[QUOTE=Reds;44219133]Spears are such an underrated weapon in fiction. It's always about the swords, but y'all ain't got shit on my range advantage.[/QUOTE]
both of them can kill,
good enough for me
[QUOTE=Reds;44219133]Spears are such an underrated weapon in fiction. It's always about the swords, but y'all ain't got shit on my range advantage.[/QUOTE]
Well swords just look cooler, plus spears are sort of redundeant when halberds and poleaxes exist.
[QUOTE=Rockeiro123;44219653]Well swords just look cooler, plus spears are sort of redundeant when halberds and poleaxes exist.[/QUOTE]
They're good for swinging. Spears are good for poking and getting through the cracks in your armour.
[QUOTE=Reds;44219685]They're good for swinging. Spears are good for poking and getting through the cracks in your armour.[/QUOTE]
Well there's the pike, which is used in groups and is longer than the spear.
[t]http://media.freeola.com/images/user-images/11200/pikemen1.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=kaine123;44207788][url]http://www.npr.org/2014/03/10/286407698/quiz-what-came-out-of-world-war-i[/url][/QUOTE]
Many people fail to realize how essential a role horses played during warfare until interstates and such were built.
The Polish still had mounted cavalry units when WWII broke out
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Polish_cavalry_in_Sochaczew_(1939).jpg[/img]
[img]http://imh.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/last_cav.jpg[/img]
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L1--fyDVodw/TIygXGSAc8I/AAAAAAAAAWg/lw--BnRcu3U/s1600/Polish+Cavalry.jpg[/img]
[img]http://histmag.org/grafika/mag006/kawaleria5.jpg[/img]
Of course they got their shit kicked in because they were taking on Panzers with Pikes. But horses were still used by Germany and everyone else to haul supplies over shitty terrain, especially in slav shitholes like Russia.
Even today horses are used militarily, mainly in spec-ops type work with no supply line. It's particularly useful in Afghanistan - it's too mountainous for a lot of wheeled vehicles.
It's also crucial to distinguish between cavalry (who fought on horseback) from mounted infantry (who fought dismounted). The latter were much more common in the late days of horse combat - they were highly mobile and could easily flank the enemy, but could fight more effectively and with less training than mounted combatants. They were almost a sort of early mechanized infantry.
Now, if you want some absurd cavalry stuff, there's footage of a Chinese nuclear test which was used as a military drill (a common thing at the time - I've seen footage of an American test that was followed by a combined-arms charge, on foot, in armored vehicles and from helicopter). The Chinese, however, included a cavalry charge toward the mushroom cloud - the thoughtfully equipped not just their own soldiers, but their horses, with gas masks.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44220095]
Of course they got their shit kicked in because they were taking on Panzers with Pikes.[/QUOTE]
wasnt this a myth
[editline]13th March 2014[/editline]
[url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/myth-of-polish-cavalry-charge[/url]
[quote] Polish lancers, whose units had still not been motorised, did indeed charge a Wehrmacht infantry battalion but were forced to retreat under heavy machine gun fire. By the time German and Italian war correspondents got there, some tanks had arrived and they joined the dots themselves.[/quote]
[QUOTE][img]http://i.imgur.com/Lr5KGrw.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=MenteR;44218092]the picture you posted looks like an album cover.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Lugburz.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Prollgurke;44200507][IMG]http://cdn-ugc.cafemom.com/gen/min/200/200/80/2013/05/30/15/ab/j1/postnasygc1fc2p.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
is it only me or does it remind anyone else of hitler?
[QUOTE=XeroG;44222127]is it only me or does it remind anyone else of hitler?[/QUOTE]
I think that's kind of the point
Artist representation of Jupiter by Adolf Schaller.
[t]http://www.laboiteverte.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Visiter-Jupiter.jpg[/t]
[t]http://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jovian-life-ii.png[/t]
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;44220095]Many people fail to realize how essential a role horses played during warfare until interstates and such were built.
The Polish still had mounted cavalry units when WWII broke out
Of course they got their shit kicked in because they were taking on Panzers with Pikes. But horses were still used by Germany and everyone else to haul supplies over shitty terrain, especially in slav shitholes like Russia.[/QUOTE]
German Infantry Divisions often didn't have enough fuel for their trucks so they had to use horses a lot.
[QUOTE=Araknid;44220412]wasnt this a myth
[/QUOTE]
no duh but the line sounded good
[QUOTE=simzboy;44222782]Artist representation of Jupiter by Adolf Schaller.
[t]http://www.laboiteverte.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Visiter-Jupiter.jpg[/t]
[t]http://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jovian-life-ii.png[/t][/QUOTE]
It looks so scary.
[QUOTE=simzboy;44222782]Artist representation of Jupiter by Adolf Schaller.
[t]http://www.laboiteverte.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Visiter-Jupiter.jpg[/t]
[t]http://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jovian-life-ii.png[/t][/QUOTE]
This is how the latest "Cosmos" showed Jupiter.
[img]http://christianready.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/101-102-cosmos-GRS-960x540.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=ZpankR;44225522]*tail guy*
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandre_Oram[/url][/QUOTE]
[quote]Oram was married in 2007 and has a child. According to his wife, "He doesn't look good. My mother and my father passed away when I was young. My brothers wanted me to get married, so I had to compromise and marry him."[/quote]
:(
[QUOTE=simzboy;44222782]Artist representation of Jupiter by Adolf Schaller.
[t]http://www.laboiteverte.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Visiter-Jupiter.jpg[/t]
[t]http://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jovian-life-ii.png[/t][/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ1WTsIxE34[/media]
[QUOTE=simzboy;44222782]Artist representation of Jupiter by Adolf Schaller.
[t]http://www.laboiteverte.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Visiter-Jupiter.jpg[/t]
[t]http://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jovian-life-ii.png[/t][/QUOTE]
that was commissioned for the original cosmos, its actually like a bunch of paintings in one so the camera could pan around it, really detailed.
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;44225240]Would jupiter even have blue skies?[/QUOTE]
Maybe.
Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly hydrogen, followed by helium. The remainder is small enough to ignore.
Rayleigh scattering is affected by molecule size, and if I read the equations right, a smaller molecule means a longer wavelength. However, I can't find the values I need to see how much longer it would need to be - it's possible it could be just slightly less blue than our own. Direct research gave no single result - it's either "blue" or "gold", depending on who answers. And it would depend not just on Jupiter, but also on the sun's spectrum and on our eye's sensitivity to colors (going just off chemistry, our sky should be violet - but the sun doesn't make much violet, and our eyes don't see it well, so blue dominates).
[QUOTE=gman003-main;44227567]Maybe.
Jupiter's atmosphere is mostly hydrogen, followed by helium. The remainder is small enough to ignore.
Rayleigh scattering is affected by molecule size, and if I read the equations right, a smaller molecule means a longer wavelength. However, I can't find the values I need to see how much longer it would need to be - it's possible it could be just slightly less blue than our own. Direct research gave no single result - it's either "blue" or "gold", depending on who answers. And it would depend not just on Jupiter, but also on the sun's spectrum and on our eye's sensitivity to colors (going just off chemistry, our sky should be violet - but the sun doesn't make much violet, and our eyes don't see it well, so blue dominates).[/QUOTE]
Also, wouldn't the sun be significantly smaller in Jupiter's sky?
Considering it's this small on mars.
[t]http://www.alienstudy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1381995121519_mars_sunset.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=booster;44227820]Also, wouldn't the sun be significantly smaller in Jupiter's sky?
Considering it's this small on mars.
[t]http://www.alienstudy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1381995121519_mars_sunset.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
That's entirely based on the FoV of the camera. That picture means nothing.
But yes it would obviously be smaller.
[QUOTE=booster;44227820]Also, wouldn't the sun be significantly smaller in Jupiter's sky?
Considering it's this small on mars.
[t]http://www.alienstudy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1381995121519_mars_sunset.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Now that I did find answers on. The Sun would be one quarter the visible size it is on Earth, and only 4% as bright.
Jupiter is something like 5 AU (5x the distance from the sun-earth) away from the sun. It's going to be quite small at that distance...at least much smaller than it is in the picture.
[editline]13th March 2014[/editline]
yeah 5.4 to 4.9 AU away.
[QUOTE=paul simon;44227996]That's entirely based on the FoV of the camera. That picture means nothing.
But yes it would obviously be smaller.[/QUOTE]
I chose that picture because if there's someone who'd keep the proportions realistic and to use for reference, it'd be NASA.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;44228277]yeah 5.4 to 4.9 AU away.[/QUOTE]
is it now common practice to measure the universe in Australias? :zoid:
[QUOTE=Aj;44228691]is it now common practice to measure the universe in Australias? :zoid:[/QUOTE]
i tend to measure it in new zealands
[QUOTE=simzboy;44222782]Artist representation of Jupiter by Adolf Schaller.
[t]http://ferrebeekeeper.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jovian-life-ii.png[/t][/QUOTE]
I got the faintest feeling of nostalgia looking at those, then the name rang a bell and I realized he illustrated this book I loved as a kid:
[IMG]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R40PAGSZL._SX258_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg[/IMG]
I haven't even thought about it in ten years, oh god, man [I]the feelings[/I] what have you done
Went for a walk this morning, took a picture of the sky.
Pardon my novice photography and shitty phone camera:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/HT74peG.jpg[/t]
Earlier in the walk the sky was blood red and when I walked past the water it reflected it so well it looked like a lake of glowing blood. It was a shame I forgot to take a picture.
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