Kinetic Dampeners

zMessiahz · 2002-12-19, 05:03 PM

So we get these nifty little high tech Kintetic Dampeners that can absorb the energy from a fall.

Well, damnit, if I have a device that can "dampen" kinetic energy then I want it to dampen all the projectiles shot at me! Think about it, a MAX dropping from the sky builds up a LOT more energy then a puny little 9mm bullet travelling at mach 2 or whatever speed they go. So stopping the bullet should be no problem whatsoever for this little device. I also want it to slow down missiles to the point where I can pluck them out of the air and throw them back at people.

And can I turn it to reverse mode to make a Kinetic Enhancer? Turn my pistol into tank bustin bad %^*( little gun?

How about I use it to allow my air craft to come to a complete stop instantaneously? I mean I have one on my body too so I wouldn't suffer from the acceleration. Turn it into reverse mode so I can reach terminal velocity instantly!

Or how about give me a real high tech one that can completely absorb kinetic energy. Then I can hop out of the Galaxy and just float like Yoda.

jerkfunk12 · 2002-12-19, 05:10 PM

That would be pretty helpful if your in a tight spot and want to be completly like Magneto and chunk back at em!

�io · 2002-12-19, 05:31 PM

Originally posted by zMessiahz
So we get these nifty little high tech Kintetic Dampeners that can absorb the energy from a fall.

Well, damnit, if I have a device that can "dampen" kinetic energy then I want it to dampen all the projectiles shot at me! Think about it, a MAX dropping from the sky builds up a LOT more energy then a puny little 9mm bullet travelling at mach 2 or whatever speed they go. So stopping the bullet should be no problem whatsoever for this little device. I also want it to slow down missiles to the point where I can pluck them out of the air and throw them back at people.

And can I turn it to reverse mode to make a Kinetic Enhancer? Turn my pistol into tank bustin bad %^*( little gun?

How about I use it to allow my air craft to come to a complete stop instantaneously? I mean I have one on my body too so I wouldn't suffer from the acceleration. Turn it into reverse mode so I can reach terminal velocity instantly!

Or how about give me a real high tech one that can completely absorb kinetic energy. Then I can hop out of the Galaxy and just float like Yoda.

In the words of our great nazi leader :

Zarparchior · 2002-12-19, 05:31 PM

RP reason:
The KD can only be used for your own mass. It doesn't stop all kinetic energy directed toward you - it "dampens" (if you will) the energy that would destroy/harm ourselves from a fall by halting as much of the kinetic energy from our own mass as possible, not the mass of other objects.

RL reason:
... Can I call you Mr. Dumass from now on if I need to explain the real reason why they would not implement this?

snipe · 2002-12-19, 05:35 PM

when you jump out of a plane, you fall fast like you normaly would, but when you get about 6 feet from the ground, little anti gravity things kick in and slow your fall to a smooth landing. they call those things kintetic dampeners

zMessiahz · 2002-12-19, 05:44 PM

Snipe: there is no anti-gravity there. They lessen kinetic energy.

Carp: We all know the the RL reason lol. So on to the RP reasons... If the dampeners can only be used for your own mass then how does it account for the armor? Which in the case of the MAX is surely many times your own body mass. And in addition to that you are saying that we would have an even higher tech device that can somehow associate itself with a living entity and filter out under a bombardment of kinetic energy which energy is directly related to that living entity. Not only that, but that device would have to also then figure out which of that kinetic energy was harmful and which was just normal motion. Remember a MAX has a run speed that rivals a tanks, so the range of "normal" kinetic energy is quite severe.

snipe · 2002-12-19, 05:46 PM

maybe it repels off the ground

diluted · 2002-12-19, 05:47 PM

this isnt "physicside" >< its arcade style with a tiny twist of sim.

Unregistered · 2002-12-19, 05:51 PM

The dampener is a machine. It is intergrated into all of the diffrent armors,not into your body mass. If it was you'd need a Kenetic Dampener Implant. Were anyone (like the Vanu with their UberHiTech) be stupid enough to install dampeners on their projectile weapons to slow that projectile down sow it can make a soft impact with the target I'm ok with that.

We in the Terran Republic don't really care if our bullet's take damage when they hit something, so long as what their hitting takes damage to. That is why there are no kenetic dampeners on weapons.

BLuE_ZeRO · 2002-12-19, 05:54 PM

I want kinetic dampener bullets

Zarparchior · 2002-12-19, 05:57 PM

a) I'm not a fish (Carp? Come on, at least look over your posts ONCE before posting.

), and b) by your own mass I mean the mass of your body and anything associated with you. The KDs are not intelligent enough to discern organic material form inorganic material. They simply dampen any kinetic energy that is being built up by your own "body" and releasing it safely when your "body" encounters solid matter (i.e. ground).

If you stand on a bathroomm scale while wearing a backpack full of Steven King hardcover books, while you yourself technically do not weigh more or have you added any mass to yourself, but if you were to jump off a 3 foot ledge you feel the extra mass/weight anyway. As I said above, the KD simply releases any harmful kinetic energy caused by your, whether you have extra artifical mass added to yourself or not.

zMessiahz · 2002-12-19, 06:03 PM

My bad Zarp, didn't mean to refer to you as a fish lol

Ok so it only works on your armor and you then. So then it should still beable to dampen any kinetic energy hitting the armor! Like a bullet... also if it is built intot he armor then why not build it into an aircraft? Even if I can't reverse it, insta-stop should would be useful!

Unregistered · 2002-12-19, 06:10 PM

It is built into the Aircraft. If the piolet bails or goes link dead the aircraft will auto stop, and land.

How exactly is the Armor which dampens it's own kenetic energy stop a diffrent object's kenetic energy? It's no wonder the TR steered away from your Alien tech. You people are crazy.

BLuE_ZeRO · 2002-12-19, 06:12 PM

Can pilots get shot out of aircraft? or is the aircraft bulletproof? I'd like to see a sniper just bust a pilots head open while he's flying around.

zMessiahz · 2002-12-19, 06:20 PM

How does it stop other kinetic energy? Simple really... Kinetic energy is of course all the same... the energy of motion. A bullet does damage by transferring its kinetic energy to another mass. No transference of kinetic energy means nothing happens. So a dampener, which for some reason can only dampen its own kinetic energy (as an aside I still say anything that could dampen kinetic energy wouldn't car if it was connected to the object it was dampening by solid state matter or not) , would stop a bullet by dampening all that kinetic energy that was transferred into it.