RE: Re: Re: Greetings and Nuclear Weapons.
Jerry Yen (momopi@mail.com)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:49:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Pumukl
Well... ships in LotGH seem to have limited shield capacity, at least enough
to halt energy attacks made from a long enough distance. These shields seem
to be focused forward, primarily, and I wouldn't hazard to guess as to how
effective they'd be at stopping an EMP.
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Shielding against emp is actually pretty easy, but, effectiveness would
depend on amplitude and frequency range of the em pulse.
There's also the question of production quality on the shielding. If
there's a small flaw somewhere, you're in trouble.
Instead of EMP, how about a nuke to compress mass beyond desnity required
for black hole creation, resulting in a singularity?
The resulting creation would dissapear instantly, and all mass that were
used to create it would be converted to energy (a la e=mc^2) and released as
gamma/neutrino burst.
The efficiency of a nuclear bomb is actually pretty low (below 5-10%),
versus a dissapearing black hole's efficiency is 100%.
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