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Re: Antimatter
Posted By: Slith	Date: 9/25/06 3:16 a.m.
In Response To: Antimatter *NM* (Raging Aura) No... Antimatter is far, far too dangerous for use in small arms. Accidentally damage it and KABOOM you're dead, your friends are dead, your platoon is dead, the ship is gutted, and anyone not behind some sort of shielding gets a large dose of radiation. [Probably a fatal dose.] To give you an idea of what kind of power we're talking about, 1 gram of antimatter [An american dollar bill weighs about 1 gram.] would give out about 180 terajoules of energy. That's around 43 Kilotons, or twice the size of the Hiroshima explosion. You really, really, really don't want to have antimatter around in a small arms combat zone. Though in reality you won't get quite that much, as some of the energy comes out has harmless kinds of radiation. So a better estimate: http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3x.html#antimatter "Example: Given a warhead with one gram of antimatter, an optimist will say it will blow up with a force of 0.001 * 30073.1 * 1.0 = 30.1 kilotons and a pessimist will say 0.001 * 30073.1 * 0.1 = 3.0 kilotons."

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Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	Gryphonosiris	9/18/06 12:58 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	Frankie	9/18/06 1:06 p.m.
It really is spiders, isn't it? Blue spiders! *NM*	Recon#54	9/18/06 1:18 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	Document	9/18/06 1:24 p.m.
Well, that just takes the fun out of it Frankie... *NM*	Gryphonosiris	9/18/06 1:34 p.m.
ORLY?	Peptuck	9/18/06 1:47 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	ShortRoundMcfly	9/18/06 4:02 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	Omega	9/18/06 5:10 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	UrsusArctos	9/18/06 11:26 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	jdogmoney	9/18/06 5:49 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	Kiloh Ekim	9/18/06 8:44 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	jdogmoney	9/18/06 11:50 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	UrsusArctos	9/18/06 11:19 p.m.
Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?	Darth Troocuda	9/24/06 3:51 p.m.
Re: solid energy physics	Wado SG	9/18/06 2:42 p.m.
*Brain explodes*	Gryphonosiris	9/18/06 2:52 p.m.
Re: *Brain explodes*	Wado SG	9/18/06 3:20 p.m.
Fevered speculation	yakaman	9/18/06 5:29 p.m.
Re: Fevered speculation	Wado SG	9/18/06 5:38 p.m.
Re: Fevered speculation	Wado SG	9/18/06 5:52 p.m.
I KNEW we'd get around to killing cats eventually. *NM*	Louis Wu	9/18/06 7:09 p.m.
The only Shroedinger's Cat explanation I ever got:	jdogmoney	9/18/06 7:33 p.m.
^^ Funniest thing I ever read. *NM*	Vlad3163	9/18/06 7:47 p.m.
Wait, that was the wrong one...	jdogmoney	9/18/06 7:52 p.m.
FTW Travel?	Wado SG	9/18/06 8:38 p.m.
Re: FTW Travel?	Document	9/19/06 6:35 p.m.
Re: I KNEW we'd get around to killing cats eventua	Stuntmutt	9/19/06 3:43 a.m.
Re: I KNEW we'd get around to killing cats eventua	Narcogen	9/19/06 3:53 a.m.
Discount card?	Louis Wu	9/19/06 8:33 a.m.
Re: Discount card?	Raging Aura	9/24/06 11:16 p.m.
Re: Fevered speculation	Document	9/19/06 11:15 a.m.
Re: Fevered speculation	Black Guard	9/24/06 11:27 p.m.
Re: solid energy physics	Hikaru-119	9/18/06 3:19 p.m.
Re: solid energy physics	Wado SG	9/18/06 3:26 p.m.
particle accelerators	Wado SG	9/18/06 4:29 p.m.
Re: particle accelerators	jdogmoney	9/18/06 6:19 p.m.
Re: particle accelerators	Wado SG	9/18/06 6:50 p.m.
Antimatter *NM*	Raging Aura	9/24/06 11:13 p.m.
Re: Antimatter	Slith	9/25/06 3:16 a.m.