Mass Effect 2: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space

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[TheKrash55]

I personally love how this implies that Chung has been randomly firing into space

[AvoidedGears]

I wish this guy was my physics teacher!

[AINGELPROJECT667]

Of course, there's a 35 thousand year difference between the time period of Halo and the time period of 40k, so tech's bound to be more advanced.

[AINGELPROJECT667]

It was calculated that the vibration alone from the projectile entering the atmosphere would be enough to rend continuents.

[AmarrEmperor]

Additionally, the gunnery officer also has no real clue. 1.3% of lightspeed translates to about 2,387 km/sec of delta-v, which is more than enough to rech galactic escape velocity when firing from earth (about 566.1 km/sec delta-v). So the projectile will happily leave the milky way (the chance of a random encounter with something are tremendously low), and even if it hits something, 99% of the visible matter are concentrated in stars, and space is quite thinly populated.

[AmarrEmperor]

This, Serviceman Chung, means that a full salvo of the Earth defense grid requires roughly 1.26*10^24 joules. For reference, you maggot, the sun is estimated to produce 3.846 × 10^26 joule per second. This means a full salvo of the entire grid needs about 0.5 percent of the energy the sun puts out each second. And yes, serviceman Chung, we do not know how we deal with recoil, so we must assume every shot of a Super MAC violently deorbits the station! You know, ~science~.

[AmarrEmperor]

Also, every single shot will need the energy of 20000 Tsar Bomba's to be fired! This means that mass accelerators are absolutely horrible weapons! Additionally, nobody really knows where we get all that energy from. But considering that the Tsar Bomba back in the nineteenth century had an energy of approx. 2.1*10^17 joules and each shot has 20000 times that energy, it places the energy required from one shot at roughly 4.2*10^21. And we have 300 of this monsters in space!

[Nick Benge]

Exterminatus is such a fun solution to everything.

[Busterdrag]

To be fair though, Halo was not nearly as well thought out in the realism sector as ME is.

And if I remember, Warhammer 40k had weaponry on imperial ships that was as deadly as the mac cannons from Halo.

[Amari Ismyname]

Sod the deathstar, just get a mass acclerator and you could wipe out a planet and reload before they could finish screaming.

[simpsonfan13]

And the Tsar Bomba cracked windows 500 miles away. It produced a seismic wave recorded at 5 on the Richter scale which went around the planet 3 times.

[simpsonfan13]

Or that there is an Asian that doesn't understand Physics. That just doesn't compute.