Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
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[x] Minami Nikkō's name is added to the Memorial Stone.
[x] Mari trains Sakura and Haru
[x] Previous attempts to sell the Orochi-mansion
[x] Mari trains Sakura and Haru
[x] Previous attempts to sell the Orochi-mansion
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Because black hole evaporation releases less energy than an antimatter fusion by a factor of 2.
[x] team uplift vs Team Gai
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Wasn't that cancelled due to Mist losing its S-rankers?
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Nope. The reason The Battle of Gods happened was because Leaf thought Mist was going to be down an S-tanker
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[x] Jiraya becomes the toad summoner
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[x] Minami Nikkō's name is added to the Memorial Stone.
[X] Team Training with Pangolin
[X] Team Training with Pangolin
Raxner
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Kindly explain for those of us that aren't physicists?
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All matter is made up of quarks. There are six types of quarks with increasingly silly names - up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm.
So-called 'strange matter' is made up of a mix of up, down, and strange quarks. It's postulated to have some unusual properties. The two most concerning in concert are:
- When you get enough strange matter together, it's more energetically stable than regular matter
- Collisions between strange matter and regular matter can catalyse the conversion of the latter into the former
At least in theory. We haven't actually seen any strange matter in the real world, and the only conditions conducive to its production are the middle of neutron stars.
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Do you mean that collisions between strange matter and regular matter can catalyse the conversion of the latter into the former?
Raxner
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So quarks are sub-sub-atomic? Smaller than protons, neutrons, and electrons?
You say that the conditions for strange matter to be produced only exist in the middle of neutron stars--so strange quarks have never been empirically observed, only theoretically deduced?
Suppose that we threw a chunk of strange matter at my table. I take it that the table would be (expected to) explode as little chunks of strange matter, strangelets. Would it still look like wood, with the difference between strange and non-strange matter being detectable only at the micro level, or would it look completely different?
Thanks for the explanation.
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Yup. All hadrons (which includes protons and neutrons) are made up of three quarks.
Fun trivia: The bottom and top quarks were originally called "truth" and "beauty" respectively. I blame physicists for abandoning those names in favor of the boring mundanity that they chose.
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I'd like to point out that we should probably wait until the mechanics are more finalized before we go Team Uplift versus Team Gai, on second thought: I'd like it as a check for how strong both we and they are. That's not exactly valid if mechanics change between now and the time the story resumes.
On the other hand, if we could get Team Training with Pangolin, we'd have a much better idea of their competencies -- frankly, I don't have a clue how strong any of them are, so it's hard to say how appropriate deploying them is in any circumstance.
On the other hand, if we could get Team Training with Pangolin, we'd have a much better idea of their competencies -- frankly, I don't have a clue how strong any of them are, so it's hard to say how appropriate deploying them is in any circumstance.
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[X] Team Training with Pangolin
Cariyaga
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On another note: We should see about talking to the Crab Summoning Clan.
Why? Because we can arrange for easy trade via storage seals and summoners, both for the Crab Nation, MIst, Leaf, and the Pangolin/Toads, creating both a stronger diplomatic alliance amongst summon clans and the nations of Leaf and Mist.
Why? Because we can arrange for easy trade via storage seals and summoners, both for the Crab Nation, MIst, Leaf, and the Pangolin/Toads, creating both a stronger diplomatic alliance amongst summon clans and the nations of Leaf and Mist.
As far as Hazou is concerned in the last update, we're really like something out of H.P. Lovecraft. Think about it:
- Space is torn apart from a direction that shouldn't exist.
- Out of this portal comes a few uncanny-valley humanoids and floating symbols/shapes.
- They keep arguing with someone you can't detect.
- History keeps getting rewritten, and you can sort of remember the "false" timelines.
- The beings claim to have previously lived in your head and controlled your thoughts.
- They know things about the future, other people's secrets, and the nature of the universe.
- They make reference to other universes.
- One of them is compulsively screaming.
- Some of them are trying to get you to start an atypical lovelife "because it will make you stronger in battle".
- One of them is very insistent that you destroy the world, and only too happy to show you how to do so using only the materials you have on hand.
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That's what I said.
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>using only the materials you have on hand
Come now. For some materials he'd need to go shopping first.
Raxner
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Fascinating. I wonder how they figure this stuff out? (Yeah, I really do wonder that--just not enough to go in for a few physics degrees.)
Cariyaga
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Powerful enough magnets to rip atoms apart and smash them together, mostly, afaik.