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  1. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Honestly, Effigy Prime's command style actually seems like that of a good junior officer when taking his first command--that rare "butterbar" (2nd Lieutenant in US Army terms, OF-1 by NATO rank codes) who shows up at a new unit, knows he's really not that much better at this than his men...
  2. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Note that the big advantage of steam power is that it can run on literally any heat source. Coal, oil, uranium decay, wood, peat, old tires, even a simple electrical heating element powered by railway catenary--they've all been done before. Wood is a very renewable resource and it wouldn't...
  3. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    No, but there's less difference now than there used to be. The earliest SLBMs (like the Polaris family) would have been categorized as IRBMs (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles) if they were deployed on land, limited in their range by the limited size of missile that could be fit into a...
  4. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Belated, but: Bryke stated on their blogs that they had intended for two characters in the show to be on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, and did their best to code them appropriately on the show. However, they weren't permitted to make it explicit in the show because of Nickelodeon's Broadcast...
  5. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Note: Written BEFORE reading Part 4 of this arc (the one day I take off has to be the day that we get something like this, huh? :D ) Regarding the screw-ups of previous Avatars: Word of God/Bryke is that the first challenge for any new Avatar is fixing the mess left behind by their...
  6. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Better solution. Boom tube him to as deep as possible inside the event horizon of a black hole. If light can't get out, I'll bet that even someone with Kryptonian strength can't get out. Particularly with nothing solid to push off of. Plus there's a very good chance that even Kryptonian...
  7. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Other way around. The high-energy EM radiation emitted by the nuclear reaction is slowed and absorbed by the surrounding atmosphere, heating it and, through Boyle's Law, creating the massive overpressure that generates the blast effects in an atmospheric nuclear detonation. In a vacuum...
  8. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    I thought that the experiment on Captain Adam took place during Vietnam? If so, then no, carriers had definitely cemented themselves as the future of naval warfare by that time. Remember, the Pacific War in WW2 was almost entirely carrier-based, and the only battleships built after the end of...
  9. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Big deal. So a building at Pantex gets contaminated, that's just Tuesday there. Even if the implosion apparatus charge is large enough to breach the building (and while that was certainly true with the earliest ones, most modern implosion devices use less explosives in the trigger than a...
  10. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    ...and this made me realize exactly what just happened there at the end. It's a sudden bear market. Brought on by a sudden glut of fresh mortal souls entering the market and thus causing, effectively, inflation. Something very, very bad has just happened on the mortal plane, and it's big...
  11. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Long term, yes. Short term, however, this is the best option. The way to handle this is to wait a couple of weeks for him to cool off a bit (even Batman can't maintain that level of anger indefinitely!), then ask Superman to talk to him about turning the ring over to either League secure...
  12. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Honestly, if you just want someone experienced at controlling people with fear, rather than someone who's a master of it, you can pretty much take your pick of two-bit tin-pot dictators and/or heads of secret police forces. In both cases, they gained--and maintain--power purely through...
  13. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Nobody, nobody can ever predict how someone will react to being in combat for the first time in their life. And no, I'm not talking about "schoolyard scuffle fist fight" when I say combat, I mean combat. Real, honest-to-god, life-or-death fights where someone is genuinely trying to kill you...
  14. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    American English would pronounce it as "loo-tenants." The actual correct French pronunciation would be more along the lines of "leeuh-tehn-ahn," given the nasal sounds that French represents as (vowel)n in writing. So really, the American pronunciation is closer to the way the original French...
  15. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    For all his faults, Wade Eiling is still someone who managed to reach the rank of full General (four stars, pay grade O-10) in the US military (Air Force). That means he's not stupid, militarily, and you don't reach that rank without knowing to ask those worrying questions. (Honestly, having...
  16. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Somehow, I could see any universe's version of Guy wondering why he didn't learn about Tamaran back when he first got his ring. After all, prior to his settling down with Tora, I suspect that he'd really go for Tamaranean-style "friends with benefits that often involve groups" arrangements...
  17. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Well, that demands a bit of Gunny Hartmann... Now that I think of it, if there's any human who could wield a red ring without losing control and/or just failing to operate it properly, it'd probably be a Marine drill sergeant who's been stuck doing that job for the past decade-plus and is...
  18. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    Controlled venting is such a wonderful solution. I have this theoretical idea for a way to make certain volcanic mountains IRL much safer to humanity by deliberately weakening one area of the mountain to ensure that its next eruption will vent in a harmless (or, at least, least-harmful)...
  19. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    ..oh god. I had a horrible thought. What if the reason for all the 40k chapters lately is because "In the 41st Millennium, war is the only thing there is"? I know it's probably not true (I'm not a fan of the 40k lore, so I pretty much just skimmed those chapters), but if war is the result of...
  20. rdfox

    With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

    My problem with "robot drivers" isn't the thought of adding an autopilot system to existing cars; that's a brilliant idea that should have been done twenty-plus years ago, leveraging the technology developed from the aviation sector. It's the way in which all attempts at it have been leaning...
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