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Date Posted: 22:39:02 10/22/02 Tue
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In reply to:
Warspite
's message, "Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon)" on 09:46:02 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/Mathemat
>ical_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.
Or we could have one of those nasty little things that plauges even the best of Sci-fis, that would be an inconsistancy.
We have an example of at least hundreds of megatons yeild TLs, this comes from the fire from the Hapan Nova criusers causing veritble mushroom clouds of yoric coral vapor and fire erupting with turbolaser impacts on a Yuzhan Vong super battleship (not quite a world ship, but far larger than an ISD).
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