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WCDT Strips 3461-3465 (17-21 April 2017)
cesium133:
You mean I can't just ruin Pintsize's life by yelling "DROP TABLE horseporn;--" at him?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 19 Apr 2017, 09:26 ---I think there may be an assumption on the EMP thing.
Everyone assumes it is a broad band burst when it could just as easily be a single fixed frequency burst.
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No - that's the mistake I made first time. For maximum effect the burst must be as short as possible, to minimise the possibility of the target dissipating it as it arrives and thus cause maximum damage. The shorter a pulse is, the further it gets from being a single frequency.
Details here
--- Quote ---As the height of the pulse becomes larger and its width becomes smaller, it approaches a Dirac delta function and the magnitude spectrum flattens out and becomes a constant of magnitude 1 in the limit.
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de_la_Nae:
--- Quote from: Case on 19 Apr 2017, 04:54 ---
Worse, Antennae ... :-D
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The papered-over holes in my heart are rough enough, don't poke them with your antennae :psyduck:
jwhouk:
It might be that they found the sweet spot with the EMP (right frequency, right length, right amount of shielding) that it was effective on Bubbles.
I still buy the theory that it was a backdoor feature of some sort, and it deleted itself immediately after the pulse was delivered.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Akima on 18 Apr 2017, 16:08 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 16 Apr 2017, 14:39 ---I guess it's because oceans act as so-called "heat baths" - they dampen temperature changes. So the farther you're away from one ...
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Generally this is true, but even here in the Harbour City we can get sudden changes. A southerly front is like a wave of cold air sweeping up the coast, and can drop the temperature 10-15 degrees Celsius in minutes:
Canadian Tire money? Is that something you use to purchase fatigue? :P
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For what it's worth, that picture isn't of an advancing cold front, but of a derecho (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho). The characteristic wall cloud of an approaching derecho looks very different from the typical horizontal bands carried by an advancing cold front.
A strong derecho like the one in your picture can be quite terrifying. A strong one can fly along at 60 mph (100 kph), driving hurricane-strength winds across a band many miles wide which can take half an hour to pass. A strong one will typically be accompanied by drenching rain, hail, and even tornadoes. Major derechos can last for hours; one last year appeared in the northwestern Ohio and persisted all the way east to Washington, D.C., a distance of several hundred miles.
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