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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8083298" data-attributes="member: 16814"><p>Um, you brought up how naval vessels stopped using armor. I initially pointed out that had no bearing on space, as the reasons for reducing armor on naval vessels was for reasons unique to naval vessels (design requirements and operational changes from needing protection in the gun-line against direct fire shells to better defensive strategy against stand-off weapons). You kept referring to naval vessels, so did I. Don't blame me for the topic you introduced.</p><p></p><p>And lasers aren't heat guns, they kill by heat transfer. Either thermal bloom, overheating, or drilling, all use energy transfer that creates heat. As for gaining energy when you turn, that's not at all what I said. I countered your claim that momentum is reduced by turning -- it's not unless force is applied against the direction of previous movement. Changing the direction of your thrust doesn't reduce forward momentum until and unless you oppose forward travel. You're just adding lateral momentum via lateral thrust. You absolutely do not slow down in turns without that opposing force.</p><p></p><p>As for all over the place, I'm directly responding to the things you say. You're welcome to find a single example of something I introduced as a tangent that wasn't first mentioned by you or that didn't directly go to a thing you asserted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8083298, member: 16814"] Um, you brought up how naval vessels stopped using armor. I initially pointed out that had no bearing on space, as the reasons for reducing armor on naval vessels was for reasons unique to naval vessels (design requirements and operational changes from needing protection in the gun-line against direct fire shells to better defensive strategy against stand-off weapons). You kept referring to naval vessels, so did I. Don't blame me for the topic you introduced. And lasers aren't heat guns, they kill by heat transfer. Either thermal bloom, overheating, or drilling, all use energy transfer that creates heat. As for gaining energy when you turn, that's not at all what I said. I countered your claim that momentum is reduced by turning -- it's not unless force is applied against the direction of previous movement. Changing the direction of your thrust doesn't reduce forward momentum until and unless you oppose forward travel. You're just adding lateral momentum via lateral thrust. You absolutely do not slow down in turns without that opposing force. As for all over the place, I'm directly responding to the things you say. You're welcome to find a single example of something I introduced as a tangent that wasn't first mentioned by you or that didn't directly go to a thing you asserted. [/QUOTE]
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