You HAVE to swing a hammer.
Pfft. Just because you and ita aren't creative enough to try a straight jab to the bridge of the nose with the top of the "T" of the hammer doesn't mean nobody else is, either.
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Sean K - Aug 06, 2004 1:51:50 pm PDT #2316 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2004 1:53:04 pm PDT #2317 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sean, you keep insisting that a wild swing with a knife is as bad as a wild swing with the hammer.
I respond:
1. Straw man. Why are you swinging the knife? I could contend that the hammer is obviously a worse weapon because when you poke someone with it, it doesn't hurt as much as when I poke someone with a knife. But it wouldn't be useful data.
2. And you're wrong. The wild swing with the hammer is harder to control with the same amount of musculature because of the extra weight of the hammer, a tool designed for momentum.
I got nothing else.
Jesse - Aug 06, 2004 1:56:06 pm PDT #2318 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sean, are you one of those people who chokes up on the hammer and then wonders why the nail won't go in? Momentum is the main thing about hammers. Otherwise you could just use a rock to get nails in wood.
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2004 1:58:33 pm PDT #2319 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
are you one of those people who chokes up on the hammer
Ah -- thank you for using that word, Jesse. It triggered another explanation -- you're automatically choked up on your average kitchen knife, because of where their centre of gravity is located. And if you use a hammer conventionally, you're unchoked.
Is there a physicist in the house? With diagrams? There need to be pictures now, I can feel it.
Sean K - Aug 06, 2004 2:00:35 pm PDT #2320 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sean, are you one of those people who chokes up on the hammer and then wonders why the nail won't go in?
I can hammer a nail just fine. An intruder is not a nail, and calls for unconventional application of the hammer.
Think outside the box, people!
Jesse - Aug 06, 2004 2:02:37 pm PDT #2321 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But if you're hanging on to the head of the hammer, you might as well be using something that doesn't leave you with a foot of unused handle. Frozen spinach, or something.
Allyson - Aug 06, 2004 2:12:50 pm PDT #2322 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Is there a physicist in the house?
I can give you several choices.
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2004 2:14:34 pm PDT #2323 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can give you several choices.
None of the funky plasma guys. I need people who do stuff with actual mass. Ask them about centres of weight, and the momentum generated when your centre of weight is further out along the spoke.
Ta!
Katie M - Aug 06, 2004 2:14:49 pm PDT #2324 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
You do understand they're not going to be used as demonstration objects, right?
Allyson - Aug 06, 2004 2:30:44 pm PDT #2325 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
The physicists all tossed the whole physics portion out and agreed that maximum carnage is done with a knife. A hammer? You have one chance to get it right. Easier to disarm, as there's no sharp edges to have to contend with when an assailant comes at you. They can just grab the head and take it away. Also, in a demonstration, it took considerably more effort for me to brain Nathan in which he could see and block the upswing of me trying to reach his forehead, than it was for me to use the weight of my body to drive a sharp object into his gut. He can't block that without getting cut.
Nathan can smush my brains easier, as the hammer is coming down, and gravity is helping out with the whole deal.
Which doesn't really answer the question, and also, he was just microwaving an aluminum pan to heat up some pasta, so, there's that.
I'll go ask about the center of weight thingy.