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Date Posted: 09:33:43 10/23/02 Wed
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In reply to:
The Divine Shadow
's message, "Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon)" on 22:39:02 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/Mathema
>t
>>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.
The inconsistancy would be ICS, since the rest of the evidence from the rest of the universe points to much lower yield numbers. :)
>
>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).
I would find a hundred (or more) megatons quite believeable. But a gigaton is a thousand megatons, and that is supposedly from just one shot. If each turbolaser was a gigaton, you wouldn't need a BDZ, any SW frigate could devestate a planet and wipe out most life in just a couple of salvos.
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