@lugeasilver:
I think Doflamingo is just being really arrogant. He probably isn't that familiar with Fujitora's abilities and thinks little of him as he hasn't seen him do much of anything. Hell, Doflamingo thought that his crew+him would roflstomp the strawhats and the rest of the people on Dressrosa but he was clearly wrong about that too. Just because someone is confidant/arrogant doesn't mean their words have any weight or meaning to him. Untill I see Doflamingo start slapping admirals out the way I find it literally laughable to think he could take any of them. Even on his best day.
Law is no match for Doflamingo.
Yet, he would have taken out Doflamingo without even engaging him if he had stuck to the plan of enraging Kaido.
Doflamingo has said it before. There are always some ways to take out enemies too strong to take care of yourself.
The only reason Doflamingo's plan is failing in Dressrosa is because Plot demands so. All random incidents are in opposition to Doflamingo.
If he said he can take care of Fujitora, he must have some sort of plan to take him out without direct confrontation.
Most likely by using his connections in the World Government.
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@Jabberwok:
Vegapunk's home island was advanced because of his inventions, but I'm thinking straight-up futuristic. The reason it would have to be isolationist is because otherwise word of their super-advanced tech would get around. Imagine a reverse-Skypeia where the arc is mostly self-contained and based on pure adventure. The Strawhats are driven off course my a storm and suddenly run into an invisible object, which they soon realize is a cloaked floating(?) island. On land they tour a futuristic city full of impossible skyscrapers and amazing contraptions. As they explore the paradise they see people of all races living in harmony together, castaways from society and shipwrecked travelers, but they begin to notice odd behaviors that suggest a dark secret, like say the leaders of the country kill anyone they think doesn't fit in. Eventually they discover a powerful faction that wants to adapt their peaceful technology to subjugate the rest of the Grand Line. The Strawhats fight and manage to defeat them before leaving and swearing to keep the secret of the island. Robin or someone else probably finds out more about the Void Century while there too. Basically it's Atlantis/Arcadia.
It could be a standout arc for Franky, Chopper, and Nami. Usopp could get upgrades too.
That would be really great. Skypiea is still my favorite arc in the series and if there can be another such adventurous arc, I'm all for it.
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@Jabberwok:
Additional destruction is a side effect. His main goal was to get people away from the area where he was going to be fighting Sabo so that no one would see them form a truce. This was accomplished directly by having pieces of a meteor come crashing down and indirectly by the implied threat of even more destructive moves once the fight began in earnest.
Fujitora doesn't want to keep fighting Sabo because it's in neither combatants interest to waste time and energy fighting. Both are on hand to join the fight against Mingo if necessary and Sabo can go off and help people in the meantime. Fujitora then goes to wait on the king's plateau because
a) he needs to pretend to be exhausted from the fight like he claimed
b) it offers a better vantage point to monitor the progress of the fights
c) he's providing additional protection for King Riku, the symbol of the people
and d) he himself is a symbol of the Marines. By joining Riku on the plateau he displays the support of the Marines for the citizen's cause. This lends legitimacy to Riku's rule if the revolution should succeed and at the same time helps to repair the people's trust in the Marines by showing solidarity with them instead of Doflamingo.
Note that while Fujitora's views on the World Government are mixed, he believes in the Marines and their goal of protecting people.
Before fighting Sabo and adjourning to the plateau, Fujitora consolidated his forces and quickly restrained those who were affected by the Parasite. Since we have no evidence that Parasito has continued to infect new people, we can assume that the Marine forces were then functional, unified, and able to help/restrain others. So while Fujitora himself is acting as a symbol of the Marines and sitting with the king, the rest of the Marines were down below helping the civilians. His efforts to restore Dressrosa's faith in the Marines works on two fronts.
Tensai ka omae ?
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@Whackadoodle:
A deuteron is an atom of deuterium (the isotope of hydrogen which contains 1 proton and 1 neutron) which has been stripped of its electron.
Atomic ions are still atoms. And just as a sodium cation is still an atom, so is a hydrogen cation.
A deuterium atom is an atom. A deutron is not. It's a part of that atom, but not the atom itself.
Sodium cation is called an ion for a reason. It's because it's no longer an atom. Atoms are electrically neutral.
Once you add an electron to the Sodium cation, it's an atom again.
@Whackadoodle:
If I collide two atoms of deuterium together at the appropriate relative velocity, I will get an atom of helium.
I'm not an expert in Nuclear physics, but I'm pretty sure you will get a Helium ion rather than an atom. You can prepare the atom from the ion.
But I don't think nuclear reactions result in the formation of an atom in itself.
@Whackadoodle:
By your reasoning, many atoms are already made up of smaller atoms sticking together, no matter what.
How so? By my reasoning, you first have to split an Atom in it's constituent fundamental particles.
These particles(neutrons and protons) are then merged to form a larger nucleus. Which is then combined with electrons to make a new bigger Atom.
It's quite different from sticking atoms together. That would be a compound.
@Whackadoodle:
Really, though, atom just means it's the smallest component that retains the properties of the chemical element.
You are right.
And yet, a nucleus is electrically charged while the element is not. Thus, not retaining the same properties.