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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 29 Feb 2020

      Okay, let's say we solve the square cube law and build mecha. Are there any non-arbitrary reasons why tanks aren't better? If not, what are some bullsht reasons I can use for stories that aren't that absurd?

      47 replies 3 retweets 32 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl

      The square cube law is a pretty fundamental mathematical fact and if you've "solved" it that means we no longer live in the real world in a lot of ways that make it impossible to answer this question

      3 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      I guess one way to read this question is to imagine that we're making machines that are human sized and asking what the advantages and disadvantages are to having humanoid bodies vs human sized tanks on treads

      2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      But you keep coming back to the fact that we didn't invent human sized vehicles like that because we don't need to because we are humans and can just do those tasks ourselves

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      And the real life reasons we think of "vehicles" as being shaped a certain way in the first place is we built them to be bigger than us in order to carry us and therefore they have to distribute weight differently from us

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      Without getting too handwavy and Panglossian ("everything that exists is already the optimal way it should be"), humans and dogs and horses are pretty much the right shape for what they are (legs are much more versatile than wheels)

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      But cars and trucks and tanks are also the right shape for what they are (wheels and treads are comically easy to get stuck and useless for a human sized thing, but a tank-sized thing *has to have them* because legs would break at that level of weight)

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      An interesting historical note here would be to read HG Wells' "The Land Ironclads", which predicts the idea of tanks incredibly well in a time before gasoline engines were even commonplace The one thing he got wrong was failing to imagine the caterpillar treads

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    9. Orman‏ @LizardOrman 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      TIL Wells apparently really liked ironclads

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl

      I mean, they're tanks, but the word "tank" was a decade in the future

      4:34 AM - 29 Feb 2020
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        2. Orman‏ @LizardOrman 29 Feb 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

          I mean, both because he's using it as a metaphor for tanks, and because IIRC Thunderchild is a literal one

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
          Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl

          Oh yeah, from War of the Worlds Well, ironclads were pretty much the state of the art in cool military shit at the time It's also because that scene is supposed to be a pyrrhic victory for the humans and the Thunder Child beats the Martians by suicidally ramming them

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