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Subject: Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon)


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Date Posted: 09:46:02 10/22/02 Tue
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In reply to: Warspite 's message, "Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon)" on 09:10:02 10/22/02 Tue
 I've been looking for a good example to show what sort of damage we should expect to see from GT level energy impacts. I finally managed to find an estimate of the energy that was released when the asteroid hit that (may have) killed off the dinosaurs and most other life.

(http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/asteroid_hit.htm)

The asteroid impact is estimated to be something like 50 million MT.

If a turbolaser has 200GT per shot, and an SSD has just 250 turbolasers (there may be more), it would output 50,000GT per salvo. A Gigaton is 1000MT, so one turbolaser salvo from an SSD should give the same distructive power as the asteroid that wiped out most life on Earth (over 90%). Actually it should be more, since the asteroid was a single impact whereas the turbolaser could be spread out (spread out impacts are more effective and require less energy for the same effect!). As I said in other posts, we see in Darksabre, the SSD fires at least four "all turbolasers, full strength" salvos at Yavin's moon. Afterwards there are no environment effects, and little real damage. Even if that energy burrowed into the ground, the energy has to go somewhere, it cannot just disappear. We should see very large quakes and other effects at the very least.
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