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At a cursory glance, i would say yes, but i would like
to know what swordfish swords are made of and how
strong they are. They're also more rapiers than
swords. |
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(And, according to Mr. Wiki's pedia, the pointy bit is often
used for slashing - wouldn't this make it a sword rather than a
rapier?) |
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I used to mix those up as a child. A narwhal
definitely is a rapier though, or possibly some kind of
screw attached to a dwarf sperm whale.
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The matador gets a rapier. Not the swordfish. Actually, watching
the matador attempt to wield a 6-ft claymore underwater would
be even more worth it. |
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Could there maybe be some kind of superorganism consisting of various badass animals strapped together, so there's a bundle of narwhal, swordfish and electric eel with something really poisonous or something, and you just drop someone in there with it and they have to avoid being simultaneously stabbed, eaten, poisoned and electrocuted? Or is that just silly? |
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Not if the prize money was high enough.
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I thought about narwhals, but I don't think they're aggressive
enough. Kinda hard to rile up, I imagine. I dunno, though. Any
whale trainers in the room? |
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I think if an animal is big enough, it could be more inadvertently dangerous than specifically ferocious. They weigh a ton and a half and they're over four metres long. |
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compared to the swordfish's "measly" 300 lbs. If the swordfish was trained to thrust as well as parry, you'd have shishkescubab pretty quick. |
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//shishkescubab pretty quick//
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An 80 km/hr shishkescubab. Holy crap. |
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//Any whale trainers in the room?//
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Is it in order to consider the velocity and the mass of
the projectiles? I can't find any information on how
hard narwhals swim, but i suppose the big issue is
whether they can be induced to swim at one with
their horns aimed. They don't look as streamlined as
swordfish for a start, and weigh about twice as
much. |
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//Three juvenile narwhals captured during August 1998 in the northeast of Svalbard, Norway, were equipped with satellite-relayed data loggers (SRDLs) that transmitted diving and swim-speed data, in addition to location, for up to 46 days. A total of 1,354 complete dive cycles were recorded. Most of the diving was shallow and of short duration. Maximum recorded dive depth was 546 m, maximum recorded dive duration was 24.8 min, and maximum recorded swim-speed was 4.7 ms−1. Ascent speed, vertical ascent speed, descent speed and vertical descent speed were all significantly higher during deep dives (>200 m) than for shallow dives (<200 m). In addition both ascent and descent angles were much steeper for deep dives than during shallow dives. Most of the shallow diving seemed to be associated with travelling, with the animal shifting between various locations, while the deep diving (often to the bottom) for extended periods in some specific areas might have been associated with foraging. Even though the sample size in this study is small, the data are the first information available for movements and diving behaviour of narwhals near Svalbard.// |
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4.7 ms? As in meters per second? |
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hmm that didn't copy correctly.
It says 4.7 ms-1. I'm not sure what the -1 signifies. |
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//One word: electric eel//
Oh dear! Such an elementary maths error from an alleged scientist. I'm afraid, Maxwell, that you will have to stand in the corner and face the wall until lunchtime. |
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// I'm not sure what the -1 signifies// it signifies 'per' as in m/s, meters per second.
ms without the -1 would indicate 'meter-seconds' which would be a measure not of speed but of (for example) taxi usage.
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Consider the difference between 100 man-hours, and 100 men per hour. |
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//Consider the difference between 100 man-hours, and 100 men per hour//
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Covered in the first chapter of Intro to Physics for Halbakers ... |
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//the first chapter of Intro to Physics for Halbakers//
"The AI on/off switch is conveniently located in the centre of mass of the electronics. Have a nice flight" ? |
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The "-1" convention is pretty lame in most circumstances considering "/" takes up less room and is more in line with the spoken "per"... that and my keyboard doesn't do superscripts well. |
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Very true, but it looks all modern and "scientific" and also weeds out the ignorami who have to ask what it is there for. |
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Ah, well, see I read that as ingorigami on the brochure and thought we got to make these little foldy pretty things but since there was no refund... |
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