Why they never built an AT-field gun ?

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Postby Azathoth » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:10 pm

Mr. Tines wrote:Is it just me, or is anyone else getting District 9 vibes from this topic?


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Postby schismatics » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:49 pm

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Postby AuraTwilight » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:55 pm

Allemann wrote:
AuraTwilight wrote:Oh, right, sure, let's just HAND OUT components for Third Impact to the Angels. Great idea thar.


Then Rei it is, same principle applicable.


That's even WORSE. More dangerous to give to the Angels, and less effective at killing them.

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Postby Taekmkm » Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:28 am

I don't know why they don't just use nuclear energy to power their weapons. Same punch, more portable.
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Postby Layla » Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:20 am

AuraTwilight wrote:Because it's not really physically possible.


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Postby AuraTwilight » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:07 am

Taekmkm wrote:I don't know why they don't just use nuclear energy to power their weapons. Same punch, more portable.


Which is not only a bureaucratic legal clusterfuck, but is also absolutely useless against superbeings who can just deny reality at a subatomic level, killing fucking everyone in Tokyo 3 through the fallout while doing nothing to the Angel. Good show.

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Postby Ironfoot » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:58 am

You could probably find a way to partially invert an AT Field on itself so that it forms a blade or a type of offensive weapon, but it's impossible to use an AT Field in a cannon. I know the sauce is good, but you gotta lay off dude.

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Postby master_lloyd » Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:01 am

Taekmkm wrote:I don't know why they don't just use nuclear energy to power their weapons.


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Postby Taekmkm » Sat Dec 12, 2009 1:21 am

That's why I said weapon. A good ole Beam bazooka is good enough for most of the Angels. [/i]
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Postby AVman9 » Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:04 am

Taekmkm wrote:That's why I said weapon. A good ole Beam bazooka is good enough for most of the Angels.

Arael called. He would like to chat with you. Besides, most won't cut it in the end, considering just one angel could eliminate an entire city in less than 24 hours.

In all honesty, I cannot see any way an AT field penetrating gun could ever be feasible. AT fields are almost a complete mystery to the scientists (even with the years of research). They don't know what they are made of, so they couldn't possibly know what would be needed to penetrate one.
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Postby AuraTwilight » Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:20 am

Taekmkm wrote:That's why I said weapon. A good ole Beam bazooka is good enough for most of the Angels. [/i]


No it wouldn't; and Operation Yashima was so fucking inefficient, risky, and ultimately irresponsible that if you're seriously suggesting they try and use it on every Angel, you're several different kinds of daft.

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Postby AVman9 » Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:19 am

AuraTwilight wrote:
Taekmkm wrote:That's why I said weapon. A good ole Beam bazooka is good enough for most of the Angels. [/i]


No it wouldn't; and Operation Yashima was so fucking inefficient, risky, and ultimately irresponsible that if you're seriously suggesting they try and use it on every Angel, you're several different kinds of daft.
Although they did use the positron cannon again against Arael, I think. Granted it didn't work.
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Postby AuraTwilight » Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:43 pm

Yea, and it was sitting stationary in orbit, not doing anything. The Positron Cannon only works if the Angel is nice enough to sit still for many, many hours.

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Postby toe mash » Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:50 pm

AuraTwilight wrote:Yea, and it was sitting stationary in orbit, not doing anything. The Positron Cannon only works if the Angel is nice enough to sit still for many, many hours.


Just had to point out that like at least half of the angels were conveniently stationary at one point or another :pwnd:

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Postby AuraTwilight » Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:26 pm

Yea, but not for 12+ fucking hours.

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Postby Sun Stealer » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:24 pm

It's not cost-effective: it would take the same time and resources, and a missile can only be used once whereas an eva can be used multiple times.

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Postby Kamina » Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:20 am

Im assuming that you guys are talking about the original series, within that timeliness context you would have to basically take a test body and put it into a casing and make it a giant at field sword or blade by inverting a at field onto itself but the length would never be long enough to be on the level of a gun. This isnt really worth the trouble.

You would be far better off finding a controlled way to manage anti-at fields in weaponized form to and make the angels at fields disappear, then their kinda out of luck since tanks and artillery suddenly work and that's if they don't get tanged. Since AT fields are impossible to explain in math that's mean this is nearly impossible since man relies on the flawed concept of mathematics far to much.

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In the context of rebuild it would seemingly be possible for eva in certain circumstances to use a AT Cannon per say. Unit one turned its energy arm into a death cannon to majorly hurt Zeruel, but so far eva have only been able to do this when they are triggering third impact so only the spawn of adam could do this if the same rules from the series applies.

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Postby AuraTwilight » Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:54 am

Since AT fields are impossible to explain in math that's mean this is nearly impossible since man relies on the flawed concept of mathematics far to much.


Wrong.

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Postby AVman9 » Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:14 am

Kamina wrote:man relies on the flawed concept of mathematics far to much.
Um......what?

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Postby Kamina » Thu Dec 31, 2009 6:00 pm

Me and math don't get along to well sorry lol, largely because i struggle with it and if you think about it a lot of formulas are ultimately incorrect but are the closest thing to finding a pattern of truth in reality that we can.

Im pretty sure that Anti AT fields were clearly stated and show in the End of Evangelion to be impossible to analyze with mathematics, they even showed a computer going insane as it tried to analyze it.


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