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James

02:13

@DaaaahWhoosh Heathen

11 hours later…

Skye

12:45

worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/56635/22678 I could have sworn there was a question on killing/influencing people with images on a TV, I can't find it.

Nex Terren

13:02

@Skye My hunt has found nothing.

@ArtOfCode So dumb question, but the cables to connect the sound card directly to the speakers... What are they called? "Audio cable" is legit the only name I'm finding. Sometimes "6 channel audio cable" if it comes bundled.

Journeyman Geek

@NexTerren I've heard them called interconnects

I call them 3.5mm to 3.5mm audio cables

granted interconnects is an audiophile term and somewhat hipster

Unless you mean rca cables

which are also sometimes used

Skye

@NexTerren Has the podcast come along well?

Nex Terren

@JourneymanGeek Not 3.5mm aux cables. Maybe RCA? Here's the ports, pictured: goo.gl/images/VDKmSa

Journeyman Geek

those are definately 3.5mm

Skye

@NexTerren this might help? tomshardware.com/forum/…

Nex Terren

13:13

@Skye Recorded, edited, given back, ready to go to YouTube!

Journeyman Geek

Unless you mean the two off to the right

Skye

@NexTerren Can't wait :D

Journeyman Geek

that's RCA

Nex Terren

@JourneymanGeek 3.5 carries stereo with optional input, right? These are each single channel.

Journeyman Geek

@NexTerren I think the idea is you connect one per speaker to each channel, yes

Skye

13:15

This website also talks about the audio card and speakers pcguide.com/buy/des/compSound-c.html

Journeyman Geek

More precisely it should be forward/centre/rear

Nex Terren

@Skye huh. This says they're called BOTH RCA and 3.5mm

Journeyman Geek

noooo

Outside the really prosumer stuff, you are not finding RCA in consumer gear

Nex Terren

@JourneymanGeek That is honestly what the link says, right or wrong. :P

HDE 226868

@Green I don't mean to beat up your answer. My comments are just half-baked musings I don't have time to turn into an actual answer yet.

Journeyman Geek

13:19

@NexTerren they are not the same

Nex Terren

@JourneymanGeek Thus my confused "huh."

Skye

@NexTerren my dad says that RCA is not something commonly referred to or something so just ignore it for now?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_connector <wiki page on RCA connectors

Green

@HDE226868 No offense taken. I wrote that answer without doing much research and written on the way into work. My degree of handwaving is very high and my astrophysics is very weak.

Nex Terren

Hmmmm. Thanks for the help, @Skye @JourneymanGeek!

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Nex Terren

18:15

Posted a question. Almost immediately get two answers. Entirely separate ends of the spectrum with no middle ground. I love it.

MolbOrg

19:08

ohh noooo whyyyyy to clooosee worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/57410/20315

wrtiting answer, and this question have answer, after spacex presentation (((

Nex Terren

@MolbOrg If you feel it should be reopened, flag it for reopening, and leave a comment explaining your viewpoint.

MolbOrg

@NexTerren ok tnx

Nex Terren

Ahahah, yeah, I've had a question deleted/closed several times when I hit page 2-3 with my answer before. It hurts. :)

MolbOrg

19:28

@NexTerren I just begun to formulate the answer, when it showed to be closed, so pain is more about opportunity, although Thucydides posted answer in direction I wanted to post, but I wished to be more practical, and ORION is not needed, yhea. This Q fits exactly about ITS and SpaceX

kk will go to reddit, to release steam of my thoughts about ITS and our bright future))

Nex Terren

20:25

@Mołot Hey there.

@Mołot First, thanks for bringing this issue up. I would have asked it as a separate question if I knew it was worth discussing. Hindsight 20/20 and all that.

Mołot

Hi. No problem

Nex Terren

@Mołot First question: Based on your/my/WhatRoughBeast's comments, are we still saying it's impossible or just ineffective?

Mołot

I was a physics student and a Kerbal player, and read a lot of military space fiction, so things like this are something i got (over) sensitive to.

Nex Terren

Haha, yeah, I could never get very good at Kerbal.

Well if it helps you didn't come across as oversensitive in your comments, just helpful!

Mołot

You can shoot missile from orbit. there is a chance it would reach an atmosphere. Much less chance it would survive reentry.

virtually no chance of hitting anything IF you want to stay above the reach of nuclear missiles

because of ballistic nuclear rockets usa, russia and china got quite good at hitting manuevring missiles from space

and yours would not be able to maneuver

Nex Terren

20:29

So with that launch velocity it would be able to launch from orbit, and it would reach the surface of the Earth. If humans don't try to stop it, it'll (more or less, with the variance of wind which while it could be calculated in like normal artillery firing, but I'd imagine it'd be too complex to entirely account for at that altitude) hit target. However it'll be easy to aim for and take out by modern developed nations.

Am I more or less on target with that summary of points?

Mołot

it wouldn't be "too complex"

your missile would hit the atmosphere so much time after the shot

you wouldn't know what wind would be there

Nex Terren

Mkay, so no accounting for wind speed at all.

The rest of it, did I understand correctly?

And they'd take out the shells with... nuclear missiles?

Mołot

Russians use about 20m radius when they have to predict touchdown area for uncontrolled reentry, as far as I remember

no, they'd take them out with missiles meant to hit nuclear missiles ;)

Nex Terren

Okay, that makes more sense.

Mołot

they'd use nuclear missiles if your ships are near LEO

as far as I remember, they can shoot them this high

I remember reading somewhere that geostationary orbit is safe from this, so that's where I imagined your motherships

Nex Terren

20:33

Like... this might be vastly something that nobody knows, but how many counter-missiles are there? Since my question boils down to "how much do we have to upsize this force" it seems like at some point they could fire just enough shells where the counter-nuclear-missile missiles would be exhausted.

Mołot

Anti-ballistic missile

An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a surface-to-air missile designed to counter ballistic missiles (see missile defense). Ballistic missiles are used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads in a ballistic flight trajectory. The term "anti-ballistic missile" is a generic term conveying a system designed to intercept and destroy any type of ballistic threat, however it is commonly used for systems specifically designed to counter intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). == Current counter-ICBM systems == There are only two systems in the world that can intercept ICBMs...

it's classified but

a hell damn lot and they can make more quite fast

Nex Terren

Mmmkay. I'm going to edit my post with this information.

Mołot

or at least that's what everyone wants their opponents to believe ;)

in your story it might be revealed that such missiles were a bluff to disciurage nuclear war

or something

but with them in place, you are not landing anything on Earth, really

@NexTerren hope it'll help :)

Nex Terren

@Mołot Absolutely. I have to handwave certain things, but I like to be as brutal realistic as I can with everything else. That way if I do dial something back (like claiming the number of missiles were a bluff as you suggest) I know the baseline I'm adjusting from.

Mołot

OK, waiting to see your edited question

Nex Terren

20:40

@Mołot Done, actually. The paragraph starting with "edit" includes notes from this discussion. To clean up the comment section, I'm going to remove some of my comments.

See if you see anything wrong with that paragraph. If so I'll edit it again.

Mołot

Seems OK now

Nex Terren

Okay, awesome. Thanks again, @Mołot, for your help.

Mołot

Just let me know the title when it's published ;)

Nex Terren

@Mołot Ha! I'll be sure to.

Mołot

Good night, it's late here

Nex Terren