mikeroach113 wrote on 13. Oct 2007 at 18:33:
What did he say?
Well, after he deleted all of my comments from the game post board, he sent the followin PM:
<note: I don't think he had yet looked at the equations I posted when I wrote this.>
Quote:Arguing momentum isn't the same as inertia is pretty much the same as arguing that mass isn't the same as weight. Sure it isn't the same, but then it isn't really relevant to discuss differences when you're on earth the whole time regarding mass and weight. In a similar way, you're not going to change inertia without changing momentum. The 2 may be different, but the differences between the 2 aren't really that big; you can't have low inertia and high momentum or vice versa can you.
Anyway, I'm really done commenting regarding this and erased all these comments since it goes nowhere and you haven't really proved me wrong on anything other than perhaps the most minor of technicalities. Players get hurt all the time in football and with protection on, which is a sport made by tackling, and you're gonna tell me that it does little damage. Then you say you don't underestimate the human body because a thumb can break a collarbone. There's really nothing else for me to say, (especially considering you used an experience claim which doesn't even mean anything even if it is true due to how many people have experience doing things with poor quality) and please don't reply as it is an fyi if you were wondering why I erased the comments.
He's completely wrong about momentum and inertia. You have constant inertia, regardless of momentum. And inertia isn't even quantifiable.
His criticizes the jumpkick in Golgo 13 because at one point Golgo 13's extended leg makes contact with an enemy but no damage is registered. That's pretty silly, though, because the collision detection in the game is set up so that only strikes register as damage. Having one's leg extended is not a strike. Oh well. He then got on this whole thing about football (American) players flying through the air to tackle people, which is also stupid because that's only done in the movies or during pile-ups.
I also did make an experience claim because I used to be a Tae Kwon Do instructor and have experience breaking (and failing to break) boards with jumpkicks.
Earlier, he had started discussing logic and then immediately messed up at stating the contrapositive of a statement I had made. There is a formal name in Philosophy for that mistake, but I don't remember it at the moment.
As you can probably tell, it was a very strange argument.
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