Re: Energy Weapons
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:26 pm
with ATL-7 Anti-Tank Laser we jury-rigged a Universal E-Clip Recharger in Merc Ops into a backpack and connected it to weapon for our warrior borg to use.
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runebeo wrote:with ATL-7 Anti-Tank Laser we jury-rigged a Universal E-Clip Recharger in Merc Ops into a backpack and connected it to weapon for our warrior borg to use.
Darkechilde wrote:anarchclown wrote:Where have you found any references to the rifle actually firing laser? I assumed it wasn't a laser rifle but rather a particle beam or ion rifle or something else that might concievably have a kick?
Good point, it DOESN'T actually say its a laser. However, none of the other types of damage have any recoil as per canon, either. The only energy weapon that does have a kick is Plasma, and that can't be the damage type, as I can't believe Triax would make such a weapon when the vast majority of enemies they face are immune to fire.
EDIT: Upon looking at the description once again, it states that the nuclear power supply "boosts the energy drawn from the E-Clip to give the blast the power of a heavy, single barreled laser one might find on an armored vehicle". So, I vote laser.
anarchclown wrote:Explaining how plasma works really has nothing to do with Ion guns does it?
anarchclown wrote:And lightning throws people around because of the shockwave it creates not the electrocution itself. The shockwave that can be heard for several miles. Also known as thunder.
Darkechilde wrote:I said that plasma weapons provide a kick. But, that is merely following canon, not physics.
anarchclown wrote:Where have you found any references to the rifle actually firing laser? I assumed it wasn't a laser rifle but rather a particle beam or ion rifle or something else that might concievably have a kick?
SOUTH AMERICA 2 page 166
ATL-7 Anti-Tank LASER Rifle
TechnoGothic wrote:anarchclown wrote:Where have you found any references to the rifle actually firing laser? I assumed it wasn't a laser rifle but rather a particle beam or ion rifle or something else that might concievably have a kick?SOUTH AMERICA 2 page 166
ATL-7 Anti-Tank LASER Rifle
The Name of the Weapons says it all. It is a Laser weapon.
If it was a particle beam or ion beam they would have said Particle Beam Rifle, but they did not. Since the term LASER was used in the very name itself the writter figured the reader could figure out it was a Laser Rifle for Anti-Tank shooting. Silly Writter.
The Galactus Kid wrote:Let me reply to part of this, since it is really my mistake.
3)TX-SL13 Ultra Sniper Rifle
This is listed as a laser rifle. Since laser rifles have no kick (which I totally knew but which slipped my mind during the writing process) you can play this one of two ways. Either make it a hybrid energy beam that has a kick, or keep it as a laser weapon, remove the kick and make the penalties be from poor balance or something. Strong characters and borgs wouldn't have as many penalties. Personally I would slightly increase the damage to 1D4x10+10. I would also give it an additional +1 to strike when making an aimed (or aimed called) shot above and beyond what it gets when properly braced. When used with improved balance and custom grip, the sniper skill, the W.P.s sharpshooting and Energy Rifle, scopes etc, a trained sniper character could put a lot of hurt on some people.
TechnoGothic wrote:The ULTRA Sniper Rifle sound like a Burst or Pulse Laser weapon from what you posted. I dont have the book so I cant say.
Lasers no Kick. Even if Pulse.
Ion Electricy has no Kick until it Hits You.
Particle Beams should have Kick. In HU2, NB, they do have kick. In fact PB weapons in the SDC setting are so unweildly for Anyone they require a 12&higher to Just Hit a Nick. With 18-20 Direct Hits. That sounds like alot of kick to me.
Plasma. I see them having some, a Shotgun like kick at most.
Elthbert wrote:canonically speaking olny lasers are kickless. ion weapons particlebeams, and plasma ejectors should all have recoil. Ion weapons are firing blast of charged particles at high speed right, that should have a hell of a recoil. Plasma ejectors too should have some serious kick to them, assuming that the plasma ejector is just super heating the air in a chamber ( probably through compression) until it becomes a plasma and then ejects it forward. Particle beam weapons would also have a kick.
In my campaign P-Beams are continuious beam weapons and must be held on target momentarly for full damage, so recoil would indead matter.
Zer0 Kay wrote:A photon is a particle.
Zer0 Kay wrote:Elthbert wrote:canonically speaking olny lasers are kickless. ion weapons particlebeams, and plasma ejectors should all have recoil. Ion weapons are firing blast of charged particles at high speed right, that should have a hell of a recoil. Plasma ejectors too should have some serious kick to them, assuming that the plasma ejector is just super heating the air in a chamber ( probably through compression) until it becomes a plasma and then ejects it forward. Particle beam weapons would also have a kick.
In my campaign P-Beams are continuious beam weapons and must be held on target momentarly for full damage, so recoil would indead matter.
So you use ghost buster guns?
So if Ion causes a kick because it launches particles at near light speed... then why don't lasers? A photon is a particle.
Zer0 Kay wrote:TechnoGothic wrote:The ULTRA Sniper Rifle sound like a Burst or Pulse Laser weapon from what you posted. I dont have the book so I cant say.
Lasers no Kick. Even if Pulse.
Ion Electricy has no Kick until it Hits You.
Particle Beams should have Kick. In HU2, NB, they do have kick. In fact PB weapons in the SDC setting are so unweildly for Anyone they require a 12&higher to Just Hit a Nick. With 18-20 Direct Hits. That sounds like alot of kick to me.
Plasma. I see them having some, a Shotgun like kick at most.
Ah but I bet you that the particle beams from the SDC settings was influenced by the Ghost Busters Particle Thrower on the Proton Packs
How do you play plasma? Do you do it as the fourth state of matter or as an advanced napalm?
You do realize that technically all of these weapons (as long as your playing plasma as plasma and not napalm) are particle accelerators?
The Galactus Kid wrote:Zer0 Kay wrote:A photon is a particle.
Your mom's a particle.
sorry Zero...it was too easy.
Young Freud wrote:I've been looking into it recently, but ions cover, in itself, a wide range of effects that they could be a subclass of energy weapons by themselves. I think the most common class is the electrolaser, were lasers ionize a path through a medium to deliver a lightning-like charge. Or ion weapons could be firing ionized blue plasma bolts. Or ion weapons could fire ionizing radiation that strips electrons from matter. The only difference with the latter and particle accelerators is the choice of charged particles being thrown out (electrons).
Either way, they all have differing effects, as energy from an electrolaser would be hazardously conducted in water and cause displacement in air or water (which would cause a crack and recoil because of the excited air), but an ion radiator would silently deliver concentrated electrons at a submerged target, although it's path would have a substantial afterglow from Cherenkov radiation.
Benly wrote:As far as I can tell, lasers shoot coherent light and all other energy weapons shoot incoherent technobabble.
There is... there's really not a whole lot of effort at making non-laser weapons consistent with any particular kind of physical phenomena in this game.
The Galactus Kid wrote:Zer0 Kay wrote:A photon is a particle.
Your mom's a particle.
sorry Zero...it was too easy.
Young Freud wrote:I've been looking into it recently, but ions cover, in itself, a wide range of effects that they could be a subclass of energy weapons by themselves. I think the most common class is the electrolaser, were lasers ionize a path through a medium to deliver a lightning-like charge. Or ion weapons could be firing ionized blue plasma bolts. Or ion weapons could fire ionizing radiation that strips electrons from matter. The only difference with the latter and particle accelerators is the choice of charged particles being thrown out (electrons).
Either way, they all have differing effects, as energy from an electrolaser would be hazardously conducted in water and cause displacement in air or water (which would cause a crack and recoil because of the excited air), but an ion radiator would silently deliver concentrated electrons at a submerged target, although it's path would have a substantial afterglow from Cherenkov radiation.
Young Freud wrote:I've been looking into it recently, but ions cover, in itself, a wide range of effects that they could be a subclass of energy weapons by themselves. I think the most common class is the electrolaser, were lasers ionize a path through a medium to deliver a lightning-like charge. Or ion weapons could be firing ionized blue plasma bolts. Or ion weapons could fire ionizing radiation that strips electrons from matter. The only difference with the latter and particle accelerators is the choice of charged particles being thrown out (electrons).
Either way, they all have differing effects, as energy from an electrolaser would be hazardously conducted in water and cause displacement in air or water (which would cause a crack and recoil because of the excited air), but an ion radiator would silently deliver concentrated electrons at a submerged target, although it's path would have a substantial afterglow from Cherenkov radiation.
Benly wrote:As far as I can tell, lasers shoot coherent light and all other energy weapons shoot incoherent technobabble.
There is... there's really not a whole lot of effort at making non-laser weapons consistent with any particular kind of physical phenomena in this game.
Elthbert wrote:Benly wrote:As far as I can tell, lasers shoot coherent light and all other energy weapons shoot incoherent technobabble.
There is... there's really not a whole lot of effort at making non-laser weapons consistent with any particular kind of physical phenomena in this game.
Well I can't argue that the authors of Rifts are like most modern Sci-fi writers, they don't have much science in there but I don't think that the weapons are that much outside ofthe realm of actual possibility, and they are discribed vaguely enough to allow thier discribed effects to fit real possibility, at least on the whole.
Zer0 Kay wrote:Elthbert wrote:Benly wrote:As far as I can tell, lasers shoot coherent light and all other energy weapons shoot incoherent technobabble.
There is... there's really not a whole lot of effort at making non-laser weapons consistent with any particular kind of physical phenomena in this game.
Well I can't argue that the authors of Rifts are like most modern Sci-fi writers, they don't have much science in there but I don't think that the weapons are that much outside ofthe realm of actual possibility, and they are discribed vaguely enough to allow thier discribed effects to fit real possibility, at least on the whole.
? What effects? Damage? I can make a dirt gun make sense that way. If they want it to be more "realistic" they should give them additional affects. Ion guns messing with electronics, particle beams causing micro explosions in hard targets and totally f-ing up soft ones like a super shotgun with near superluminal birdshot.
plasma in a magnetic bottle would cause EMP damage and once release act like a super heated gas spreading a little rather than acting like a viscous liquid like napalm. The plasma itself should also be hazardous to electronics as it is highly conductive so moving across any exposed contacts would be like turbo charged water. Does anyone not know that water itself (pure H20) is not conductive? It is the same thing that allows water to boil that allows electricity to pass through it... the impurities. Lasers also should do more damage to hard targets than soft on criticals because lasers have been known to cause crystaline destabalization causing explosions instead of just melting.
Elthbert wrote:Zer0 Kay wrote:Elthbert wrote:Benly wrote:As far as I can tell, lasers shoot coherent light and all other energy weapons shoot incoherent technobabble.
There is... there's really not a whole lot of effort at making non-laser weapons consistent with any particular kind of physical phenomena in this game.
Well I can't argue that the authors of Rifts are like most modern Sci-fi writers, they don't have much science in there but I don't think that the weapons are that much outside ofthe realm of actual possibility, and they are discribed vaguely enough to allow thier discribed effects to fit real possibility, at least on the whole.
? What effects? Damage? I can make a dirt gun make sense that way. If they want it to be more "realistic" they should give them additional affects. Ion guns messing with electronics, particle beams causing micro explosions in hard targets and totally f-ing up soft ones like a super shotgun with near superluminal birdshot.
plasma in a magnetic bottle would cause EMP damage and once release act like a super heated gas spreading a little rather than acting like a viscous liquid like napalm. The plasma itself should also be hazardous to electronics as it is highly conductive so moving across any exposed contacts would be like turbo charged water. Does anyone not know that water itself (pure H20) is not conductive? It is the same thing that allows water to boil that allows electricity to pass through it... the impurities. Lasers also should do more damage to hard targets than soft on criticals because lasers have been known to cause crystaline destabalization causing explosions instead of just melting.
I fail to see why ionic weapons would do anything special to electronics, ion weapons would work like and acid, not like a lightning gun.
Plasma in a "magnetic bottle" is kind of silly, how do you make a magnetic bottle which will hold in 10000k plasma but breaks on impact with a target. Plasma bolts should be moving at tremendoes speed and have short ranges, and still should probably be a continuous stream of plasma rather than a bolt to prevent disipation.
I think P-beams are pretty much discribed like that. Very nasty, vaporizing weapons.
Lasers should be discribed as leaving the nasty wounds that they would I agree but I don't think that they need extra damage on a crit, the vast majority of the time lasers simply cut and do nothing more.
discription of the effects of a weapon is the role of the GM, and a subtle dscription differance is all that is needed.
an ion gun doesn't seperate ions it fires them so it wouldn't be like an acid.
A. I know you mean a magnetic containment field and my statment still stands, any field that would work would be so strong it would not break on impact.... lets not even addess the magical crap that would have to go on to have an unpowered containmentfield that flys through the air and stays together. No plasma, would probably use an ionizing lazer ahead of it and be in a stream.a plasma bottle is a magnetic containment field not a physical bottle plasma is slow. Fire... is plasma a lightning bolt is plasma created from the static discharge. The bolt didn't travel fast the discharge did and made the plasma. Plasma travels slow in comparison to a bullet.
and what do you think they do to their targets..... they deliver huge amounts of kinetic energy to the enternal parts of a target, but this is at an atomic level, so it is effectively thermal energy. You deliver a 100 MJ of heat into a persons body it is going to be vaporize parts of them, and probably cause an explosion as that vapor tries to escape that container we call skin.a particle beam isn't a vaporizing weapon it accelerates particles and launches them out as a cohesive beam its an energy shotgun
total myth, lasers would almost never cauterize, the water in the surrounding tissue would boil and explode and the laser would simply cut the target anyway. Now that said i always discribe lasers as punching nice neat little holes in the targets and have other discription for other weapons.... but that is not because thats what they would actually do.Lasers don't leave nasty wounds they cauterize the wounds making a reduced critical on living things but in optimal damage conditions (critical hits) on hard targets they'd harmonize with the crystaline structure shattering them at a molecular level resulting in some impressive explosions... but not atomic.
Elthbert wrote:an ion gun doesn't seperate ions it fires them so it wouldn't be like an acid.
Your right, it fires a load of ions ( most likely cations for the reasons mentioned above) at significant speed and probably heat at a target, striking with both kinetic and thermal energy, but you are wrong about how the ions themselves would work. The valence shells of the ions in the blast would be desperate to balance themselves and literally rip the electrons out of the molecular bonds of the target, metals give up electrons easily so they would be particularly vulnerable, this would make the molecular structure of the target collapase thereby doing damage... pretty much exactly like an acidA. I know you mean a magnetic containment field and my statment still stands, any field that would work would be so strong it would not break on impact.... lets not even addess the magical crap that would have to go on to have an unpowered containmentfield that flys through the air and stays together. No plasma, would probably use an ionizing lazer ahead of it and be in a stream.a plasma bottle is a magnetic containment field not a physical bottle plasma is slow. Fire... is plasma a lightning bolt is plasma created from the static discharge. The bolt didn't travel fast the discharge did and made the plasma. Plasma travels slow in comparison to a bullet.
B. if it isn't 10,000k or so it is useless, and now it woudln't vaporize everything around it, plasma is not very dense, that limits its thermal transfer. Pretty much the stuff would have to be touching you to do it.
C what makes you think plasma would be slow, here is absolutly no reason for it to move slow. In fact, moving slow would make it almost useless... plasma would need to hit its target in a small fraction of a scond to do any significant damage unless it was a constant stream.... see above suggestion on plasma weapons.and what do you think they do to their targets..... they deliver huge amounts of kinetic energy to the enternal parts of a target, but this is at an atomic level, so it is effectively thermal energy. You deliver a 100 MJ of heat into a persons body it is going to be vaporize parts of them, and probably cause an explosion as that vapor tries to escape that container we call skin.a particle beam isn't a vaporizing weapon it accelerates particles and launches them out as a cohesive beam its an energy shotguntotal myth, lasers would almost never cauterize, the water in the surrounding tissue would boil and explode and the laser would simply cut the target anyway. Now that said i always discribe lasers as punching nice neat little holes in the targets and have other discription for other weapons.... but that is not because thats what they would actually do.Lasers don't leave nasty wounds they cauterize the wounds making a reduced critical on living things but in optimal damage conditions (critical hits) on hard targets they'd harmonize with the crystaline structure shattering them at a molecular level resulting in some impressive explosions... but not atomic.
Zer0 Kay wrote:Elthbert wrote:an ion gun doesn't seperate ions it fires them so it wouldn't be like an acid.
Your right, it fires a load of ions ( most likely cations for the reasons mentioned above) at significant speed and probably heat at a target, striking with both kinetic and thermal energy, but you are wrong about how the ions themselves would work. The valence shells of the ions in the blast would be desperate to balance themselves and literally rip the electrons out of the molecular bonds of the target, metals give up electrons easily so they would be particularly vulnerable, this would make the molecular structure of the target collapase thereby doing damage... pretty much exactly like an acidA. I know you mean a magnetic containment field and my statment still stands, any field that would work would be so strong it would not break on impact.... lets not even addess the magical crap that would have to go on to have an unpowered containmentfield that flys through the air and stays together. No plasma, would probably use an ionizing laser ahead of it and be in a stream.a plasma bottle is a magnetic containment field not a physical bottle plasma is slow. Fire... is plasma a lightning bolt is plasma created from the static discharge. The bolt didn't travel fast the discharge did and made the plasma. Plasma travels slow in comparison to a bullet.
B. if it isn't 10,000k or so it is useless, and now it woudln't vaporize everything around it, plasma is not very dense, that limits its thermal transfer. Pretty much the stuff would have to be touching you to do it.
C what makes you think plasma would be slow, here is absolutly no reason for it to move slow. In fact, moving slow would make it almost useless... plasma would need to hit its target in a small fraction of a scond to do any significant damage unless it was a constant stream.... see above suggestion on plasma weapons.and what do you think they do to their targets..... they deliver huge amounts of kinetic energy to the enternal parts of a target, but this is at an atomic level, so it is effectively thermal energy. You deliver a 100 MJ of heat into a persons body it is going to be vaporize parts of them, and probably cause an explosion as that vapor tries to escape that container we call skin.a particle beam isn't a vaporizing weapon it accelerates particles and launches them out as a cohesive beam its an energy shotguntotal myth, lasers would almost never cauterize, the water in the surrounding tissue would boil and explode and the laser would simply cut the target anyway. Now that said i always discribe lasers as punching nice neat little holes in the targets and have other discription for other weapons.... but that is not because thats what they would actually do.Lasers don't leave nasty wounds they cauterize the wounds making a reduced critical on living things but in optimal damage conditions (critical hits) on hard targets they'd harmonize with the crystaline structure shattering them at a molecular level resulting in some impressive explosions... but not atomic.what type of ion engines are you working with, what power range? Remember these guns are using huge power loads, in the megawatt range and then compressing them into a bolt. but yes, except for the straight out kinetic hit of the bolt that is the only way ions would do damage, by addeding or subtracting electrons to a target and disrupting the molecular bonds.1. So ion motors will do that to things? Gee I've never seen that happen with the ion engines.right . i don't have time to address that i'll answer it later.2. A plasma bottle would likely have to be a massive EM bottle to be able to travel through the air and an EM bottle would break on anything that is capable of conducting electricity.How is say 3683 K? It's the highest melting point of any element and belongs to tungsten. At least for "SDC" materials. So are you When I say slow I mean slower than a bullet and saying that going slower than a bullet would make it useless then how do arrows work? How is plasma not very dense got to do anything with heat transfer. Again flame is plasma as is lightning or at least part of it and both of those can cause severe burns and they aren't anywere near 3683 K let alone 10000 K seems like plasma conducts heat just fine without touching.
Wow so much here. Short answer not hot enough... not to damage hardened materials, not at the density the plasma is going to have. Density is tremendously important for thermal transfer. A plasma could be a million degrees but if the density is low enough it wouldn't even burn your shirt. Thermal transfer comes from the collision of atoms/particles with other substances, if there aren't very many atoms to collide not much heat is transfered. Thats how it works. If plasma was moving as slow as an arrow it would lose a tremendous amount of heat to that great sink of heat we call the atmosphere. Also arrows , unless fired in mass or by suprise don't work that well, thats why we changed over to bullets.well i was typing with an 8 month old on my lap...sue me.3. "enternal" parts eh.4. So is that why laser scalpels are all messy with blood spurting everywhere? Oh wait... they don't.
You realize that laser scalpels are very low power.... and they do exactly what i said even at that power, ablation of soft tissue through vaporization of water in the target tissue is one of thier primary uses, look them up. Now scale that to a laser 2 or 3 thousand times as powerful.
Next your going to tell me that Radar's produce ionizing radiation and that there is no such thing is spacial attenuation of a radio signal and that you can't spin radiation.
Elthbert wrote:Zer0 Kay wrote:Elthbert wrote:an ion gun doesn't seperate ions it fires them so it wouldn't be like an acid.
Your right, it fires a load of ions ( most likely cations for the reasons mentioned above) at significant speed and probably heat at a target, striking with both kinetic and thermal energy, but you are wrong about how the ions themselves would work. The valence shells of the ions in the blast would be desperate to balance themselves and literally rip the electrons out of the molecular bonds of the target, metals give up electrons easily so they would be particularly vulnerable, this would make the molecular structure of the target collapase thereby doing damage... pretty much exactly like an acidA. I know you mean a magnetic containment field and my statment still stands, any field that would work would be so strong it would not break on impact.... lets not even addess the magical crap that would have to go on to have an unpowered containmentfield that flys through the air and stays together. No plasma, would probably use an ionizing laser ahead of it and be in a stream.a plasma bottle is a magnetic containment field not a physical bottle plasma is slow. Fire... is plasma a lightning bolt is plasma created from the static discharge. The bolt didn't travel fast the discharge did and made the plasma. Plasma travels slow in comparison to a bullet.
B. if it isn't 10,000k or so it is useless, and now it woudln't vaporize everything around it, plasma is not very dense, that limits its thermal transfer. Pretty much the stuff would have to be touching you to do it.
C what makes you think plasma would be slow, here is absolutly no reason for it to move slow. In fact, moving slow would make it almost useless... plasma would need to hit its target in a small fraction of a scond to do any significant damage unless it was a constant stream.... see above suggestion on plasma weapons.and what do you think they do to their targets..... they deliver huge amounts of kinetic energy to the enternal parts of a target, but this is at an atomic level, so it is effectively thermal energy. You deliver a 100 MJ of heat into a persons body it is going to be vaporize parts of them, and probably cause an explosion as that vapor tries to escape that container we call skin.a particle beam isn't a vaporizing weapon it accelerates particles and launches them out as a cohesive beam its an energy shotguntotal myth, lasers would almost never cauterize, the water in the surrounding tissue would boil and explode and the laser would simply cut the target anyway. Now that said i always discribe lasers as punching nice neat little holes in the targets and have other discription for other weapons.... but that is not because thats what they would actually do.Lasers don't leave nasty wounds they cauterize the wounds making a reduced critical on living things but in optimal damage conditions (critical hits) on hard targets they'd harmonize with the crystaline structure shattering them at a molecular level resulting in some impressive explosions... but not atomic.what type of ion engines are you working with, what power range? Remember these guns are using huge power loads, in the megawatt range and then compressing them into a bolt. but yes, except for the straight out kinetic hit of the bolt that is the only way ions would do damage, by addeding or subtracting electrons to a target and disrupting the molecular bonds.1. So ion motors will do that to things? Gee I've never seen that happen with the ion engines.right . i don't have time to address that i'll answer it later.2. A plasma bottle would likely have to be a massive EM bottle to be able to travel through the air and an EM bottle would break on anything that is capable of conducting electricity.How is say 3683 K? It's the highest melting point of any element and belongs to tungsten. At least for "SDC" materials. So are you When I say slow I mean slower than a bullet and saying that going slower than a bullet would make it useless then how do arrows work? How is plasma not very dense got to do anything with heat transfer. Again flame is plasma as is lightning or at least part of it and both of those can cause severe burns and they aren't anywere near 3683 K let alone 10000 K seems like plasma conducts heat just fine without touching.
Wow so much here. Short answer not hot enough... not to damage hardened materials, not at the density the plasma is going to have. Density is tremendously important for thermal transfer. A plasma could be a million degrees but if the density is low enough it wouldn't even burn your shirt. Thermal transfer comes from the collision of atoms/particles with other substances, if there aren't very many atoms to collide not much heat is transfered. Thats how it works. If plasma was moving as slow as an arrow it would lose a tremendous amount of heat to that great sink of heat we call the atmosphere. Also arrows , unless fired in mass or by suprise don't work that well, thats why we changed over to bullets.well i was typing with an 8 month old on my lap...sue me.3. "enternal" parts eh.4. So is that why laser scalpels are all messy with blood spurting everywhere? Oh wait... they don't.
You realize that laser scalpels are very low power.... and they do exactly what i said even at that power, ablation of soft tissue through vaporization of water in the target tissue is one of thier primary uses, look them up. Now scale that to a laser 2 or 3 thousand times as powerful.
Next your going to tell me that Radar's produce ionizing radiation and that there is no such thing is spacial attenuation of a radio signal and that you can't spin radiation.
Elthbert wrote:[quote="Zer0 Kay]
Congrats on the baby. Got four myself one turning 12 months here soon.
Plasma. Why does the heat only have to be thermal and not radiant? The plasma they use for plasma windows seems to be pretty dense to me, able to keep air in and space out.[/quote]
Thank you. She is number 3. number 2 will be three on tuesday.
Of course plasma is going to radiate heat, thats one of the reasons it has to be reasonably fast, but it isn't going to melt steel via radiant heat.[/quote]
Zer0 Kay wrote:Elthbert wrote:[quote="Zer0 Kay]
Congrats on the baby. Got four myself one turning 12 months here soon.
Plasma. Why does the heat only have to be thermal and not radiant? The plasma they use for plasma windows seems to be pretty dense to me, able to keep air in and space out.[/quote]
Thank you. She is number 3. number 2 will be three on tuesday.
Of course plasma is going to radiate heat, thats one of the reasons it has to be reasonably fast, but it isn't going to melt steel via radiant heat.[/quote][/quote]
but the sun's surface is less than 10000K! Are you telling me that if a piece of metal mate it through the sun's corona and just flew over the surface without touching it it wouldn't melt?[/quote]
Rogue_Scientist wrote:Zer0 Kay wrote:In this way I give some of the lesser used weapons of Rifts a reason for existing beyond... they're less expensive.
Nice run down.
Elthbert wrote:Zer0 Kay wrote:Elthbert wrote:[quote="Zer0 Kay]
Congrats on the baby. Got four myself one turning 12 months here soon.
Plasma. Why does the heat only have to be thermal and not radiant? The plasma they use for plasma windows seems to be pretty dense to me, able to keep air in and space out.[/quote]
Thank you. She is number 3. number 2 will be three on tuesday.
Of course plasma is going to radiate heat, thats one of the reasons it has to be reasonably fast, but it isn't going to melt steel via radiant heat.[/quote][/quote]
but the sun's surface is less than 10000K! Are you telling me that if a piece of metal mate it through the sun's corona and just flew over the surface without touching it it wouldn't melt?[/quote][/quote][/quote]
Actually, yes that what I am telling you . The corona of Sol is about 1,000,000 k and being in it would not burn you but don't take my word for it. Here is a nasa expert onthe subject.
In order to incinerate massive objects, a gas (or plasma, which contains electrically charged particles) must not only be hot; it must also be dense enough so that its heat makes a difference. The solar wind is a plasma. The corona (or the solar wind) at the location of the Earth features densities of about 1-50 hydrogen nuclei per cubic centimeters, whereas air that surrounds us is about 3x1019 (3 with 19 zeros) molecules per cubic centimeter. Because of the very low density, the heat of the corona is not even enough to heat the surface of a tiny spacecraft in any noticeable way. (Heat can, however, build up in spacecraft through its own electrical energy consumption and because of the Sun's light that the spacecraft intercepts. To stay cool, the spacecraft has to radiate that energy back into space. The particles of the solar wind or of the Earth's magnetosphere - both pretty hot when expressed in degrees - don't play a noticeable role in that heat balance. Their input is negligible compared with the Sun's light.)
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html#bfield
You can find that here.[/quote]
Rogue_Scientist wrote:Zer0 Kay wrote:In this way I give some of the lesser used weapons of Rifts a reason for existing beyond... they're less expensive.
Nice run down.