The Rikti are stealing our oxygen!
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Posted on: 2010-05-22 15:44 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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"Lots" and "Not without Time Lord science making things bigger on the inside".
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Originally Posted by Leandro
how much would the atmosphere need to be thinned before we couldn't breathe it anymore, can a single mothership do that
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Makes me think of this scene
Enterprise nearly burns off the atmosphere
If they were off by the smallest of margins the entire atmosphere would've burned off!
Granted this isn't a mothership and it isn't 'sucking' the oxygen away.
Still, taken out of context and with the clip ending before going back to the surface, it kinda looks like they're just sucking it into space.
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Well, depending on your opinions of the accuracy of Wikipedia's entries, the mass of the earth's atmosphere is around 5x10^18kg.|
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
"Lots" and "Not without Time Lord science making things bigger on the inside".
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Roughly 1/5th is O2, so that means roughly 1x10^18kg of O2 , or 1,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons. This is a lot.
Liquid O2 has a density of 1.141g/cm^3, so that means we'd have a cube of liquid oxygen... ummm.... hang on <goes for calculator>
I think it comes out as a cube of roughly 95.7km per side.
Yep, we're in the realm of portable holes and superscience here.
(Disclaimer : it's late, I'm tired, and I may have made a balls up of the calculations somewhere. Also, I rounded off at multiple stages, just to make life easier for myself, but it's likely to be in the ballpark, maybe.
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Now you'd really have a reason to yell at those kids to stay off your lawn. We'd need as much grass as possible, helping produce more oxygen.
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Originally Posted by Leandro
All attempts to communicate with it or destroy it fail miserably, and they don't leave until after they've thinned the atmosphere from oxygen so much that people are asphyxiating everywhere. The only way I survived into old age was by using electrolysis to make my own oxygen out of water, every day for the rest of my life.
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Originally Posted by Leandro
how much would the atmosphere need to be thinned before we couldn't breathe it anymore, can a single mothership do that,
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Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
"Lots" and "Not without Time Lord science making things bigger on the inside".
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Well how did they figure out the code for our air shield in the first place?
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Originally Posted by Leandro
But the important thing is: the Rikti are stealing our oxygen! You interdimensional thieves! Oh, I'm so starting a raid in the Rikti War Zone now... I feel like kicking Rikti rear.
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They told the guy who was illicitly playing MMORPGs on the main air shield computer that they needed his password to powerlevel his characters.
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Originally Posted by Veritech
Well how did they figure out the code for our air shield in the first place?
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Rikti superiority: Guarenteed.|
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Or just a working portal; they don't have to keep the stolen atmosphere in the ship.
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The only way I survived into old age was by using electrolysis to make my own oxygen out of water, every day for the rest of my life.
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That "screenshot" is pure awesome !
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Maybe some idiot is using his luggage combination, 1-2-3-4-5
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Well how did they figure out the code for our air shield in the first place?
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Originally Posted by Leandro
The only way I survived into old age was by using electrolysis to make my own oxygen out of water, every day for the rest of my life.
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You know whenever i see that pic i always think why dont atlas just shove the globe into the giant hole of the mothership . . . . . . .
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So I was sitting in my house minding my own business, when I read on the news that this giant spaceship had arrived on Earth. Sure enough, I look outside my window and there's this massive gray/green saucer floating in the distance, and it's sucking the atmosphere in. All attempts to communicate with it or destroy it fail miserably, and they don't leave until after they've thinned the atmosphere from oxygen so much that people are asphyxiating everywhere. The only way I survived into old age was by using electrolysis to make my own oxygen out of water, every day for the rest of my life.
And then I woke up.
After the initial grogginess of thinking "hey, I can breathe without carrying around a cylinder of oxygen again!", I realized something. That was a Rikti mothership sucking out our oxygen!
So, after thinking "bloody Master of LGTF influenced my dream patterns" my brain started asking questions, such as how much would the atmosphere need to be thinned before we couldn't breathe it anymore, can a single mothership do that, would we still be able to lit fire and similar oxygen-consuming things after that, can the planet survive purely on wind/water turbine electricity if we can't burn anything, and about a gazillion other questions.
But the important thing is: the Rikti are stealing our oxygen! You interdimensional thieves! Oh, I'm so starting a raid in the Rikti War Zone now... I feel like kicking Rikti rear.
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