RE: RE: Re: Greetings and Nuclear Weapons.
Graeme Lennon (graeme@balefire.net)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:26:51 -0500 (EST)
Just to further complicated the whole issue, remember that our LoGH ships
have FTL capabilities, and thus must also have extremely efficient
particle shielding in general, or they'd get shredded by space-dust long
before they crossed the c-barrier.
This is, of course, presuming that they don't have some crazy warp
ability. Ah well. I actually like the way LoGH just ignored the whole FTL
issue, rather than trying to explain it with some bizarre technobabble and
just blowing our suspension of disbelief.
> From: Graeme Lennon
>
> They have drugs to help deal with those 'mental pictures', you know.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I'm sniffing my keyboard as I type.
>
> Anyway, regarding your original question -
>
> 1. Based on current theory, a 50 MT nuke would have est. 3 mile "total
> kill" (vaporization) blast radius in outer space.
>
> 2. The exloding debris, travelling at fast relative velocity, would
> probably shread ships parked nearby.
>
> Consider, a small ball bearing travelling at typical orbit velocity (Earth)
> can punch a hole right through an armored satellite skin.
>
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