by being struck with a moderate amount of force. (obviously if you were hit with, say, a wrecking ball, that would probrably kill you regardless.)

JKD wasn't proven over hundreds of battles, nor was Krav Maga. They are both respected martial arts. Neither have long histories, but both can be effective.

Ummm.. right. Not that SWAT teams use 9mm almost exclusively or anything. A 9mm is a worthless weapon compared to an FN-FAL, Pancor Jackhammer, CAWS, or FA-MAS, but it's still a highly effective weapon. This works. I have tested it numerous times. Fortunately I have a good deal of experience playing with gas and fires. (I like to watch it flash.) You don't have to carefully spritz each person and then light them. The fuel from the pump is somewhat pressurized. Just squeeze the trigger and wave the nozzle around. Everyone will be coated. (including yourself, probrably.) If that doesn't stop them, then you can create a monstrous inferno. There is a definate chance you'd die, but it's not so bad. Getting stabbed is probrably just as dangerous. You wouldn't have to worry about innocent bystanders being killed either. If they were innocent, they would have gotten involved instead of remaining indifferent. In my opinion, they deserve to be molten!

What proof do you have that human beings are sentient? I'd call on you to DISprove that they are interchangeable. The tokamaks currently in existence are not very small, but that doesn't mean a small one couldn't be built. A calculator could be built the size of a pin head, but noone's built one because there is no application for it. Seeing as no military (as far as I know) is currently considering using anti-matter for weapons, they have no reason to build small tokamaks. That doesn't mean it could not be done. I suspect there is nitrogen in the air I'm breathing. I haven't checked within the last five minutes, but I still think it's a pretty accurate suspicion. Please don't tell me that your knowledge about anti-matter comes from Star Trek. Teleportation has also been scientifically demonstrated before. I assure you it is quite possible. Every bomb uses more energy to make than it releases. The advantage is that this energy can be expended in a safe environement and then unleashed in a less-safe location. Tell me, what use is there for batteries? After all, they use a lot more energy to charge up than they can supply. Why are they useful?

Please tell me this isn't true. What if you are stopped by the police? If they search you, you will be charged with carrying an offensive weapon. You may be sent to a Young Offenders Institute, where you will be faced with dangerous people every day of the week. In many countries, there is no law against carrying a knife. Otherwise, fishermen and hunters would be constantly thrown in jail. Where I live, you can carry any kind of knife you want, in plain view if you like, but the blade must be below 8 inches long. (I think, it might be 6 inches) Generally speaking you shouldn't produce the knife except in two circumstances: A) You are a trained knife fighter. B) You are in a grappling situation and can pull on the knife and sink it into the other person without them being able to see you draw it. Both of these effectively prevent being disarmed. Also, I don't know where you live, but around here you don't get an automatic life sentance for murder. Plus, if you stab someone trying to defend yourself and they die, that's not murder, it's manslaughter. I think in most places it has to be intentionally killing the person to be murder. I disagree 100% with that. Knowing everyone is armed will help keep the peace. Put yourself in the "bad guys" shoes. If you were carrying a 9mm and you knew noone else had a gun, that would make you pretty confident, wouldn't it? You could take on anybody, right? But what if EVERYONE had a 9mm? Now everyone is on level footing. Would you rob a store with your fists, with a similarly unarmed store clerk? Now, would you rob a store with a handgun, if the employee was also carrying a handgun? It's all about having an advantage over the other person. Being armed, doesn't matter, it's only how armed you are relative to everyone else. I'd also disagree with this. At the beginning, the would-be assailant has control of the situation. They control how quickly it escalates. By taking that control away from them and escalating the situation faster than they wanted it to, you can make them quite uncomfortable. To quote what I wrote in a different thread: These people had every intention of harming us. However, when the situation went from "stab some guy and run away" turned into "everyone dies in a raging fireball" they definately lost their nerve.

I disagree. They are interchangeable, and if I had easy access to a particle accelerator I would gladly prove it. Also I suspect that a tokamak is capable of containing the anti-matter without the use of any currents within the anti-matter, though that would depend on the exact specifications of it as well as the composition of your particular anti-matter.

Well, I'm sticking to my guns on that one. Sometimes a solution presents another problem, but I've never attempted a solution that brought a bigger problem than the original.

I don't think that the students are considered subordinate to the instructor. They are paying to be there, they are not the instructors personal army.. Having said that, I don't think it's bad or unprofessional at all. Saying that requires you to draw a line at where someone is officially "dating" and that can sometimes be a difficult line to draw. I'd rather just say they can do whatever they want, and if they're doing something stupid, then it's their own fault and they are going to be the ones who suffer for it. Why should it be anyone elses business?

That was just an expansion pack. But yes, I realize that there was 4 GTA games.

Anti-matter is identical to matter except in the way that it reacts with normal matter. It does not have "anti-currents," and no currents within the antimatter are needed to suspend it. It will be attracted to an electromagnet made from normal matter just as normal matter would be. Thus, it can be contained within a controlled magnetic field. Though simple to store, scientists to not store it because they have no reason. Though it could be used to make destructive weapons, the big researchers of anti-matter devices are trying to lean AWAY from massively destructive weapons. Building them would also be "dangerous." Not in the sense that it's actually dangerous, because it's only dangerous if something goes wrong. For some reason, however, governments like to assume that something always WILL go wrong, which it usually will not. That, combined with the fact that it's not the be all and end-all of weaponry, is why it is not presently used in weapons. Although reducing a major city to craters would be entertaining, most militaries would prefer to take the structures intact, thus something like a neutron implosion bomb is more called for. Personally however, I prefer the crater route. There is nothing special or magical about anti-matter. The ONLY difference is it cannot be allowed to contact regular matter. It doesn't have anti-currents, opposite polarity, an inverted arrangement of subatomic particles, or anything.

Yes, but the reference was to GTA Vice City.