"A 7 on the narlock scale." Little did the human know at they were also rated at a 3, but since most of the galaxy was petrified by their potential reaction the review team hid their findings and revised it to a 7. Which sadly backfired as the human took the rating as a challenge and are now on the verge of being revised to a 2.
that story of humans defeating aliens with math reminded me of a story russian badger shared. the uss texas was apparently partially flooded so it could be tilted and hit its targets on d-day. as badger said, 'you flood half your ship just to tilt that bitch back so you can drain threes? that's amazing!'
@@groofromtheup5719 We gangsta-leaned a battleship so that it could engage targets further inland, but only after moving it in so close that the boat was only a few feet from scraping the bottom.
I like how in the second story the alien talks in length about how humans weaponized math and then thinks it can beat humans at a game that is weaponized math in game form.
Hol' up ... they think 1km is a safe distance and 500m is a good range to shoot from ... 1. An unnamed Canadian dude has a confirmed kill at over 3.5km 2. There is no safe distance to attack a human from.
I’m sure once they blast our infrastructure we can find a creative use for all those elevator shafts we don’t need. A little concrete reinforcement and plastic explosives can make a small car go a long way.
as weird as it sounds laser based personal weapons really would have a lower effective range than projectile throwers in our atmosphere: short version is that the point it hits the hardest is the spot right in front of the gun. dump enough energy in there to give it any real range of efficacy and it's turning the air in front of the shooter into a bomb, focusing several to a point would help enough to mitigate the problem but since apparently these people are still relying on personnel to aim and fire the things...yeah, no, that's just shooting a beam...speaking of the "a person has to aim this thing" problem: with a laser time held on target is extremely important so again it gets exponentially less effective as the range increases.
The humans managed to get all of their balls into the pockets before we had even managed to get one. How are you supposed to get the balls where you want them to go if you can't line up you shot first?
Another factor is that is a handheld energy weapon that's firing in atmo. Handheld have to have a limit on energy storage and output. Go too high on output and it'll be a one shot wonder due to melting important parts to slag if not outright explode, too low a focus or output and it'll have zero effective range, but ballistics? Sure atmosphere does slow them down and pushes them off target but the impact of friction and wind are arguably less important than fine muscle control given a human brain with practice shooting is in control of said ballistic weapon.
The kind that can be carried by 1 xeno in combat. Don't matter how nice a hole it makes, if you can't deploy it. Even humans have this issue. And figured out how to get around it... Several times.. Bur still...
They are rather terrifying. Especially if you understand how blast wave phenomena works. Imagine a flash bang in a hallway. The blast wave expands hits the wall and comes back to have the waves slam into each other. This is also what causes a mushroom cloud to form. When the edge of the waves collide they can’t go down into the ground, so it goes up sucking in the dirt and air and throwing it upwards. So flash bangs in a confined area are really nasty.
6:07 Only 1km from the human lines? Prime range for snipers. Effectively every First World War .30cal full-power cartridge (what are now common hunting cartridges) when shot using it's corresponding (manual) bolt-action rifle (now common hunting rifles) can reliably reach 1 km, still be accurate (with adequate training), and lethal. As a standard, most had Iron sights that went out to 1 km, some has Iron sights that ranged further out to an astonishing 2km.
yheee...cant help to agree with the alien here... when people you normaly have to run after screaming '' no no no! dont nuke!..or that...NHOOO! NOT THAT!''..... starts to make you WISH they where nuking things with wanton abandon agen... something... is sketchy XD
Humans weaponized math; this is why in the Civilizations game, you can create catapults after developing mathematics. I always founded my first city on a river for the extra boost in money/knowledge, and preferably my second one as well. Then have a revolution, and go to monarchy as soon as possible. Way better than dictatorship.
