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WCDT strips 4051-4055 (22 - 26 July 2019)
Theta9:
--- Quote from: Mr Intrepid on 27 Jul 2019, 07:37 ---The magnetic fields used in, say, a parts picker are likely thousands of orders of magnitude less than a EMP weapon would use. If indeed, magnetism would be part of that.
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Why wouldn't it? You know the M in EMP stands for "magnetic", don't you?
Thrudd:
Magnetization of items you pick up with a magnet is minimal at best.
If they do end up with a residual magnetic field there is always the degausser coil to get rid of that.
As for robotics I would hazard that very little if any iron is used, just like in most modern equipment that is designed to be light, portable yet relatively strong.
So various alloys of aluminum, manganese, titanium and the like as well as carbon fibre, ceramics and plastics.
Now CAT equipment is STRONG but is neither light nor portable and that Yellow paint scheme for crushbot suggests heavy duty industrial with stress on the heavy bit.
The actual engineering for the humanoid chassis and their pseudo musculature uses the cutting edge technology of handwavium.
As for the EMP - it is the EM standing for Electro-Magnetic and the two are not separate.
ElectroMagnetics covers everything from your flashlight beam to that to the output of an X-ray pulsar to how the alternator in you car operates to the FM signal your radio picks up.
Now as for Bubbles being rendered immobile. I very much doubt the Military didn't harden her systems against any type of brute strength EM Pulse.
As for a vulnerability of that would allow a bit of nefarious code being injected into her systems? That would be something completely different and would not require crazy amounts of power, just knowledge about the code vulnerability and how best to inject the data through her sensor net.
Wingy:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 29 Jul 2019, 07:23 ---Now as for Bubbles being rendered immobile. I very much doubt the Military didn't harden her systems against any type of brute strength EM Pulse.
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I'm sure they did, within certain weight and probably other structural limits. However, there are any number of examples where weapons have been upgraded, causing older weapons/structures to become vulnerable to a planned attack type. See cannon vs. masonry walls (pre-reinforced concrete) and tank armor vs. anti-tank projectiles in WWII as just two examples. A weaponized AI is designed and constructed at a point in time and weapon technology is constantly evolving. Therefore it's likely that an EMP weapon could be produced after Bubbles-type bodies were available (accidentally, or intentionally with a Bubbles-type as target) that would render those bodies disabled, damaged, or kaput. Bubbles related temporarily disabled but didn't really specify how or what repair (if any) was accomplished.
cybersmurf:
Every time I hear or read 'kaput' in English, I'm amused. Never ever would I have imagined "kaputt" making its way from German to English.
"classic" EMP - like from nuclear explosions - mainly render electronics inoperable. Apparently, Bubbles is reinforced against those kinds of attacks, since she isn't broken.
Maybe EMPs of sufficient power create a power surge which needs to be dissipated, or forcing her to reboot. And that few moments may be enough for a machine gun nest to do the damage described.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 29 Jul 2019, 09:43 ---Every time I hear or read 'kaput' in English, I'm amused. Never ever would I have imagined "kaputt" making its way from German to English.
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My half English, half German father, born in the '20s in the Midwest, used the word to describe mechanical and/or electronic devices worn or damaged beyond his considerable ability to effect repairs. (Some guys define their manhood by who they can beat up, some by how much booze they can put away and remain standing. For Dad it was what he could repair or cobble together.) My French and German maternal grandmother sprinkled her speech with words and phrases from both languages. I don't recall her ever asking, "understand?" but she'd always say "verstehen?"
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