Interplanetary Warfare 

Did you ever play quake in the 1990s? The fastest internet speed was 56K but most people got 28.8K. This meant pings of over 1 second. As a result everybody had to learn to lag shoot or use area of effect weapons like the rocket launcher.

Funny how easy ppl can learn that skill Dota 1 Pudge here.

Same strategy with Atari Asteroids. Those of us who learned these games in the late 70s and 80s will clearly have a head start in any future interplanetary war. This benefit will possibly be annulled by the fact we'll be too decrepit to be of much help. Hey ho.

We'll just have to download our augmented consciousness into the weapon's OS

Wing Zero thought me that all there bases are belong to us.

AlHoresmi in Stellaris ships are also as big as moons tho and a thousand warships bombing the surface of a planet are but a mild annoyance to the populace

More like months... At least early game

In the same time, cannon and laser hit instantly.

doesnt make any sense.

​@@invernomuto7550 scratch that, mod the game to build entire solar system spanning ones

Orange Boy Is that a reference to Bluestone 42? Great show!

There are many, I wonder how many Rule #2's there are ;)

@@georgeallen3442 None. All the rules of warfare are rule #1

"bettor". Stop mocking the OP's poor pronunciation of English. We all know it's bad but no need to ridicule the man.

@@sunnyjim1355 honestly i am french and i cannot spot his deficiency, even when pointed out

@@AuxenceF try to hear the word " earth " he is pronouncing it like it was " orth " at least that's what gets stuck in my head when he os talking :p

But it could get botter

that moment you're commenting on an argument about a typo

ander azakuna+ E=mc^2-m[0]c^2 and m= (m[0]) / ( squareroot( 1 - ( (v^2) / (c^2) ) ) so E = ( (m[0]) / ( squareroot( 1 - ( (v^2) / (c^2) ) ) ) * c^2 - m[0] * c^2 So E = ( (20kg) / ( squareroot( 1 - ( (0.013^2) / (1^2) ) ) ) * c^2 - 20kg * c^2 = 1.5 * 10^14J = 150 TJ And tnt-tonnes are 4.184 GJ so 150 TJ is 36000 tonnes of tnt or 36 kilotons so it is actually bit more than that. P. S. [ ] are lowercase letters and ^ uppercases and exponents P. P. S. sorry for being messy you can not write clean equations in a comment

invalidusername accuracy!! good man

Hahaha thanks for the correction. I just remember a rough estimate.. its amazing what a piece of steel can do if moving fast enough

I'd assume a capital ship could send out hundreds of these slugs per minute. Not sure how thick the armour needs to be just take damage from just a fraction of that potential 3.6 megaton per minute.

+abz998 Not necessarily, for an example lets say that we have a 250,000 ton ship ie around the mass of 2.5 Gerald R Ford class supercarriers that means that the ship has a mass some 12,500,000 times the mass of the slug thus each slug it fires the recoil will accelerate the ship by 1/12,500,000th the velocity of the slug. 1.3% of light speed is about 3,900 km/s so the delta-V on the ship per slug fired would be equivalent to 0.312 m/s. That equates to an acceleration of 1g for every 31.44 rounds per second of fire rate, at just 314.42 rounds per second the acceleration would be 10g's if that ship has a human crew they could only fire their guns for a minute a most without killing their crew. Granted it would have fired a total of 376 metric tons of ammunition by then though that need not necessarily exhaust the magazine of a 250,000 ton ship it's only 0.15% of the mass of the ship after all.

If you care enough to give your very best...

Love his running rule #1 joke :D

Love his running rule #1 joke :D

Well, if there's one very important thing that you absolutely must remember, it's everything.

Rule #2 of warfare - when in doubt, refer to Rule #1

Its a technical term, like wonkey.

Honestly, all it would take is one crazy Elon Musk style scientist and that could be the scientific term for giant space guns once they do exist. Scientists are certainly a lot better than historians when it comes to naming stuff, at least.

Passiee on the other hand, it may end up with a name like IPC-171A3 "Long Tom" if it's American, and some horribly complicated series of letters and numbers if it's built by the UK.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope

*The thought of giant space guns arouses DONALD JOHN TRUMP*

Yeah we've been growing like a weed, we're technically coming up on the 3rd anniversary next month but I always think of the channel really starting in spring 2016, back when there was maybe 1500 subs tops.

It doesn't seem that long since you hit 100k. You're at 139k already. I'm not at all surprised, you're an excellent science communicator and you pick really interesting thought provoking topics. Me and my friends joke that you upload 'hour and a half' 30 minute videos, because we always end up pausing and sitting in a near catatonic state for ages thinking about and discussing all the possibilities you bring up.

You have seen this I suppose ? www.sciencealert.com/this-new-recipe-for-nuclear-fusion-could-point-the-way-to-more-efficient-power

lolmao500 When I tried your link it didn't work, is this the same story? www.sciencealert.com/a-new-twist-on-fusion-power-could-create-limitless-clean-energy

lolmao500 I've just had a read, and no, it's not. The story I've now found has exactly the same address as the one you gave, so it's weird that it didn't work directly.

Actually that's not a bad first strike, if you want to initiate hostilities, hijack a big cargo ship of ice or something for mars then detonate the thing in orbit, and launch all your missiles just before that so the light arrives at the same time. Screw up their defenses pretty good, cause a big distraction, and probably conceal the launch.

Doug Barlow I

Happy Arthursday !

And a Happy Arthursday to you too Mr. Barlow. May your planet be free of any interplanetary warfare! :)

And a Happy Arthursday to you too Mr. Barlow. May your planet be free of any interplanetary warfare! :)

Good thing Thursday was decided on. Can you imagine what a mouth full it would be if he uploaded on Wednesday? "Happy Arthwednesday!" Goodness, what a nightmare. Though I guess Saturday would've been okay too... Isaaturday?

Drinking games are degenerate, so don't.

@@sunnyjim1355 Are you a troll or something? Edit: Ah, you're just a far right twat; makes sense now.

Do you want us to die

Happy birthday Frank

Hope so, John and I are aiming at about 7000 words for the combined script, 40-45 minutes, but we're still in the first draft.

Such a daunting editing challenge simply touching on What to uplift, squids to help humans collect Manganese nodules as opposed to Honey Badgers for God only knows reasons, can take up a hour in itself. :)

Step 3. You get nothing! Good day sir!

When in doubt, always use Exterminatus.

...but...but..all the innocent civi...*BLAM* HERESY.

Inquisitor Thomas Step 3: Profit!

Exterminatus using a sun powered laser

IGBM

Breaking news North Korea has tested their first IGBM

Anton Exists IGBM

Anton Exists More like Interplanetary

Sounds like the Doomsday Machine from Star Trek the Original Series.

Also, the non-laser weapons all travel on ballistic trajectories, meaning you have to aim them. This can be exhilarating when you pull off an incredible shot or hilarious when someone accidentally shoots their own planet, but it implies a shockingly poor orbital point defense system for planets devoting basically their entire economies to warfare. ...Then again, they're weirdly reluctant to put ANYTHING in space. Mines, power satellites, weapons? Nope, outside the occasional special project that still includes a ground component you can shoot at.

Worbital is kinda the same thing, but its more arcady

So there's Christmas every week? Sounds like a good life.

Quite so; just look at ISIS. But by and large I agree with your original point. These days religions are just as divisive as politics are... but maybe someday we can solve those problems just as science and technology have solved so many others (though admittedly they've created a few too; I think we're all happier with them than we would be without them)

Jason Toddman depends on the fragility of your society. If war is mostly a function of both states throwing disposable income and robots around as long as it is balanced, it might be very common indeed. If brutal conquest is the consequence for losing, but the only consequence for fighting is a tax on people who already make more than enough to provide for themselves, that makes the first rule of war "don't lose."

If the cost to your society is the equivalent of "you can only buy a new cellphone, laptop, and nice car every year instead of every 11 months," and all your cost is coming out of imaginary appetites anyway, I could well see a society putting a lot of its GDP toward weaponry and being more than willing to nuke enemy robots using their own robots at even minor provocations. The Soviet union largely lacked severe poverty for most of its existence, but had little issue chucking away massive amounts of resources on war machines. America has been wealthy since its inception, again with absolute poverty being a rare occurrence, and it spends more on war machines than the rest of the world combined. If your people live under fully-automated luxury communism or a classically liberal automated capitalist juggernaut where the poorest in your society are working 15 hours per week to live a lifestyle equivalent to the upper middle class of today, spending a considerable portion of your expenses on death-less warfare may seem attractive, especially if you think you can get better deals with the threat of actual violent warfare.

Jason Toddman in fact, I would go so far as to say that in the past, abundance has brought a lust to test one's new capabilities of destruction, not an era of peace.

Like, it's a bit of a weird example, but when I've been in Minecraft factions, where luxury confederal communism tends to be the default mode of societal production and distribution, there are a few distinct phases. Usually warfare occurs early on, when a decent lifestyle is hard to earn, and in late-game skirmishing, where idle hands start going into automated warfare without much expense to quality of life, with occasional large-scale successful raids sending someone a few levels of development back. I feel a lot more willing to throw nukes around when they are being auto-assembled by robots from raw ore. Further still, I've discovered that the things necessary for industrial-scale warfare are also necessary for industrial-scale civilization. You do not go hunt a thousand creepers to annihilate the enemy military complex or carve out million-block areas. You build skyscraper-sized mobgrinders that produce more TNT and arrows than you know what to do with. You don't painstakingly hollow out the nether from bedrock to bedrock to limit enemy activities. You again get the industrial base to do such things first, not because you want war, but because that is simply the cheapest way to churn out millions of blocks of raw material for building more stuff. Having no real human cost to starting wars would, one should presume, make doing so more likely, not less. When it's our drones vs. Theirs and nobody starves either way, war is pretty attractive.

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Steve2323ZX *Turns on Mars: Bringer of War by Gustav Holst

I'll be honest, this robot cook (at 5.35 on the video link here) is something I would *really appreciate.* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sZ_-yb-TN9M.html

5) Giant Ninjas 6) Space Robots 7) Giant Space Robot Ninjas with Guns

I feel like your list is backward somehow. How are robot ninjas not more awesome than either robots or ninjas on their own? Is is because robot ninjas are constantly asking for healing?

Sure why not, it's all quite subjective really. I mean " Giant Space Robot Ninjas with Guns" is kinda blowing my mind.

William Barnes A good point, but it depends entirely on the strength of the magnetic field you use. You could build either device to take high acceleration into account.

You certainly can build one to take a high acceleration into account, and shift the field forwards by moving and shaping your magnets. But to dodge and jink you don't just need high acceleration. You need to rapidly change how much acceleration you're applying. The rate of acceleration change is called "jerk", just like the rate of velocity change is called "acceleration". When you see something coming for you, you don't want to slowly burn your engine up to max power, you wanna throw the switch and BOOM go, thrown into the back of your seat. Not eased gently and then pushed back. You need that acceleration now, all of it. That's a jerk when you throw the throttle open like that. How hard you're pushed into the seat is your acceleration, but how hard you're thrown back into it in the first place is the jerk. And it's jerk that you can't maintain a magnetic bottle through, because the bottle only exerts an acceleration on the antimatter, and your spaceship is performing a jerk, and the antimatter has inertia. You'll slam the antimatter through the wall of the bottle just like how slamming on the brakes in your car gives you whiplash. You won't get whiplash if you push the brake pedal down slowly, even if you do end up pushing it down all the way at the end. But slam it down? That's a jerk. And it sends your antimatter out through the front of the windshield.

William Barnes You may be right. It may be impossible. I personally don't have what it takes to crunch the numbers myself. My physics is very sparse and very unused in the last couple decades. My sense though is that you can still overbuild a reactor for just such a purpose, and push it to its operational limit. Without numbers on either side it's hard to make a call. In the end it is way easier and cheaper to send thousands of dumb, dark rocks to hit a spot at the same time, and among them sneak a handful of nukes or antimatter bombs that need not be subjected to any jerk or snap but at the time of impact. Bombs are easier, smaller, and cheaper than any reactor.

Or Children of a Dead Earth.

Planetary annihilation doesn't have orbital defense lasers

Jason Mey Our lord and saviour Arthur usually takes up the first dozen views as well as other editors.

abz998 about six or nine months ago I had my phone in my hand and got the alert. Boom first like! I was pumped

No, they set up another foil to bounce light round the side, or a fusion reactor in orbit.

Kamil Tomaszewski Mars would not be super reliant on the sun. Dust storms alone mean they would have large battery backup and other sources of power. It would also be very easy to blow away a stationary foil in L1.

I love 'em, and thought they were reasonably 'realistic' until that frickin' Isaac Arthur started poking holes in some of their premises. Isaac did mention the books favorably in at least one video that I recall.

Weber's in-house physics are totally made up of course, but he does a great job with it in terms of composing logical strategies and realism. I generally only recommend the first 3 books, Honor starts getting a bit of superman / Mary Sue creep after that, though it doesn't get too unbearable till maybe book 6 and Weber does defocus from her to look more at other characters after that

Aaron Sutich-Ursell dreams of lava

Musk's vehicles are landing on pads on ocean, I think that space program can help "land" small floating areas which will combine to living-space in friendlier environment high above that lava :) Later just add humans if you wish.

Damn! How did I not think to make a joke about that?

can't win 'em all

RawWeirdness He's already done that, my dude.

@Snickering Ginger Depends on how you define intelligence... and on how much their brothers in arms use their heads to protect their duller comrades. Though given the stories my dad tells about the hijinks he and other soldiers got up to in the army, I'd guess that a mildly impaired sense of self-preservation seems to be common among people who sign up for a job where people will shoot at you.

Yeah its a running gag, I explained it back in Space Warfare when I started it, I feel like mentioning it in the nominal sequels would spoil it :)

this episode even had 2 rule 1s right in one episode lol

Isaac Arthur Did you get it from Bluestone 42? Did they get it from you? Or neither?

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I'm not actually sure, but I think I got it from some eye-rolling quip my battalion commander made to a couple of us coming into HQ one morning, about every officer and NCO having some different Rule #1 and several of them multiple ones. If my memory is right, and the Commander does have a quirky sense of humor, I suppose credit goes to Major-General Joe Harrington.

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And moms

Frank Zappa has a piece based on that film. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_pTC8F6i_0I.html You might not like it...