The Veteran Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 A warm welcome for agent Johnson... But what happens to Zagers intro? It was set up quite nicely after all and the sudden jump to Shades might be a bit confusing... Nice post though, hopefully we'll see a lot of these guys escapades as time goes by? I don't doubt it for a second Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankosha Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Note - Shades walked off after the meeting he was introduced after Zager's char. Feel free to move my post down one or Summat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 What I recommend is that you make a copy of your post, and then delete it from the forum. Even us admin types can't make posts in your name, you see, so that way you can post it up later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankosha Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Done. you can delete the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 *zaps it* Ok, all is well. Now a little more soldier chit-chat perhaps, then we can fire off to the next mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankosha Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Hopefully Tammy comes back so that the charm can reappear for a bit.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 I'm not sure she even knows she has it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankosha Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Actually Poison does, but Isn't Poison one of Tammy's Characters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Yes, that's my point. I'm not sure if (real) Tammy knows Poison has it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankosha Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Hopefully she remembers though.And someone posts before I die of Boredom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zager Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 You could send her a PM if you want to remind her, you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankosha Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Done. Hopefully she or someone else posts. On the idea of laser pistols, couldn't the beam just superheat large amounts of particles, making them move at superhigh speeds, high enough that air acted the same way smoke acts when you shine a flashlight through it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alitorious Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Err? You mean antimatter particles are not good enough for you? Antimatter being technically high-energy (when they come into contact with normal matter) and travels really fast (since they're so small, a little bit of kinetic energy goes a long way, or if they're antiphotons then they'll be lightspeed) and reacts with air a little bit to make a glowing beam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snikers Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 It would NOT react with air "a little bit". However fired the gun would die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alitorious Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Does turning on a laser pointer in a smokey room blind everyone? Do flashlights store photons in their batteries? The antiparticles are travelling in a straight line, right? How much air could a thin beam run into in a tenth of a second? (say, 20m shot, 2mm radius... what's the average density of air?) A lightning strike is likely to be much more powerful than these lasers, but you don't see craters around where the lightning landed, do you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 Er, actually, you do get craters sometimes... Don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alitorious Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/Psawhn/lightnincomic.gif Er... I dun' think so. Edit: To make myself clear: I've never heard of a lightning bolt leaving anything other than a... er... (Darn, forget the name of it.) It's sort of a glassy tube thingy... starts with 'F' I think... but basically lightning would only leave like a 2-4 cm hole in the ground. If there's pipes underground, it might plop a 2-4 cm hole in that thing. Edit#2: I think I've found myself an avitar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 Heheh, very good. Perhaps I'm thinking of when lightning hits a gas tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snikers Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 https://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromce...M-travel01.html 1 kg corresponds to 25,000,000,000 kWh of energy; 1 gr would be enough to supply energy to a medium-sized town for a whole day! So, how much do you think is in each shot? Let's say 1/1 000 000th of a gram. Given the values above, that would make 25 kWh by the antimatter alone - and keep in mind an equal amount of matter is converted to energy as well, so that puts it up at 50 kwH. Fifty. Kilowatt. Hours. Okay, I admit it. What I said before was wrong; firing this gun will not temporarily blind you and give you radiation poisoning. Firing this gun will flash fry the outside of your body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alitorious Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Ouch. You're right about that. You know, I've never actually done the math before and it shows. An annihilation of a 2mm wide corridor (20m long) generates something on the order of 10^13 kJ. If we try to say that some is converted to light and heat, we still get a crapload of energy. So you're right. Antimatter beams annihilating every single particle in the way of them are out. Hrmm... this got me thinking. What about antimatter EM waves? Waves have the advantage of just going around the small stuff in the way. Light diffracts around atoms and molecules. So why not make antiphotons that do this? They could just diffract around all the air in the way and most of them'd hit the solid object in the way. (Like a sectoid) What do our resident science-non-newbies (JFG and Zager) say about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 It would seem to me that we are talking about craft weapons, or even base defenses, as opposed to tactical equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Why is everybody still talking about lasers and particlebeams and antimatter? Somebody post something or I'll come and take out another member of the Eastern bloc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 I may post something tomorrow. I have less time then usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zager Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 FINALS! FINALS! FINALS! AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 Not so much finals as generic stuff to wrap up. Eesh, it's nearly christmas. I have to hit the shops soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now