... Ever fired it with the ejection port facing in towards your cheek? Gets you a jammed weapon and a burnt face. As for the plastic blanks - they'll jam...
... From: "jarrodlemire" <jarrodlemire@...> Subject: [sfconsim-l] Fwd: Re: Re-vamped essay on science fictional sidearms ... Is there a weapon which you...
... Thanks! Am I right in interpreting the gap between mu/rho and mu_en/rho as being wide angle scattered light? If so, then I'm a little surprised. It...
... triumvirs ... for ... from ... an ... You didn't say anything about restricting the parties to running less than three candidates. I don't find it...
... Pretty much. The quantity mu is the attenuation coefficient I(r)=I_0 exp(-mu*r) where I is the intensity of the x-ray beam after passing a distance r ...
... ahh .. i see .. i rarely used my weapon with the foregrip folded up .. and it is entirely possible that i never switched hands at the same time .. ... hmmm...
... Let's say it either doesn't need to be all that efficient, or it doesn't need to be all that tightly focused. Or maybe a little of both. ... The pumping...
... votes ... be ... with ... Yes I did. See my original post. I offered three variations on the concept. One limited it to one candidate per party, one to...
... True, there will be some vote splitting, particularly where candidates run on personal charisma (for a real world situation that works sort of like this,...
... I can't imagine anyone seriously recommending different weapons for training and service, but it probably happens. Many experts recommend acquiring skills...
OK, here's one for those of you somewhat more math-brained than me. I'll begin with three things I know: It is well known that, in one-dimensional space, if...
... No. The two formulas you describe work the same in any number of dimensions. Regardless of how many dimensions there are, a+b=c for a "triangle" with a...
... Thinking about how to take advantage of relatively efficient non-stealthable X-ray backscatter, it occured to me that the best configuration of the sensor...
... items ... anything ... for ... saying ... Of course they work in any number of dimensions, but a+b=c can always be reduced down to a one dimensional subset...
Maybe you're thinking of what happens when you generalize the pythagorean theorem to higher dimensions, but that involves more than 3 terms. What you have is:...
Time for a little math... Let's consider the laser-ship has a 20MW X-ray beam, being focused by a 100m diameter zone plate lens-ship. The lens-ship is 30,000km...
... The lens itself bounces back 1.44MW, making it a fairly bright target (and thus, making it hard to see through). ... Sadly, the backscatter may not be...
... focused by ... away. ... target ... As I noted in my last post, backscatter from the zone plate itself means it's best to fire the beam in pulses to...
... You will need multiple wavelengths, and you're somewhat vulnerable to the fact that any wavelength you can effectively focus _can_ be tricked, but UV...
... No, they're really not closely related at all. Fermat's Last Theorem doesn't have any directly relevant geometric interpretation here. -- Erik Max Francis...
Now, I don't trust marketing, so I'm wondering if this is even plausible: http://www.entechsolar.com/SPRAT05b.pdf Supposedly, they've already achieved 300W/kg,...
... Yes and no. Solar power has an excellent power to weight ratio, and with lightweight mirrors concentrating the light I can imagine 1 kW/kg. The problem,...
... solar arrays. ... with ... meters of ... from ... That's not so bad, at least for my baseline laser-ship cruiser. This is armed with a 20MW free electron...
... Hmmm... I'm not sure how close together they'd have to be (I'll leave that to someone else), but I think it would only work for fooling somebody who had...
I've been tinkering with my FTL system (actually it's more of a total re-work than a tinkering, but oh well...), and I'm now submitting the latest version for...
Wow. I'd never realized lightbulbs were so red... Incandescent bulbs are supposed to be fairly good blackbodies with a temperature of 2800K. That corresponds...
... This depends on the nature of the rocket drive, but generally yes they can. This assumes the enemy is only using passive sensors which lack sufficient ...
... Sorry, but MFT plumes are transparent. The thing to look for is the magnetic reconnection flashes as the two plumes hit. -HJC http://www.io.com/~hcobb ...
