@Mysticial if you want to answer some of the new questions to boost your rep, go for it. Krazer and I don't need more rep at the moment, but it'd be unfair to you to not answer when there are finally some questions that you can answer.
@JNat I don't intend to answer any, and Krazer probably won't either, but I think if @Mysticial took one or two of them it wouldn't hurt anything. I'll be thinking of questions tonight, and I hope to post 5 or 6 tomorrow, so there should be plenty for everyone.
In episode 1 of Railgun, Misaka's railgun up-ends a good chunk of what appears to be an olympic-sized swimming pool. Later in the same episide, it is revealed that her railgun travels at a velocity of 1030 m/s.
However, the numbers don't add up.
Suppose Misaka uses 10 gram coins. At 1030 m/s,...
@Mysticial I'll let it sit for a while like I did with the DBZ one (that one was unanswered for just a few hours, but that's when the site was actually moving quickly, so I'll leave this for at least a day or two)
I watched the Parappa the Rapper anime several years ago, given that it was one of my favorite video games. However, I quickly discovered a fatal flaw: there was no actual rapping!! The producers instead decided to make it a children's show. How do you make an anime about a rapping dog with no ac...
@Mysticial your railgun question got me thinking... can Biri-Biri's "railgun" can even be considered a railgun? Railguns are called railguns because they have rails. The projectile slides along a pair of parallel rails close together, forming an electric current that generates a magnetic field around the rails...
The magnetic field creates a Lorentz Force that accelerates the projectile along the rails, eventually reaching high speeds by the time it gets to the end of the rails. Source.
Lets say it's possible that she creates the magnetic fields and currents in the configuration depicted in the schematic diagram in the wiki with her ability... it doesn't seem very feasible since the conductive rails are vital as a medium for the current, something air cannot do...
@Mysticial It would seem that Biri-biri's so called "railgun" could more accurately be classified as a coil gun. She could in theory generate a strong, repulsive magnetic field behind the coin and basically blast it at a target.... the magnetic field gradient would then accelerate the coin along the target line at very high speeds....
Well, esper powers are supposed to rely heavily on quantum mechanics. Air's conductivity is really a nonissue, since she can just polarize the vacuum directly. So she probably could create a scenerio which would resemble the force field of a railgun using quantum electrodynamics.
The problem with that is that there are waaaaaay more efficient classical field configurations if you don't have to worry about conductivity and all that other annoying engineering stuff. The main advantage of a railgun is that it's reasonably practical.
To put it another way, conductivity in the classical sense is a statistical property of a large ensemble of particles. If she is able to manipulate quantum randomness, that may be entirely a nonissue.
@Mysticial I thought that's how all espers powers worked to some degree. But in any case she doesn't need to manipulate quantum randomness for individual degrees of freedom (which would be ridiculous); it's enough to be able to do so in such a way that certain random elements are just slightly more likely to have a particular value, with some spatial dependence.This sort of thing is pretty well understood (much better than the nonsense I wrote above) and could be done algorithmically.
@Mysticial They're probably referring to M-theory, which is an 11-dimensional theory that generalizes a bunch of string theories. It's an attempt at a theory of everything (explaining gravity and quantum mechanics), but we don't really know how to do anything in the theory so no one can tell if it's correct or not.
I think that was the other girl from railgun who could teleport far away objects, though.
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting pro...
I've been linking answers relevant to a discussion, but it's hard to just start a new thread or a post that says "new site here, you might be interested, check it out" and expect everyone to be cool about it
I think reddit is a good place to promote, that's sort of what the site is made for
I think maybe the Google+ anime community(ies), there's a couple of them
but I think places like /a/ or (most) anime forums may be a little to close-knit to welcome blatant promotion without some sort of relevance
@jkerian There's Space Pirate Captain Harlock (original series), Arcadia of My Youth (different continuity from the former), Harlock Saga (recasted story), Gun Frontier (Old West version), Endless Odyssey (sequel to the original), and the Space Pirate Captain Harlock Movie (that trailer).
The main site now has lots of unanswered questions about not just shounen. I don't want to dump all of mine right away because then I'll have to come up with more, and some industrious and well-meaning newbie could come by and answer most of them in one go.
For now I think we can hold off on posting a lot more, and any more you come up with can be added if Naruto becomes too dominant on the main page again.
What do you guys think about this question? I can't tell if it's a list question. In fact, the list itself is essentially given (either all of the anime episodes or all the manga chapters, 54 or 71 respectively), but the question is to append data to that list. If I do treat it as a list question, then it meets all of the criteria except that the list might be too long.
The episodes of Aria (all 3 seasons + specials) were not broadcasted in the same original chronological order in the manga (both Aqua and Aria). Instead they were broadcasted in an order to make each season have certain overarching themes. This makes it difficult to compare the individual stories...
Madara Uchiha has added an event to this room's schedule. Our brainstorming session will take place Saturday, 2nd Feb, at 20:00 UTC. If anyone has trouble with that datetime please ping Madara.
we'll be having our second Brainstorming session in chat this Saturday at 20:00 UTC.
The last session discussed about list questions and recruiting members.
This new session will be more open, since the "major" issues were discussed. So I'd like the community members to speak up, and raise majo...
Doujin can either be fan-fiction or original stories. Some get adapted into anime or published manga.
It would be a good idea to establish a criteria for what, if anything, would make a doujin series acceptable for the site.
On that same note, would questions about the doujin industry itself b...
In the first brainstorming session, we've discussed the site's member recruitment model
We have decided to take the following steps:
Make a list of 5-10 series which would interest an audience of experts in anime/manga. Logan M and Mystical are on it.
Seed the sites with good, high quality que...
I've been looking at the tags and I was looking at some of the chat from yesterday and saw that we have a really skewed number of questions. Are there some shows/manga that we want to attract/generate more questions for? And is there a good way to do that?
@MadaraUchiha That's reasonable. I was just following the OP's request to retag the question with pre-cure, which I changed to precure because it's more correct. I didn't even think about pretty-cure, but I agree it's better.
In episode 1 of Railgun, Misaka's railgun up-ends a good chunk of what appears to be an olympic-sized swimming pool. Later in the same episide, it is revealed that her railgun travels at a velocity of 1030 m/s.
However, the numbers don't add up.
Suppose Misaka uses 10 gram coins. At 1030 m/s,...
Doujin can either be fan-fiction or original stories. Some get adapted into anime or published manga.
It would be a good idea to establish a criteria for what, if anything, would make a doujin series acceptable for the site.
On that same note, would questions about the doujin industry itself b...
I've been looking at the tags and I was looking at some of the chat from yesterday and saw that we have a really skewed number of questions. Are there some shows/manga that we want to attract/generate more questions for? And is there a good way to do that?
