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Hippity hoppity my aluminum spike removes all of your abilities! That's very out of the box build, very expected of you. Nice one. I don't think you could do it, because of identity differences. Breaths are keyed to your identity, while the spike (likely even the Kandra Blessings) are keyed to the donor's identity. Probably there are also like a dozen of different reasons why this wouldn't work, but identity is the main one. Just like compounding with Hemalurgy in Era 2.

I was talking about accuracy of currently known Cosmere, not predictions about the future. In this case the network is clearly lacking sufficient training, feed them data and they will always provide accurate information about published books and annotations. You're right about all WoBs, those would only confuse them. But even that AI won't be able to make good predictions about the future of Cosmere. But currently known Cosmere will be accurate.

Speed bubbles break a lot of physics. In this case, I think two options are possible: in the moment of physical contact between Misting and his opponent, his opponent is considered to be inside the speed bubble, making the punch be with normal force the speed bubble itself absorb the excess force (like it does with absorbing redshift), making the punch be with normal force Done some more digging, the second option is the true one, the bubble absorbs excess momentum: And welcome to the Shard

Feed them Cosmere stuff over and over again, and they will be 99.9% accurate. But AI is not a threat, AGI on the other hand is a different story, but we're not there yet. Edit: Wow I'm already Sentient Awakened Object? Right after Truthless? Now I'm fulfilled!

What do you mean why? They're "humans", they do need genetics exchange. They're different species, yes, but were made out of humans. Rashek didn't have to make necessary changes to their reproductive system. You're missing the point of why Koloss were changed and Kandra not. Kandra already were immortal and had a way to make new young generations to preserve their culture. Koloss didn't have that. Race that breeds true, like Mistwraiths. They're Kandra, they can alter their body in such a way to switch off functionality of their reproductive system whenever they want. Paalm was very close to TLR, from Coppermind: Because of how close she was to Rashek, she could pick up the way Rashak is making new Kandra Blessings at some point. Or figure enough to piece it together. Being away from Harmony allowed her to finally use it. I doubt Autonomy would just tell her how to make those spikes.

It's the idea of two powers melging into a single one. How those powers could work together or something like that. Very hard to say.

Kandra don't just organize their body into humanoid shape after giving them Blessings. It takes time, longer than for humans, for kandra to mature. And he is learning how to create proper tissue. I don't think Kandra reproduction leads to Mistwraiths. We have the WoB telling us that Kandra can give birth to a human baby (for now). If Kandra was able to recreate Mistwraigth reproductive organs, they could make young one of that species. But Kandra just don't reproduce, they don't have family and stuff like that. They breed

For all we know right now, you don't store investiture in nicrosilminds, you store the ability to use investiture, like Allomancy, Feruchemy, Surgebinding. For now, everything points out that you can't store Dor, Stormlight or Breaths in nicrosilminds. Cool build with Aethers, and I like F-zinc!

Not every binding point is suited for taking out powers from a donor. Right now we know that only 2 of them, one is the heart, can do that. 2 out of 200/300 binding points.

Magic system appears because of interactions between Shards and the planetary system. On the Roshar system there were 3 Shards present, and 3 planets that could be inhabited. Odium was involved with Ashyn, that's very likely where the magic came from. His interactions with Ashyn make the magic system appear. The other thing is that people on Roshar call every magic Surgebinding. Creating illusions is always Lightweaving for them, manipulation of connection is Bondsmithing for them, and teleportation is Elsecalling, even if those are not based on spren bonds. Fused have access to Surgebinding without any spren bond.

Not really, they don't have 10 km range. Urithiru is not a solid mountain. There are lots of windows and doors in its walls. It has lots of narrow corridors, and a shock wave would propagate through those tubes, killing everyone on its way. Yeah, but a hurricane spans for hundreds of kilometers across, while nuke propagate from the epicenter, hurricane is a low pressure system, while nuke create extreme high pressure, wind speeds in a hurricane can reach 300 km/h, shock wave in nuke is faster than the speed of sound (>1234.8 km/h). There is no comparison between a nuke and a hurricane. If you could compress a hurricane into a single point, then yes, this would be a valid comparison. But you can't. Moreover Urithiru is still made out of rock, not even a god metal. The Sibling operates by using fabrials and I seriously doubt they were made to handle such pressure and temperature. Soulcaster fabrial is gone, all nodes were destroyed. If rebuilt it would only protect the crystal column. I'm not saying that a single Fat Man bomb will destroy Urithiru - it won't for sure. It will cause some damage, but if multiple bombs at once strike Urithiru at the right place, you can cause so much damage to the structure, that the whole thing will just collapse under its own weight. That's the best nukes can do to kill as many people and Radiants as possible. It would be hard to achieve this, yes, very hard. Like I said, WW2 nukes are not the best tools for that. But they would still cause lots of damage.

You missed one important part about that building, the whole idea behind dropping nukes on Urithiru: "Everyone inside the building was killed instantly". Plus: "Because the explosion was almost directly overhead, the building was able to retain its shape. The building's vertical columns were able to resist the nearly vertical downward force of the blast, and parts of the concrete and brick outer walls remained intact." - A bomb detonated at the side of the Urithiru would do more damage to its wall, than directly above it. Don't target the base nor the top, but the middle sections instead. Fat Man had a fireball radius of around 200 m, reaching 3000-4000 degree celsius. Any piece of Urithiru within that radius is just gone. I don't think it was carved, more like the whole mountain was shifted into the shape of Urithiru. Presence of Windrunner patrols around the Tower would protect it well enough to prevent such an attack from occurring (Unless Shins start the war by surprise attacking Urithiru with nukes, catching them unprepared). But the travel of planes across Roshar might go almost unnoticed - there are simply not enough Windrunners to cover such a large area of sky, and Roshar have almost no real means of detecting planes outside from spotting them with bare eyes. That's why night would be the preferable time of attack, and that would even help with spotting Urithiru, as you know, it glows now. If not Urithiru, target Oathgates. Those would also be protected, but less so, maybe enough to destroy them and sever their logistic lines. But here we have the problem of accuracy back.

From: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/in-depth/ - "The Cassini spacecraft’s numerous gravity measurements of Titan revealed that the moon is hiding an underground ocean of liquid water (likely mixed with salts and ammonia). The European Space Agency’s Huygens probe also measured radio signals during its descent to the surface, in 2005, that strongly suggested the presence of an ocean 35 to 50 miles (55 to 80 kilometers) below the icy ground." It might be that Titan is hosting 2 unique and different environments so that different kinds of life can arise simultaneously. Like you said, water is abundant in the Solar System, especially in the outer layer. With the heating provided by the tidal forces, it's very likely that the conditions for life to arise are met on many of the moons in our neighborhood. And if that's true, if life in our Solar System is so common that it exists on multiple planets and moons, then how common must it be in the Universe? Every star system out there could host life (this makes me think about the implication of that for intelligent, advanced civilization - if life is so common that everywhere they go, there is life, why would they value it at all? They might just go to a new star system, find a suitable planet and not care at all for an ape-like species that calls this piece of rock their home - after all there are millions of planets like that so one less makes no difference). But the problem with the "habitable zone" is that we have little to no means of detecting exomoons right now. I don’t think we’ve ever confirmed one, and there are only a handful of candidates. To make it even more problematic, we have no way of looking if they can have life in their subsurface oceans. For now, the only way for us to determine if life on those exomoons can exist is to look at moons in our Solar System.

Well, yes, but not in this case, as these missiles combines what's best of every system, and there is a lot of components that neither Rosharans or Scadrians alone won't be able to make.

Methane solvent life would be good to exist - on Titan! Even bacteria would be cool to discover, as this is so close that we can study it. But I'm not too good with chemistry tbf. I don't think I am. And reading about it now kind of rings a bell, but it's not enough for me. Doesn't Titan have oceans of liquid water beneath the surface?

You don't drop the nuke just to kill one person (unless it's a Bondsmith), you drop it to destroy an important target and ensure maximum damage and casualties. Dropping it on the place where there are lots of Radiants will kill the majority of them. And that’s what I was talking about. Urithiru would be the best target to choose, but getting there and succeeding would be very hard.

Yes, it is, the Little Boy missed by "only" 240 m, and had a radius of total destruction of 1.6 km. But considering this, Urithiru is on a much higher elevation than Hiroshima, the bomb would be falling much shorter and it wouldn't drift that much because of that. Still not perfectly accurate, but they would destroy part of Urithiru. The gem room is below the ground floor, and the building itself is primarily stone. There would need to be a lot of restorative work done, but I don't think the tower is under any serious threat from a nuclear payload that could be made, the thing is an absolute fortress. You might as well try to nuke a mountain. Yes, that's why I said "few nukes" to soften it up. Mountain is solid, Urithiru is empty inside. And you don't need one to explode in the basement, just close enough for the blast wave to travel into the basement, or rocks would transfer powerful vibrations into the column. But I admit, WW2 nukes are not the best choice for that task. But if you manage to weaken weight bearing columns, the whole thing will just collapse under its own weight. And a very, very, improbably lucky strike can drop the nuke through the glass wall, right in the very center of the Tower, damaging the structure enough to collapse on its own. Do it Dambusters Raid style, like the RAF destroyed the German dam, but here without the bomb bouncing off the water, just straight into the window. And I don't advocate for the use of nukes in this conflict. I don't like using weapons of mass destruction in those scenarios.

Tapping speed will cause you to burn metals faster, so the process of leaching will be sped up for sure. But that's not a resonance, it's the nature of F-steel.

The energy itself, in the close proximity to the explosion, would for sure destroy the plate in a split second, and vaporize Radiant inside. Plate can crack just by falling from too high, hammers, Kaladin jumping etc, this is all energy. Nuke has a lot more energy than what plate experiences normally. Even the WW2 nukes. Radiant just needs to be close enough to the epicenter to be dead. Is it? Yes, it's powerful, but the B-29 has a range of 32k feets and almost 6k miles. Dropping a few WW2 nukes would still do a lot to Urithiru. I might not destroy it fully, but will deal such an amount of damage that it will cripple the Tower and decimate Radiants. Not to mention there is a very high probability that the blast wave would shatter the crystal column of the Sibling, which might cause even greater damage. Of course, the problem is to fly planes in the sky filled by Windrunners.

No, because you're using Anti-Investiture to make an explosion, react with normal Investiture. Both Investiture and Anti-Investiture are fully transferred into energy, and the blast wave doesn't affect spren in the Cognitive Realm. It might be expensive, but sometimes you need to make sure that that pesky, all powerful Bondsmith is dead You can make different types of missiles for targets of lower priority. Not every missile has to be a bunker buster type - you don't need that to kill Windrunners and Skybreakers in the air. To add more, use primar cube with F-iron to minimize the weight of the missile, and you can replace the Gravity Fabrial (if it also uses True Spren) with rocket fuel or some other effective option. You can also use an A-steel primar cube to push the rocket real hard from a special, metal launch pad, to save more fuel. Once you develop the system to seek users of Investiture and target them, you can develop lots of different types of missiles, fitting your need in a cheap, yet effective way.

Huh, It seems that true. Or Brandon missed to note that only spheres containing Voidlight were drained, not Stormlight. Or maybe she mixed both Stormlight and Voidlight into Warlight like she did later in ch 83 with mixing Odium and Cultivation rhythms (not lights)? However I think it just didn't tell us that only Voidlight spheres were drained. Venli thinks often that she asks for a lot of Voidlight and after that she isn't thinking that she used Stormlight.

I assumed he has normal Atium and the rest of his metals are fueled by Mist. But, he can not just burn and flare metals, he can be more precise in how much he burns it, so he can limit it. And Mist-burned Atium (assuming Atium is an alloy, and Mists are of Harmony) would make him experience the same thing that Elend saw when he burned Atium with duralumin - full look into SR (and being pulled mostly into SR), which would make Fullborn almost fully see and understand his future, including the very fight he is in. Also worth mentioning, by doing so Elend was able to strike Marsh into his neck/arm/side overcoming his Atium, and that was only because Elend chose to not kill Marsh, as he knew he must die for Vin to kill Ati. So burning Atium by fueling it with a lot of Mists might be far more advantageus than we think. But it might not be the case. Remember, god metals are the most concentrated form of investiture, Mists are less concentrated. Using Mists to fuel Atium might not be the best idea, as Atium is already the fuel for it, power doesn't come from Preservation nor Ruin directly, it's coming from the god metal. By using Mists you might end up with a weaker form of Atium or you would have to use more Mists to reach the same level. Which with infinite Mist here is possible. It's not about the source, it's about seeing the future. They see the future, possibly all futures of everyone in the rage (because of one source) and they can react to them, changing the future, which makes new shadows, to which others can react, changing the future ect. Shadows would still split normally, and that would make the whole thing a bit useless. Unless you have gunners/archers in the Atium cube, and they can see the future of their targets outside of its range, making them aim perfectly. Sentient awakened object here I come! Edit: WoB about burn rate:

In this case they're already dead, their spirit moved into the Beyond, detached from the body. Like the WoB I posted said, investing that body more would make it snap back into the original human form, as that's what the body's spiritual ideal is telling it to look like. YT spoiler streams, watch out for those and post a question on reddit/comment section. Or try to meet him in person. Easier said than done

Silicon-based life! But have we ever made non-carbon-based life in the lab? Is there non-carbon-based on Earth? Did we even manage to just put a bunch of proteins on the petri dish and create the right conditions for it to just spontaneously self-assemble itself into a primitive lifeform? I don't think so. So it's really hard to say what are the right conditions for carbon-based life to arise, not to mention non-carbon-based life. We know more or less what to look for in the case of carbon-based life, but how would we know how to look for something like a silicon-based life?

I don't think this would work. The Koloss strength is from their spikes, even if the body strength is more than what 4 spikes provide, this change is due to spikes and added spirit webs, take the spikes away, and you end up with regular humans again (dead likely). What would you steal is regular human strength, contaminated with Koloss identity of some sort (maybe or maybe not). But if you spike yourself with 4 spikes like that, you might end up like one of the primar Koloss created by TLR, more mindless and aggressive. Or not, after all you are stealing from mostly human spirit web. That's a question you should ask Brandon himself.