Rome vs Japan

[Narukami]

This discussion may be real fun for someone, and indeed I've actually read most of the passages, but I fear it is very little scientific. So to be true to the spirit of this fun off-topic thread it is best to leave out any claims to be making, or attempting to make, a scientific discussion. Several of you are very knowledgeable, but that does not make the discussion less arbitrary. The scenarios of a roman Japanese confrontation are completely fantastic (in the sense of fantasy).
Indeed you may draw conclusions one way or the other but you have no way of supporting your claims by any realistic evidence what so ever. You choose the evidence you like, taking it arbitrarily out of context, forgetting the risks in doing so, make up a scenario that suites you best, and then claim to have done a scientific argument? It might be quite fun, but I fear it is not scientific at all.

Outside of a time machine, I fear you are right, but it sure is fun. It's kept this up for six pages now!

Travis

True enough Goffredo, this discussion is quite arbitrary and fantastic and ultimately unprovable.

However...

As TLC points out, it has been fun.

And as we have already disposed of our other celebrity death matches (Superman vs The Hulk, King Kong vs Godzilla, Pee Wee Herman vs Herman Goering) let us return to the old favorite: The Katana vs The Machine gun.

Now Magnus tells us that the oft told story of the katana cutting through a machine gun is just that -- a story.

Use this link for an interesting essay of the hype surrounding the katana.

http://www.thearma.org/essays/hype.htm

But how about a 50 cal M2 machine gun firing at a katana? Will the katana survive? Is it sharp enough to cut those 50 cal rounds in half?

Try this link for some interesting video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sHTJAKN-5k


:wink:

Narukami