Do you think the world eventually recovered from the Great War?

peadar87 said:
But if we're talking actual science here, the Sierra Madre vending machines are impossible. And I don't think they fit in at all with the setting, so I headcanon them away as just some sort of pneumatic tube distribution system
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It is? I mean, yeah, of course, I was just thinking of the concept of combining molecules into a complex object (Ex: Burger, snack food, etc.) would be possible in the future, though I have to agree in terms of size, that a machine as small as the Sierra Madre Vending machine would have no way to break down matter of an object (the Sierra Madre coin), and then re-assemble it into a complex object. The amount of energy to do this would probably be the size equivalent of that prototype fusion generator everyone's talking about. Maybe even bigger.
 
Zerginfestor said:
It is? I mean, yeah, of course, I was just thinking of the concept of combining molecules into a complex object (Ex: Burger, snack food, etc.) would be possible in the future, though I have to agree in terms of size, that a machine as small as the Sierra Madre Vending machine would have no way to break down matter of an object (the Sierra Madre coin), and then re-assemble it into a complex object. The amount of energy to do this would probably be the size equivalent of that prototype fusion generator everyone's talking about. Maybe even bigger.
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It's just incredibly thermodynamically unfavourable. I mean, in theory it could be done, we can just about manipulate individual atoms and molecules with things like optical tweezers, we could probably assemble something using that. It's getting those atoms in the first place that would be crazy. Uranium has an energy density of 80,000 GJ/kg when you split its atoms. Going by that, making the right atoms for just 1lb of Salisbury steak would release 40,000 GJ, which is enough to power the average home for over 600 years! (Or alternatively, about 60% of the yield of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima). All that energy has got to go somewhere, most likely into blowing up the entire Sierra Madre.

At a certain point it makes more sense just to use a factory
 
peadar87 said:
It's just incredibly thermodynamically unfavourable. I mean, in theory it could be done, we can just about manipulate individual atoms and molecules with things like optical tweezers, we could probably assemble something using that. It's getting those atoms in the first place that would be crazy. Uranium has an energy density of 80,000 GJ/kg when you split its atoms. Going by that, making the right atoms for just 1lb of Salisbury steak would release 40,000 GJ, which is enough to power the average home for over 600 years! (Or alternatively, about 60% of the yield of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima). All that energy has got to go somewhere, most likely into blowing up the entire Sierra Madre.

At a certain point it makes more sense just to use a factory
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OH GOD I forgot the Sierra Madre coins are broken down at first, which splitting atoms from their bonds can cause a shitton of energy, as well as snapping them together! "Hi! Yes, I would like a Salisbury Steak with a side of 'WHAT THE FU-BOOM!' " "5 Sierra Madre Coins, please!"
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Haha, imagine that as an alternative ending. The first time you use the vending machines and you wipe the Sierra Madre of the map.

"The hard part is letting g... never mind."
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Haha, killing you for using the vending machines? That is exactly the sort of move I'd expect from a DLC that penalises you for passing speech checks!
 
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