"What do you use as weapons?" "Well, we throw rocks. But like, _really fast."_ "That's stupid, that can't be effective." "... ... Like, _really really fast."_
that round was Bubba´d to insane levels, i still get goosebumps watching that video especially when the rounds leading up to it leave a huge muzzle flash and are way louder
For those that are curious: The USS Indianapolis was a WWII battleship that was given the secret mission of delivering some uranium-235 for the atomic bombs. She was ambushed and destroyed by a Japanese submarine that just happened to find them. Luckily for them this was after they had delivered the payload, but because they werent supposed to be out there in the first place no one in the fleet knee where they were. It was a miracle that a US fighter pilot spotted the survivors. Only about 100 of the crew survived the 2-day wait.
"because they werent supposed to be out there in the first place no one in the fleet knee where they were" Nope. The ship's exact position was not known and she was not known to be missing until she was overdue. The ship was maintaining radio silence due to the secrecy of the mission. Most of the sailors were lost due to exposure (hypothermia) and dehydration.
"Luckily for them this was after they had delivered the payload" It really was. Because of Little Boy's design, if it had been flooded with seawater, it could have acted as a moderator causing a criticality event. It wouldn't have been a nuclear detonation, more like the incidents with the so called "Demon Core", but with no way to stop it.
I’m a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, so I’m used to setting aside reality for the sake of the story…but my brain is breaking from the idea that a space faring alien species could be incapable of even imagining that bullets can travel at supersonic speeds. 🤯
@@seivernoname-tz9uh : We may not know exactly what the recipe for Greek fire was, but I have one word for you: napalm. Conceptually we don’t have a problem understanding things from the past. It’s just that the specifics of how they were accomplished are sometimes lost to us. In order for this analogy to be apt, it would be as though we couldn’t grasp the concept that a burning liquid could be shot out of a hose a hundred feet. That would be just as silly as not understanding that bullets can fly fast.
Yeah, simple concept really: move something fast enough to have sufficient kinetic energy to pierce the intended target. There is zero reason an intelligent species capable of FTL (haha) would fail to understand this simple concept. There is zero reason an intelligent species would doubt that an object could be propelled to such high speeds; they have FTL travel after all, right? I strongly doubt any space-faring species would have skipped the developmental step of moving vehicles through space at high speed to escape gravity wells. Orbital velocity for the earth is far, FAR in excess of the speed of a bullet fired from a handgun. The speed of Earth in its orbit about the sun is even greater still. Propelling a tiny object to speeds in excess that of sound through earth's atmosphere is trivial. Speaking of the speed of sound: this speed varies depending on the medium through which the pressure waves travel. The author of this story didn't take this into consideration. Speaking of weaponry on spacecraft: if your massive craft is oriented such that your primary armament can't be brought to bear against an attacker, just send out a few puffs from your main thruster; the output of an interstellar ship's main drive will DWARF anything a stupid rifle or Phalanx-style point defense weapon might emit. Also note that, in the absence of atmosphere, projectile-based kinematic "point defense" systems would have INCREDIBLE range. Evasion at very long distance would be easy; close in, however... well... in space, there's no medium through which a craft can easily redirect momentum, which means maneuverability is likely to be very limited, so that hail storm of DU is going to riddle a landing craft like a tin can in rather quick order. SMH.
@@warpedweirdo Agree, the concepts here are as if FTL was discovered tomorrow and the aliens never had solid rocket boosters in their pre-FTL days (People, If I have to explain that relationship of SRB to Projectile Guns you wont get it anyway I am sure the person I am responding to GETS IT COMPLETELY) I have found the Sci-fi stories that have human's using "projectile weapons" for niche things (like grapeshot to penetrate shields due to the lower velocity) and then follow up with futuristic weapons much easier to keep the "reality of the moment" set aside
Think of halo. The aliens were given plasma weapons before they stopped using swords and bows. So naturally they would only have bows to compare kinetic weapons to.
The only problem with this story is the idea that a species that could figure out how to launch ships from planetside and accelerate them efficiently enough and at the speeds required to even reach another star system, even from a planet with half of earth's gravity, couldn't figure out how to make kinetic projectiles that move faster than the speed of sound. That one detail just doesn't make sense. I can understand the idea of kinetic weapons having long since become obsolete for them, but never having figured them out doesn't seem right to me. Like, just to get to space in the first place they'd have to have an understanding of the physics behind ballistic weaponry.
What if.... Their attempts at kinetic weapons used plastics or ceramics because metal was rare on their planet, forcing the use of polymers? This would have limited how much of an explosion could be used so their projectiles never reached enough velocity to be lethal. And instead of thrust, engines were designed for gravity manipulation or spatial displacement? If battery technology was developed heavily first, the species may not have ever invented the internal combustion engine. It's an amazingly complex piece of engineering in its own right that can be made 100% mechanically that runs on what was once considered a waste product.
IF using our industrial revolution as an example I agree there are gaps but our path via the industrial revolution thru to vehicles, weaponry all the way to space travel is very specific to raw materials available on earth, scientific discovery and other impacts like our gravity that shape our choices etc. Other species may be older, have less or more raw materials, have a different evolutionary path, gravity considerations. Exciting to think of the possibilities that are only limited by our ability to imagine.
It's definitely contrived for the HFY element, but there's a lot of reasons you could think up for a species to completely avoid certain technological paths we followed or figure out how to advance paths we reached a dead end in. Earth is quite unique in having both fossil fuels and an atmosphere that supports the steady chemical reaction of fire. A civilization working without those will be biased against advancing in the direction of derivative technologies like controlled combustion and metal smelting. In the opposite direction, it's hard to imagine technologies we might be skipping over because we have no real world references for completely alternate tech trees, but if you assume the more fanciful tech used in the story (FTL travel, gravity manipulation, etc.) is actually possible and something we could achieve in the next couple centuries, a species bypassing chemical propulsion entirely becomes more believable. The story hints at this by mentioning that ships having a front end (and thus an exhaust end) is strange, and that planets with 1G are on the extreme end for space-faring species, so less violent technologies for ascending out of gravity wells would be more viable.
It's easy to think our solutions to weapons design are obvious, but that's not the case at all. Gunpowder existed for hundreds of years, used in fireworks and rockets, before someone had the idea of packing into a barrel and using it to propel a projectile out of said barrel rather than use the gunpowder as fuel in a rocket. I'm sure the first time someone tried to sell a cannon that there were a lot of people who said it could never work. Obviously the only way to use gunpowder is in a rocket. Blowing it up behind the rocket was clearly a waste and would achieve nothing. The fact we have literally millenia of hindsight makes certain things seem obvious to us, but its just not the case. Every time a new simple invention or product comes along, like a pet rock or a Ring doorbell, someone will always say "That was so easy I could have done that!" But heres the catch- you didn't. It seems obvious in hindsight because it's simple and someone else already did it. Its easy to look at a finished puzzle and see the big picture when you aren't the one that had to put it together.
The aliens live on a lower gravity world that, from the descriptions, never aparently devoloped high explosives. That is why projectile weapons made no sense, nor did thrown grinades. Human devolopment, adn warfair would have gone very differenty today if we never devoloped gunpowder, or it happened much later. Alfred Nobel was so horrified at the carnage the dynamite and other explosives he invented did that he left the foundation that hands out the Nobel Peace Prizes.
@@Realitygetreal concepts and people are two very different things. And I would add to the saying : "If it's stupid but it works -repeatedly and reliable-, it isn't stupid." say like an AK47.
and dude this is like an AI story or somevthing. idk if ur comment has taken that into account but if aything at all seems right in this story it has come from an artificial source which doesnt understand what makes a good story in the real world. thats why everyrthing is weird
Behold humanity by Ralts Bloodthorne has a lot of aliens mocking kinetic weapons... then they get hit by one that's the size of a truck going the speed of light
One HFY classic has multiple kinds of FTL, including hyperspace teleportation to FTL comms beacons. One of the uses of a miniaturized beacon is as a breaching charge. On-mission, each beacon is keyed to the Naval shipyards at Norfolk. The beacon basically has the classic claymore "This Side Towards Enemy" logo, but instead of exploding, it opens a wormhole to the barrel of a large artillery canon microseconds after it was remotely fired. I _think_ the plan was to use explosive rounds until such time as hypervelocity railguns can be completed and tied into the system.
@@bearnaff9387 behold humanity has every time of gun and travel as well. they have bullets that have ftl engines built into them(C+ rounds), they have bullets that phase out of this reality just long enough to bypass enemy shields and armor and detonate inside the core of the ship. they have slipstream, warp gates, wormhole travel, rewind drives, ftl, hyperspace bands (like 100 different levels of that, some of which are deadly to certain species), there is deadspace, hellspace, red space, mat trans, and others i cant remember right now... its the best story I have ever read. you just have to get passed the goofy first chapter and the very odd way he starts the story. its like a collection of interesting stories that begins to becomes something amazing
Such a good series. I have literally shown it to all my friends...what cracked me up is how each of us had favorite parts based on our respective fandoms. Me with the mechs and bolo tanks, them with the horror, Star Trek, Star Wars...etc!!!
@@shawnadams1460 i loved everything about it. the fact that its a divine inspiration from god, delivered by lightning, through the prophet Ralts Bloodthorne, is beside the point im buying every book as they come out even though Ive read it twice over already.
@@oldnotweak Totally fine with sci-fi having weird bits in it. Deathworlders is a great series and the fact that the transhuman space marines are all these gung-ho meta-alpha guys who tend to flop over each other when watch TV like a pile of puppies can't really take away from that. Hell, I can read Heinlein being Heinlein and only have to shake my head ruefully and smirk at the book. Sci-fi is full of things that would probably have been better not committed to verse.
Well, 'secrecy'. 'Russian' font labels on first tanks during transportation (used by combining and reversing engish one) was actually pretty readable and only a bit off.
@@chyronrus here I was laughing at China and its “Tanks did nothing wrong” attitude and you drop some nifty info. Thanks mate I might look that up sounds interesting
The Navy will periodically reassign names, that said I would MUCH rather meet the US military aboard a ship named USS Indianapolis, rather than aboard one named USS Wisconsin.
Or USS New Jersey, Missouri, Texas, any of the old battlewagons. I damn well would not want to meet one on the IJN Yamato, IJN Musashi, KMS Bismarck, KMS Tirpitz. If I did and knew something of their history, I would run.
... and the "rods from God" (Kinetic weapon of tungsten dropped from space becomes supersonic and has the energy to destroy entire cities. If I'm not mistaken, they can be more powerful than nukes, especially if you drop several of them in a wider area (to not overlap) and/or if they're very large. (If I'm not mistaken they're so massive that each one has to be launched into space individually to be installed into the satellite weapons platform).
@@deucedeuce1572meh not so much they have about the power of a moab enough to take out a block or so not nearly enough for a city the energy is just to focused and a larger one is less efficient than standard explosives the only advantage they have is rapid deploy time in out of the way locations
@@bryantaylor948 Rods From God are poor mans orbital strikes if you already have rail guns you can just use the same tungsten rods as ammo you would just need a ferrous Sabot to accelerate it
@@bryantaylor948 ...so they spend Billions of dollars to launch each weapons into orbit... just to be able to take out the area of about a city block? I do wonder what would happen if it hit a skyscraper though (straight down from the top). Would it become more destructive like a nuke when exploded above ground or would it become less powerful, because the building would cushion the blow? (I think it would less powerful). Also... a city is made up of nothing more than "city blocks" is it not? So several/many of these could or would take out a city at the very least.
The grenades part reminds me of an other HFY story, where the idea of grenades were the most strange idea to all the aliends, because they were bad at throwing stuff.
Read John Scalzi's "Year Zero". The universe is full of races that are better than humans at everything, until they hear human music. Aliens are so bad at music that when they heard human music they were so overwhelmed that large populations died in ecstasy of brain hemorrhages. That was just from the Welcome Back Kotter tv show theme music.
I've seen it all too often, people that have never served or perhaps never saw combat try to write detailed combat and it's just off, sometimes I swear some of them don't even know anything about firearms 🤦😮💨 And dear God I can't stand reading attempts at writing modern close air support and air strikes. I was an Airforce JTAC so those stories make me want to bonk my head on my desk repeatedly 😂
that's what infuriated me the most, even an extraterastial whould know about armored vehicles, and not act like it's the newest big thing. . .@@KiithNaabal
Yeah... From arming everyone onboard a ship all the time, to the space-fairing alien having little/no familiarity with high speed kinetic systems and propellants, to armored fighting vehicles being unfamiliar - it was all weird. I mean, I have read a story where that was OK - but anti-grav and FTL were sister developments like magnets and electricity. In fact, they were easier to master, but went down a development pathway that all-but precluded electromagnetism as a field of study. Electromagnetism apparently did a good job of leading us away from FTL anyway. Either way, most species inclined to go exploring and exploiting were reasonably capable at roughly the tech-level of the late 15th century in Europe. The median tech-level of the galaxy is, by our standards, pre Age-of-Sail. As one would expect, exposing sailors with unrifled muskets who expected that any species not in space was early iron age to a small National Guard force was horrifyingly educational. For them.
You see Oz, we started dominating the planet by throwing spears, and now we throw thousands of smaller spears hundreds of times a minute. It really does solve every problem. Every. Single. Problem.
If you have lasers, and space travel, supersonic bullets should be a trivial technology. A species capable of using plasma technology and faster than light should have no trouble at all understanding projectiles and supersonic projectiles. Aside from these details, a good story.
You assume too much. What if humans had never needed to build fires? Do you really think they would have ever invented projectile weapons? Different planet, different evolutionary path.
One of best and funniest stories I´ve heard so far and you picked just the most fitting voice to deliver. Well done and thank you. I enjoyed it very much.
Is it text to speech? Thought I heard a "stumble" in the read back, so there might be an actual reader there. I'd like to know for sure since I too don't want to support bot channels.
@@Logajam.- There have been amazing advances in text to speech engines. You have to listen carefully for words like lives pronounced Liv’s. 😊 Edit: The AI pronounced VIP as vip not V.I.P. An an unship instead of U.N. Ship. 🤓
Yeah I'm tired of the AI. I would love for more channels to cover this but I won't support AI channels unless they are reading their own original content. For now I'm sticking with Net Narrator and Agro.
Heads-up to any prospective gun enthusiasts: The author is incorrect in his comparison of the recoil of an assault rifle and a handgun. Technically, the rifle does produce more recoil, but because it is fired with the stock firmly in the pocket of the shoulder, that force is distributed evenly throughout the upper torso. The recoil you feel is minimal. A handgun usually has no such point of contact, so most of the recoil is absorbed by your arms first and it feels like more force than a rifle. Between the physics, operation of the weapon, and ease of aiming, rifles chambered in intermediate calibers are almost always easier to learn than handguns, and thus are more appropriate for novice shooters.
@@1337penguinman Not quite; the M2 Browning was developed in the interwar years. It's even more crazy that we still use a late 1890s cartridge as the standard handgun cartridge for most of the world
Modern human firearms do /not/ use gunpowder. We haven't used that, other than for hobbyist firearms, in well over a hundred years. We transitioned from Gunpowder to Cordite back in the late 19th century, and then to Nitrocellulose in the Early 20th century; much more power, smoother burn rate, way less smoke, and less barrel fouling. A firearm aficionado could explain in greater detail, but I think I have the basics correct.
Smokeless powder is still called gunpowder by anyone who actually buys it and reloads ammo, such as myself. Stop with the semantics. Powder makes guns go boom. Hence gunpowder.
Its actually make sense. Imagine you are so advanced and have all of those Mathematical in your Brain. You will forget anything that dont belong to that. Maybe that's just Human perspective of thinking, but no organism cannot remember 1000 of Years. But if Alien Race doesn't have Resources to make similar effects like Gun Powder, Kinetic Weapons is indeed unknown for them.
"Kinetics were obsolete hundreds of years before my species became space-faring" So, your species spent more time developing weapons than FTL? Interesting..
Correction: The bullet is what is propelled towards the target. The cartridge is what holds the primer, so the hammer strikes the primer, which is embedded in the back of the cartridge. The distinction is important. Nobody who is a weapons specialist would make that mistake. Cartridges for snipers in the US military are loaded by the military to their standards. To confuse a cartridge for a bullet would be considered a newbie mistake.
Many are talking here about kinetic vs energy weapons, and nobody remembers that this alien has like 3 pairs of manipulators. 2 limbs for heavy lifting and 4 limbs for coordinated accuracy. Also, it seems that the "heavy hands" are unable to throw things with accuracy or speed and the smaller arms just aren't strong enough. So, kinetic ranged weapons were never "the thing" for them after catapult went obsolete and I am curious how Ozis would react just to simple arrow and bow.
This was an excellent story, interesting and well told. But it was very disappoint that the story ended right as the action began, and there is no indication of a part two. Unfinished stories are very frustrating and I wish sites would either stop posting them, or list them as "unfinished".
The benifits of lasers is if you can collect the energy. You can charge your laser weapon pretty much anywhere, power is generated and collected, but its going to take a ton of it to get any form of penetration. Plasma would be similar a lot similar to that, but the extra mass would make it more efficient then a laser. But kinetics while adding a whole another set of logistics to the equation would always be a lot more efficient when it comes to destructive potential. This is why I can see a space faring civilization switching to plasma, but this also why I see whole idea of alien invasion to be stupid, and why the dark forest theory written by that Chinese author would make more sense even if the book itself was more science fantasy then science fiction. It would litterally be activity only ever done by a civilization looking to assimilate other species into their belief system or something done out of hedonistic purposes. Something that a civilization that has access to the infinite resources of space would have a hard time convincing itself to do. So destruction in the interest of security would be the only real logical outcome. Look at how quick our leaders are to try warp the public into thinking putting suicide drones in the hands of cops is a good idea.
Gunpowder does not explode. It burns at a fast rate. Again, the distinction is important as there are difference burn rates for different powders. Each has its purpose. For example, slower burning powders are used in rifle cartridges, while handgun cartridges are loaded with quicker burning powder to ensure a full burn in a shorter barrel.
Evidently the writer(s) never read the scif i storys of Robert Heinlein, Zelazney, Sir Isaac Asimov or their like. These writers gave excellent furturistic views fo Interstellar space voyages, and outser space views of future life. It all made sense. This story line is soo archaic it is beyond belief! If we have intestellar spsce drive then we would also have photonic space laser guns. Showing a tank is backwards engineering we would have progressed into the more secretive military ideals that have not yet been shown. This discourse gets a C- from an avid sci fi reader from the 50s.
Maybe, maybe not. Look at what Sci Fi writers in the 30s and 40s were absolutely sure would be commonplace today. Pretty much none of it is. But a lot of other stuff they never even considered, is. All that to say that what we have seen with weapons technology that has actually been deployed is that it is kinetic and very deadly. Sure, you can say, "but in the future when we have plasma this and photon that", but we have no idea if or when that might be, if ever. Kinetics have served man well for thousands of years. I would imagine we would likely stick with variants of that up until the point where we get our asses handed to us by someone or thing using non kinetic weapons. We'd assess, regroup, research and implement our own versions of that into our arsenal. It is the way humans have aways done it, and we are creatures of habit. For better or worse.
Our fire arms have fewer circuts and dont need batteries. Military weapons are about simplicity and reliability. We need to advance further in battery and capaciter tech to have laser rifles than we do to build a ship with a ftl drive train. Not only will we need super conductors but super insulators so the weapons dont shock the end user. Also, bullets are simply highly refined rocks. Humans started ranged combat by throwing rocks. We are just keeping the tradition going.
The idea that current weapons are still in use in the future is fascinating even if they have nee upgraded for more improved uses. the fact that kinetic weapons may have shorter range but more accurate than energy more powerful ones that are less accurate seems contrasting. The reason why energy-based weapons are only being tested now is because we lack the amount of energy needed to make then accurate or long range. the best part seen humans in combat, and revelations of deception on his part by his superiors.
explosion definition: A release of mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy in a sudden and often violent manner with the generation of high temperature and usually with the release of gases. Gunpowder explodes.
hmm... I find it implausible that an alien species with FTL capability would be almost completely ignorant of Newtonian physics. A weapons specialist that does not understand F=MA?? I'm out.
I think author missed the part that these weapon rules of UN only concern either use against troops or against populated areas. Ship to ship combat, anti-material use is fine. Also less accuracy is actually also an advantage, because it compensates bad aim. Or fast-moving shooter.
with plasma being over 6000 degrees it not penetrating hardly seems like a problem. Something like a tiny sun would not need to be inside you to be bad
The AI generated pictures depicting things that run directly opposite to what the AI voice is saying is hilarious. This is what happens when entire stories are made by AI.
Minor correction: Americans wouldn't refer to the machine gun calibre (11:35) as 12.7mm. They'd call it a "Fifty calibre." For a 0.50 BMG, that is. The 12.7mm designation more commonly refers to Soviet/ Russian weapon calibres. While they're both the same calibre (ie- 0.50 calibre means it has a calibre of 0.5 of an inch, where an inch is ~ 25.4mm. So half an inch = 12.7mm), the rounds are not interchangeable (different case sizes and geometries, as well as different pressures/ amounts of powder in either bullet). Still... Unless the author of the story were to read this, the comment is nearly pointless. Its only value being that I enjoy writing and it's possible it might help inform some other writer.
Stargate SG-1 series. Highly advance race decides to use human logic to help them defeat an equally advance type of Machine that only consumes to make more of its kind to replicate and consume.
The most blaring mistake the AI reader made was pronouncing "millimeter" "M" "M" AI is quickly becoming hated for the laziness it allows humans to have . And I hated this once I figured out that's what it was. 👎
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This is a terribly gullible view of alien thoughts on defense and offense.
Was this written by some hippie that never left safety?
So you believe that on many planets many species would evolve but defense from predators is some novel complex? You suck at this.
This is the dumbest alien I’ve ever heard.
@@sketchtherapy1218 I mean, maybe. But it also seems to be written from the point of view of a somewhat ignorant alien, so it makes sense either way.
"What do you use as weapons?"
"Well, we throw rocks. But like, _really fast."_
"That's stupid, that can't be effective."
"... ... Like, _really really fast."_
Well humans started out throwing rocks and are still throwing stuff just something bigger.
That's the equivalent of the _"alright, just hear me out"_ guy.
Like _"really really fast"_
@@linkbond08When you throw rock at a percentage of C, it doesn't matter its just a rock.
Anything is a weapon with enough velocity!
That's really been our strategy from the getgo. Humans be good at throwing stuff... Like really really good.
"Relatively harmless to the user"... Kentucky Ballistics has entered the chat.
Somewhere out there is a species with 7 thumbs on each hand due to a very long period of evolution that involved firearms.
lol... I see what you did there....
They did say "relatively".
that round was Bubba´d to insane levels, i still get goosebumps watching that video
especially when the rounds leading up to it leave a huge muzzle flash and are way louder
"If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid"
Maxim 42: "They'll never expect this" means "I want to try something stupid"
Maxim 43: If its stupid but it works, its still stupid and you are lucky.
"What works isn't stupid, at worst it's inefficient."
Cum
Ozis: "What do we do if they reach this room?"
Human: "You're gonna get to see what that Abrahms can do."
For those that are curious: The USS Indianapolis was a WWII battleship that was given the secret mission of delivering some uranium-235 for the atomic bombs. She was ambushed and destroyed by a Japanese submarine that just happened to find them.
Luckily for them this was after they had delivered the payload, but because they werent supposed to be out there in the first place no one in the fleet knee where they were. It was a miracle that a US fighter pilot spotted the survivors. Only about 100 of the crew survived the 2-day wait.
The Indianapolis was a Heavy Cruiser, crew of about 1200 if I recall. Torpedoed by the sub, she sank with minimal loss of life. Then the sharks came.
A WWII battleship will be named after a state.
"because they werent supposed to be out there in the first place no one in the fleet knee where they were"
Nope. The ship's exact position was not known and she was not known to be missing until she was overdue. The ship was maintaining radio silence due to the secrecy of the mission. Most of the sailors were lost due to exposure (hypothermia) and dehydration.
Ever looked into a sharks eyes?
"Luckily for them this was after they had delivered the payload"
It really was. Because of Little Boy's design, if it had been flooded with seawater, it could have acted as a moderator causing a criticality event. It wouldn't have been a nuclear detonation, more like the incidents with the so called "Demon Core", but with no way to stop it.
I’m a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, so I’m used to setting aside reality for the sake of the story…but my brain is breaking from the idea that a space faring alien species could be incapable of even imagining that bullets can travel at supersonic speeds. 🤯
Maybe bullets are their greek fire, something they stopped using so far in the past that no one remembers how it works
@@seivernoname-tz9uh : We may not know exactly what the recipe for Greek fire was, but I have one word for you: napalm. Conceptually we don’t have a problem understanding things from the past. It’s just that the specifics of how they were accomplished are sometimes lost to us. In order for this analogy to be apt, it would be as though we couldn’t grasp the concept that a burning liquid could be shot out of a hose a hundred feet. That would be just as silly as not understanding that bullets can fly fast.
Yeah, simple concept really: move something fast enough to have sufficient kinetic energy to pierce the intended target. There is zero reason an intelligent species capable of FTL (haha) would fail to understand this simple concept. There is zero reason an intelligent species would doubt that an object could be propelled to such high speeds; they have FTL travel after all, right? I strongly doubt any space-faring species would have skipped the developmental step of moving vehicles through space at high speed to escape gravity wells. Orbital velocity for the earth is far, FAR in excess of the speed of a bullet fired from a handgun. The speed of Earth in its orbit about the sun is even greater still. Propelling a tiny object to speeds in excess that of sound through earth's atmosphere is trivial.
Speaking of the speed of sound: this speed varies depending on the medium through which the pressure waves travel. The author of this story didn't take this into consideration.
Speaking of weaponry on spacecraft: if your massive craft is oriented such that your primary armament can't be brought to bear against an attacker, just send out a few puffs from your main thruster; the output of an interstellar ship's main drive will DWARF anything a stupid rifle or Phalanx-style point defense weapon might emit. Also note that, in the absence of atmosphere, projectile-based kinematic "point defense" systems would have INCREDIBLE range. Evasion at very long distance would be easy; close in, however... well... in space, there's no medium through which a craft can easily redirect momentum, which means maneuverability is likely to be very limited, so that hail storm of DU is going to riddle a landing craft like a tin can in rather quick order.
SMH.
@@warpedweirdo Agree, the concepts here are as if FTL was discovered tomorrow and the aliens never had solid rocket boosters in their pre-FTL days (People, If I have to explain that relationship of SRB to Projectile Guns you wont get it anyway I am sure the person I am responding to GETS IT COMPLETELY)
I have found the Sci-fi stories that have human's using "projectile weapons" for niche things (like grapeshot to penetrate shields due to the lower velocity) and then follow up with futuristic weapons much easier to keep the "reality of the moment" set aside
Think of halo. The aliens were given plasma weapons before they stopped using swords and bows. So naturally they would only have bows to compare kinetic weapons to.
The only problem with this story is the idea that a species that could figure out how to launch ships from planetside and accelerate them efficiently enough and at the speeds required to even reach another star system, even from a planet with half of earth's gravity, couldn't figure out how to make kinetic projectiles that move faster than the speed of sound. That one detail just doesn't make sense. I can understand the idea of kinetic weapons having long since become obsolete for them, but never having figured them out doesn't seem right to me. Like, just to get to space in the first place they'd have to have an understanding of the physics behind ballistic weaponry.
What if....
Their attempts at kinetic weapons used plastics or ceramics because metal was rare on their planet, forcing the use of polymers? This would have limited how much of an explosion could be used so their projectiles never reached enough velocity to be lethal.
And instead of thrust, engines were designed for gravity manipulation or spatial displacement?
If battery technology was developed heavily first, the species may not have ever invented the internal combustion engine. It's an amazingly complex piece of engineering in its own right that can be made 100% mechanically that runs on what was once considered a waste product.
IF using our industrial revolution as an example I agree there are gaps but our path via the industrial revolution thru to vehicles, weaponry all the way to space travel is very specific to raw materials available on earth, scientific discovery and other impacts like our gravity that shape our choices etc.
Other species may be older, have less or more raw materials, have a different evolutionary path, gravity considerations. Exciting to think of the possibilities that are only limited by our ability to imagine.
It's definitely contrived for the HFY element, but there's a lot of reasons you could think up for a species to completely avoid certain technological paths we followed or figure out how to advance paths we reached a dead end in. Earth is quite unique in having both fossil fuels and an atmosphere that supports the steady chemical reaction of fire. A civilization working without those will be biased against advancing in the direction of derivative technologies like controlled combustion and metal smelting.
In the opposite direction, it's hard to imagine technologies we might be skipping over because we have no real world references for completely alternate tech trees, but if you assume the more fanciful tech used in the story (FTL travel, gravity manipulation, etc.) is actually possible and something we could achieve in the next couple centuries, a species bypassing chemical propulsion entirely becomes more believable. The story hints at this by mentioning that ships having a front end (and thus an exhaust end) is strange, and that planets with 1G are on the extreme end for space-faring species, so less violent technologies for ascending out of gravity wells would be more viable.
It's easy to think our solutions to weapons design are obvious, but that's not the case at all. Gunpowder existed for hundreds of years, used in fireworks and rockets, before someone had the idea of packing into a barrel and using it to propel a projectile out of said barrel rather than use the gunpowder as fuel in a rocket. I'm sure the first time someone tried to sell a cannon that there were a lot of people who said it could never work. Obviously the only way to use gunpowder is in a rocket. Blowing it up behind the rocket was clearly a waste and would achieve nothing. The fact we have literally millenia of hindsight makes certain things seem obvious to us, but its just not the case. Every time a new simple invention or product comes along, like a pet rock or a Ring doorbell, someone will always say "That was so easy I could have done that!" But heres the catch- you didn't. It seems obvious in hindsight because it's simple and someone else already did it. Its easy to look at a finished puzzle and see the big picture when you aren't the one that had to put it together.
"only" lol, lmao even
"If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid."
The aliens live on a lower gravity world that, from the descriptions, never aparently devoloped high explosives. That is why projectile weapons made no sense, nor did thrown grinades.
Human devolopment, adn warfair would have gone very differenty today if we never devoloped gunpowder, or it happened much later. Alfred Nobel was so horrified at the carnage the dynamite and other explosives he invented did that he left the foundation that hands out the Nobel Peace Prizes.
Not sure that is Valid, lots of people are VERY stupid but they still work, that does not make them "not stupid" :)
@@Realitygetreal concepts and people are two very different things. And I would add to the saying :
"If it's stupid but it works -repeatedly and reliable-, it isn't stupid." say like an AK47.
right or it could work like 1 time or a million times before breaking
and dude this is like an AI story or somevthing. idk if ur comment has taken that into account but if aything at all seems right in this story it has come from an artificial source which doesnt understand what makes a good story in the real world. thats why everyrthing is weird
Behold humanity by Ralts Bloodthorne has a lot of aliens mocking kinetic weapons... then they get hit by one that's the size of a truck going the speed of light
One HFY classic has multiple kinds of FTL, including hyperspace teleportation to FTL comms beacons. One of the uses of a miniaturized beacon is as a breaching charge. On-mission, each beacon is keyed to the Naval shipyards at Norfolk. The beacon basically has the classic claymore "This Side Towards Enemy" logo, but instead of exploding, it opens a wormhole to the barrel of a large artillery canon microseconds after it was remotely fired. I _think_ the plan was to use explosive rounds until such time as hypervelocity railguns can be completed and tied into the system.
@@bearnaff9387 behold humanity has every time of gun and travel as well. they have bullets that have ftl engines built into them(C+ rounds), they have bullets that phase out of this reality just long enough to bypass enemy shields and armor and detonate inside the core of the ship. they have slipstream, warp gates, wormhole travel, rewind drives, ftl, hyperspace bands (like 100 different levels of that, some of which are deadly to certain species), there is deadspace, hellspace, red space, mat trans, and others i cant remember right now... its the best story I have ever read. you just have to get passed the goofy first chapter and the very odd way he starts the story. its like a collection of interesting stories that begins to becomes something amazing
Such a good series. I have literally shown it to all my friends...what cracked me up is how each of us had favorite parts based on our respective fandoms. Me with the mechs and bolo tanks, them with the horror, Star Trek, Star Wars...etc!!!
@@shawnadams1460 i loved everything about it. the fact that its a divine inspiration from god, delivered by lightning, through the prophet Ralts Bloodthorne, is beside the point
im buying every book as they come out even though Ive read it twice over already.
@@oldnotweak Totally fine with sci-fi having weird bits in it. Deathworlders is a great series and the fact that the transhuman space marines are all these gung-ho meta-alpha guys who tend to flop over each other when watch TV like a pile of puppies can't really take away from that. Hell, I can read Heinlein being Heinlein and only have to shake my head ruefully and smirk at the book.
Sci-fi is full of things that would probably have been better not committed to verse.
"Why are they called tanks, Thomas?" Dammit that got me
Because The Conductor says so. 🤣
The other option for tanks to be called tanks is to call them "boilers".
Well, 'secrecy'. 'Russian' font labels on first tanks during transportation (used by combining and reversing engish one) was actually pretty readable and only a bit off.
In Russian period paper about new English weapon it was translated as "лохань' (" lokhan' " ) ie 'tub'.
@@chyronrus here I was laughing at China and its “Tanks did nothing wrong” attitude and you drop some nifty info. Thanks mate I might look that up sounds interesting
A representative of an alien race would not be met by a sergeant, sergeants would be there but a high ranking officer would take the lead.
Indianapolis a rather tragic name for a ship if you know what happened in WW2. A nice story.
The Navy will periodically reassign names, that said I would MUCH rather meet the US military aboard a ship named USS Indianapolis, rather than aboard one named USS Wisconsin.
Or USS New Jersey, Missouri, Texas, any of the old battlewagons. I damn well would not want to meet one on the IJN Yamato, IJN Musashi, KMS Bismarck, KMS Tirpitz. If I did and knew something of their history, I would run.
uss liberty would have been more accurate.
@@FirstIsathe uss Wisconsin is a Iowa class battle ship and it has harder hitting cannons than the Yamato
@@karal_the_crazy thank you but I'm well aware of what Big Whiskey was/is.
Wait till he learns about railguns
... and the "rods from God" (Kinetic weapon of tungsten dropped from space becomes supersonic and has the energy to destroy entire cities. If I'm not mistaken, they can be more powerful than nukes, especially if you drop several of them in a wider area (to not overlap) and/or if they're very large. (If I'm not mistaken they're so massive that each one has to be launched into space individually to be installed into the satellite weapons platform).
@@deucedeuce1572meh not so much they have about the power of a moab enough to take out a block or so not nearly enough for a city the energy is just to focused and a larger one is less efficient than standard explosives the only advantage they have is rapid deploy time in out of the way locations
@@bryantaylor948 Rods From God are poor mans orbital strikes if you already have rail guns you can just use the same tungsten rods as ammo you would just need a ferrous Sabot to accelerate it
@@bryantaylor948 ...so they spend Billions of dollars to launch each weapons into orbit... just to be able to take out the area of about a city block?
I do wonder what would happen if it hit a skyscraper though (straight down from the top). Would it become more destructive like a nuke when exploded above ground or would it become less powerful, because the building would cushion the blow? (I think it would less powerful).
Also... a city is made up of nothing more than "city blocks" is it not? So several/many of these could or would take out a city at the very least.
Wait until he finds out about booze...and cigarettes...and ...PornHub 😆
The grenades part reminds me of an other HFY story, where the idea of grenades were the most strange idea to all the aliends, because they were bad at throwing stuff.
Read John Scalzi's "Year Zero". The universe is full of races that are better than humans at everything, until they hear human music. Aliens are so bad at music that when they heard human music they were so overwhelmed that large populations died in ecstasy of brain hemorrhages.
That was just from the Welcome Back Kotter tv show theme music.
See this one actually makes sense as by and large throwing is a VERY rare skill in nature.
@@KingZolem
The most notable exception being an irritated primate with a handful of poo.
Ah, when military and weapons are written by someone who has no experience.
either that or it's AI generated, wich is the worse...
I've seen it all too often, people that have never served or perhaps never saw combat try to write detailed combat and it's just off, sometimes I swear some of them don't even know anything about firearms 🤦😮💨
And dear God I can't stand reading attempts at writing modern close air support and air strikes. I was an Airforce JTAC so those stories make me want to bonk my head on my desk repeatedly 😂
And who has no idea or vision about anthing. It reads like an USA military handbook and included a simpleton asking questions after each paragraph.
that's what infuriated me the most, even an extraterastial whould know about armored vehicles, and not act like it's the newest big thing. . .@@KiithNaabal
Yeah... From arming everyone onboard a ship all the time, to the space-fairing alien having little/no familiarity with high speed kinetic systems and propellants, to armored fighting vehicles being unfamiliar - it was all weird.
I mean, I have read a story where that was OK - but anti-grav and FTL were sister developments like magnets and electricity. In fact, they were easier to master, but went down a development pathway that all-but precluded electromagnetism as a field of study. Electromagnetism apparently did a good job of leading us away from FTL anyway. Either way, most species inclined to go exploring and exploiting were reasonably capable at roughly the tech-level of the late 15th century in Europe. The median tech-level of the galaxy is, by our standards, pre Age-of-Sail.
As one would expect, exposing sailors with unrifled muskets who expected that any species not in space was early iron age to a small National Guard force was horrifyingly educational. For them.
I apologize but I'm an AI Narrator.
Me: Apology not accepted.
And here I thought Shad was talking about Nunchucks again.
You see Oz, we started dominating the planet by throwing spears, and now we throw thousands of smaller spears hundreds of times a minute. It really does solve every problem. Every. Single. Problem.
If you have lasers, and space travel, supersonic bullets should be a trivial technology. A species capable of using plasma technology and faster than light should have no trouble at all understanding projectiles and supersonic projectiles.
Aside from these details, a good story.
Exactly.
The path not taken.
Necessity is the mother of invention. No necessity, no invention.
You assume too much. What if humans had never needed to build fires? Do you really think they would have ever invented projectile weapons? Different planet, different evolutionary path.
I was really enjoying the story. I hope there's a part two
@danieldunlap4077 this is the whole series, read by a human ua-cam.com/play/PLeGEGF1MrdbRJ9MVLtpzFp20VxNGTVNto.html
agro squerrile has the whole series done as far as i know
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@@skullcrsher4946Cheers
This was a series off reddit. Its pretty good.
Alien: "Our lazers burn through metal!"
Human: "yes but i have yet found a creature unable to beat gun."
The spacefaring alien species that doesn't understand physics
One of best and funniest stories I´ve heard so far and you picked just the most fitting voice to deliver. Well done and thank you. I enjoyed it very much.
Read the story yourself. Stop with the AI reading.
Is it text to speech? Thought I heard a "stumble" in the read back, so there might be an actual reader there. I'd like to know for sure since I too don't want to support bot channels.
Sounds pretty good to me! But now you have me listening for errors. LOL!
@@Logajam.- There have been amazing advances in text to speech engines. You have to listen carefully for words like lives pronounced Liv’s. 😊
Edit: The AI pronounced VIP as vip not V.I.P. An an unship instead of U.N. Ship. 🤓
Yeah I'm tired of the AI. I would love for more channels to cover this but I won't support AI channels unless they are reading their own original content. For now I'm sticking with Net Narrator and Agro.
@@Erin-Thor It was probably spelled vip or VIP and not V.I.P.
12:44 "How obsessed is this species with physical projectile ammunition?"
i chuckled
Heads-up to any prospective gun enthusiasts: The author is incorrect in his comparison of the recoil of an assault rifle and a handgun. Technically, the rifle does produce more recoil, but because it is fired with the stock firmly in the pocket of the shoulder, that force is distributed evenly throughout the upper torso. The recoil you feel is minimal. A handgun usually has no such point of contact, so most of the recoil is absorbed by your arms first and it feels like more force than a rifle. Between the physics, operation of the weapon, and ease of aiming, rifles chambered in intermediate calibers are almost always easier to learn than handguns, and thus are more appropriate for novice shooters.
Okay, scratch my first sentence. Later on the author covers pretty much the same thing I did.
Wow. General Dynamics will be proud that their design will continue into the future where have FTL.
Imagine we discover ftl have fleets of massive ships and we still use the M1 Abrams.
Well, I mean we still use a heavy machine gun created in WW1 these days. And it's still one of the most effective out there.
Just slap a nuclear reactor on that thing and boom, you have the perpetank, it just won't die.
@@1337penguinman Not quite; the M2 Browning was developed in the interwar years. It's even more crazy that we still use a late 1890s cartridge as the standard handgun cartridge for most of the world
That tank went through 3 world wars, WW3 WW4 and WW5. Its good kit.
Just means we need an FTL Abrams.
I guarantee that Aliens will not be using Feet as a measurement, they are all metric.
What if the average alien foot is 12 inches?
@@PavewayJDAM they still won't be using inches as a measurement.
A captivating story with a cliffhanger ending. Does it continue?
@edhenderson1655 this is the whole series read by a human ua-cam.com/play/PLeGEGF1MrdbRJ9MVLtpzFp20VxNGTVNto.html
@@skullcrsher4946 Thank you very much!
"How do you load the rifle" Switches to a picture of a handgun... with a mutated combination index-thumb
Modern human firearms do /not/ use gunpowder. We haven't used that, other than for hobbyist firearms, in well over a hundred years. We transitioned from Gunpowder to Cordite back in the late 19th century, and then to Nitrocellulose in the Early 20th century; much more power, smoother burn rate, way less smoke, and less barrel fouling. A firearm aficionado could explain in greater detail, but I think I have the basics correct.
Smokeless powder is still called gunpowder by anyone who actually buys it and reloads ammo, such as myself. Stop with the semantics. Powder makes guns go boom. Hence gunpowder.
a gun behind every atom of a human
"If it's stupid, but works, it's not stupid."
It's there somewhere I can just read this story instead of listening to robovoice mess up every vocal emote?
Its actually make sense.
Imagine you are so advanced and have all of those Mathematical in your Brain.
You will forget anything that dont belong to that.
Maybe that's just Human perspective of thinking, but no organism cannot remember 1000 of Years.
But if Alien Race doesn't have Resources to make similar effects like Gun Powder, Kinetic Weapons is indeed unknown for them.
"Strikes a small piece of the bullet" should be "Strikes a small piece of the cartridge".
I legitimately want to hear a part 2 of this one.
the dude holding a kniftol is my favorite picture.
@17:22 I laffed
"Kinetics were obsolete hundreds of years before my species became space-faring"
So, your species spent more time developing weapons than FTL? Interesting..
Correction: The bullet is what is propelled towards the target. The cartridge is what holds the primer, so the hammer strikes the primer, which is embedded in the back of the cartridge. The distinction is important. Nobody who is a weapons specialist would make that mistake. Cartridges for snipers in the US military are loaded by the military to their standards. To confuse a cartridge for a bullet would be considered a newbie mistake.
Its pretty funny how some people cant notice that these are read by AI
I can tell the writer either knows guns or knows someone that knows guns.
The AI images are pretty much ridiculous..17:35 took the cake! 😆😆😆
FTL travel and the Americans still use freedom units 😂
didnt even need to mention accuracy if he was imagining large explosives
Many are talking here about kinetic vs energy weapons, and nobody remembers that this alien has like 3 pairs of manipulators. 2 limbs for heavy lifting and 4 limbs for coordinated accuracy. Also, it seems that the "heavy hands" are unable to throw things with accuracy or speed and the smaller arms just aren't strong enough. So, kinetic ranged weapons were never "the thing" for them after catapult went obsolete and I am curious how Ozis would react just to simple arrow and bow.
That was good, great concept.
1:40 be like: "6'0 vs 5'11"
2:08 are they holding swords?
Wow that was awesome. Please continue
This was an excellent story, interesting and well told. But it was very disappoint that the story ended right as the action began, and there is no indication of a part two. Unfinished stories are very frustrating and I wish sites would either stop posting them, or list them as "unfinished".
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there is a play list with the rest of the story
Brilliant. What a great little story.
This one was really good. I'd love to read a whole novel of this.
The benifits of lasers is if you can collect the energy. You can charge your laser weapon pretty much anywhere, power is generated and collected, but its going to take a ton of it to get any form of penetration.
Plasma would be similar a lot similar to that, but the extra mass would make it more efficient then a laser.
But kinetics while adding a whole another set of logistics to the equation would always be a lot more efficient when it comes to destructive potential.
This is why I can see a space faring civilization switching to plasma, but this also why I see whole idea of alien invasion to be stupid, and why the dark forest theory written by that Chinese author would make more sense even if the book itself was more science fantasy then science fiction. It would litterally be activity only ever done by a civilization looking to assimilate other species into their belief system or something done out of hedonistic purposes. Something that a civilization that has access to the infinite resources of space would have a hard time convincing itself to do. So destruction in the interest of security would be the only real logical outcome.
Look at how quick our leaders are to try warp the public into thinking putting suicide drones in the hands of cops is a good idea.
Gunpowder does not explode. It burns at a fast rate. Again, the distinction is important as there are difference burn rates for different powders. Each has its purpose. For example, slower burning powders are used in rifle cartridges, while handgun cartridges are loaded with quicker burning powder to ensure a full burn in a shorter barrel.
Any/every explosion is just burning at high speed. ->So in that regard it does explode.
Copper should be universally identifiable by sentients.
Evidently the writer(s) never read the scif i storys of Robert Heinlein, Zelazney, Sir Isaac Asimov or their like. These writers gave excellent furturistic views fo Interstellar space voyages, and outser space views of future life. It all made sense. This story line is soo archaic it is beyond belief! If we have intestellar spsce drive then we would also have photonic space laser guns. Showing a tank is backwards engineering we would have progressed into the more secretive military ideals that have not yet been shown. This discourse gets a C- from an avid sci fi reader from the 50s.
Amen to that
welp warhammer 40k tends to disagree
Maybe, maybe not. Look at what Sci Fi writers in the 30s and 40s were absolutely sure would be commonplace today. Pretty much none of it is. But a lot of other stuff they never even considered, is.
All that to say that what we have seen with weapons technology that has actually been deployed is that it is kinetic and very deadly. Sure, you can say, "but in the future when we have plasma this and photon that", but we have no idea if or when that might be, if ever. Kinetics have served man well for thousands of years. I would imagine we would likely stick with variants of that up until the point where we get our asses handed to us by someone or thing using non kinetic weapons. We'd assess, regroup, research and implement our own versions of that into our arsenal.
It is the way humans have aways done it, and we are creatures of habit. For better or worse.
Our fire arms have fewer circuts and dont need batteries. Military weapons are about simplicity and reliability. We need to advance further in battery and capaciter tech to have laser rifles than we do to build a ship with a ftl drive train. Not only will we need super conductors but super insulators so the weapons dont shock the end user.
Also, bullets are simply highly refined rocks. Humans started ranged combat by throwing rocks. We are just keeping the tradition going.
Who said those writers have all the knowledge on combat and Warfare
Wow O_O
I was disappointed it ended, because liked it so much
Why did you put guns on your first FTL ship?
_Why did we take a car to the moon?_
I like that the AI generated image for "Explosion" is one dude pulling another dude's finger.
Interesting idea for a story. I like it.
Another space aliens never heard of a gun before story. Wait till they hear about the one where the chief scientist turns himself into a pickle.
Bravo,,,well done and well said,,,what fun,,,😮😊❤
Oh I DO hope there's more to this story
Stopped just when it was getting exciting! Is there a part 2?
Very well crafted story!
Human doesn't know how his own grenades work
Obviously you have no idea either. Duh
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Obvious; how so?
At 17:45 looks like picture is of two guys passing a gun to the other but shooting him thinking, "Well he did say, Let me have it!"
21:00 It is a VERY precise laser.
The idea that current weapons are still in use in the future is fascinating even if they have nee upgraded for more improved uses. the fact that kinetic weapons may have shorter range but more accurate than energy more powerful ones that are less accurate seems contrasting. The reason why energy-based weapons are only being tested now is because we lack the amount of energy needed to make then accurate or long range. the best part seen humans in combat, and revelations of deception on his part by his superiors.
Human throw rock really fast.
The azgard in Stargate had the same thought about guns
Gun powder doesn't explode - it burns up - and the expanding gasses are what force the bullet down the barrel.
explosion definition:
A release of mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy in a sudden and often violent manner with the generation of high temperature and usually with the release of gases.
Gunpowder explodes.
Which is called an explosion.
Brother...
the picture around 17:28 ...what the hell was the prompt for that? Casual murder?
"Can I take a look at your weapon?"
"Sure ... bang!"
How do i know if I'm listening to a ChatGPT story?
Nice story. Work on the pictures is needed though.
hmm... I find it implausible that an alien species with FTL capability would be almost completely ignorant of Newtonian physics. A weapons specialist that does not understand F=MA?? I'm out.
I feel that this should have a part 2
I like the shorter stories, twenty, thirty minutes
This just reminds me of the Rods from God concept and the whole Shadowrun "Squirtgun Wars" stories and I'm all for that.
06:40: I don't know what kind of weapon the AI generated here, but I need it. Now.
I think author missed the part that these weapon rules of UN only concern either use against troops or against populated areas. Ship to ship combat, anti-material use is fine.
Also less accuracy is actually also an advantage, because it compensates bad aim. Or fast-moving shooter.
You called it the UN like in Idiocracy. Lol.
AWESOME!!!
I enjoyed this series. There's like 10+ chapters. Agro or NetNarrator reads it.
Operation Snow Eagle is also really good, imo
with plasma being over 6000 degrees it not penetrating hardly seems like a problem. Something like a tiny sun would not need to be inside you to be bad
I like this story were it's told from the point of view of an E.T.
Great job, subbed.👍👍
The AI generated pictures depicting things that run directly opposite to what the AI voice is saying is hilarious.
This is what happens when entire stories are made by AI.
Minor correction:
Americans wouldn't refer to the machine gun calibre (11:35) as 12.7mm. They'd call it a "Fifty calibre." For a 0.50 BMG, that is. The 12.7mm designation more commonly refers to Soviet/ Russian weapon calibres. While they're both the same calibre (ie- 0.50 calibre means it has a calibre of 0.5 of an inch, where an inch is ~ 25.4mm. So half an inch = 12.7mm), the rounds are not interchangeable (different case sizes and geometries, as well as different pressures/ amounts of powder in either bullet).
Still... Unless the author of the story were to read this, the comment is nearly pointless. Its only value being that I enjoy writing and it's possible it might help inform some other writer.
Cool stuff
Very nice story of military cultrure contract, very nice to hear
Stargate SG-1 series. Highly advance race decides to use human logic to help them defeat an equally advance type of Machine that only consumes to make more of its kind to replicate and consume.
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more, no less.
You are the enemy of your enemy.
Love letter to kinetic energy weapons .
Oh man, I thought the thumbnail was hinting at a destroy all humans remake! Dammit!
The most blaring mistake the AI reader made was pronouncing "millimeter" "M" "M"
AI is quickly becoming hated for the laziness it allows humans to have
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And I hated this once I figured out that's what it was.
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