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Re: weapon calcs.
Posted By: Ape Man <hamiltod@usc.edu>Date: 3/9/04 1:17 p.m.

In Response To: weapon calcs. (johnconstantine)

: I have another question in particular: On pg. 283 of "Fall of
: Reach", Nylund stated that the SMAC round travelled at "point
: four-tenths the speed of light".
: This doesn't make much sense. Did he mean .4c or .04c? I have assumed thus
: far that it was a typo and he meant .4c since the Covenant ships are so
: extremely tough, especially since it took the 'Commonwealth' 90 Archer
: missiles, 2 MAC rounds, 1 Shiva nuke and a squad of Longswords to cripple
: (not destroy) a Covenant ship (1/3 it's size no less). I would say that's
: roughly the equivalent of 5 Teratons (roughly).

Do you have any idea how fast .4c is? The amount of energy required to accelerate a mass as large as a MAC round to .4c almost instantly would be insane, and the UNSC would have to be INCREDIBLY STUPID to decide to use that energy for a simple projectile weapon; it would do a lot more damage if they just used it for a battery of lasers (that's a lot of lasers...) or some other sort of emissions-based weapon.

.04c it is.

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Replies:

weapon calcs.johnconstantine 3/9/04 5:13 a.m.
     Re: weapon calcs.Ross Mills [subnova] 3/9/04 5:22 a.m.
           Uh. "Point four", not "Point oh four" *NM*Ross Mills [subnova] 3/9/04 5:23 a.m.
     Re: weapon calcs.Rith Kain 3/9/04 6:57 a.m.
           Re: weapon calcs.Ross Mills [subnova] 3/9/04 7:24 a.m.
                 Re: weapon calcs.Rip-Saw 3/9/04 7:40 a.m.
                       Re: weapon calcs.Dylan 3/9/04 2:06 p.m.
           Re: weapon calcs.HaloNater 3/9/04 9:42 a.m.
     Re: weapon calcs.Ape Man 3/9/04 1:17 p.m.
           Re: weapon calcs.Ain Soph Aur 3/9/04 2:35 p.m.
                 Re: weapon calcs.Ape Man 3/9/04 3:11 p.m.
                       Re: weapon calcs.Ain Soph Aur 3/9/04 4:08 p.m.
                       Re: weapon calcs.Alstrong 3/9/04 4:09 p.m.
                             Re: weapon calcs.Ain Soph Aur 3/9/04 4:21 p.m.
                       Re: weapon calcs.Rip-Saw 3/9/04 10:22 p.m.
                 Re: weapon calcs.Rith Kain 3/9/04 5:54 p.m.
                       Re: weapon calcs.Ain Soph Aur 3/9/04 6:11 p.m.
                             Re: weapon calcs.johnconstantine 3/10/04 2:49 a.m.



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