Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

People have the weird misconception that diamond is some kind of impervious or near-impervious material.

People ask "could we make tanks out of diamond" / "why don't we make tanks from diamond".

The biggest problem is that diamond is extremely hard. Hard essentially means stiff - it doesn't bend. So it maintains form pretty much all the way straight up to the breaking point. Which can be a good property for some tasks as long as you remember to stay below that threshold.

Also, diamond catches fire and can be burnt. It is coal after all. It's said to burn with a blue flame. Not that I'm going to buy a bag of diamonds and test the color or the speed at which they burn.

Indeed, it's no special wonder material. It's just another material that is extremely useful in the right conditions. Rubber is extremely useful in the right conditions.

 

Also just because its hard doesnt mean it cant be pierced.

 

That's what he said?

 

Right?

 

I think this is satirical (though I think people are putting signs "gun free home" outside) but still is a really stupid idea.

 

Red light district is a sign that you can pay to get tail.

Spoiler: NSFW Super offensive overly sensitive political joke

 

Talk about stupidity...


Just give it a few weeks before criminals start targeting these people.

 

Fuckin' Ay, Netherlands.

 

Shooting down aircraft is also illegal..

So yeah..

one of those also violates FCC regulations.

as you cannot operate a device that intentionally disrupts electrical devices from operating. Basically it cant send any signals for the single purpose of disrupting another devices operation.

This is all going by memory so i could be wrong.

edit for grammar

 

http://www.actiontrip.com/news/fan-...post-remove-uncharted-4-review-score/051616_9

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Yes, federal officers will actually apprehend you if they find out that you're using devices that disrupt electrical devices. They might even pick you up for listening to wrong frequencies or using a freq. scanner.

On the other hand if your falcon just went ahead and did that, is there a law against it?

Sometimes I hate our Western civilization.
It would be so much cooler to just build a laser cannon and make the drones explode.

Instead we're all like "shit, another drone going for our nuclear plant/white house/pentagon/... can't really do anything about it, hope it's not malicious"

Kind of like with pirates?
"These guys set out to kill a bunch of people and steal a ship. We're going to do nothing about it because we caught them with guns on their way to raid a ship but they didn't get there yet"

 

Hint: those dark spots are not it's eyes. They're it's nostrils. The eyes are inside the translucent head and pointing upwards... The enormous green things pointed upwards are it's eyes.

 

and in Texas, somebody is waiting for this to become a thing, puts out a red porch light and then sits behind his front door with a shotgun...