... How far do you want it moved? And how big is the planet (Jupiter probably won't move very quickly, but it should be quite comparatively easy to make...
... Tying the idea to photovoltaics isn't thinking big enough. Efficient electrolysis will work with any power source. The same technology could be used to...
... Legitimacy is more or less meaningless as a practical concept in international relations. What's seen as 'legitimate' is entirely in the eye of the...
... OK, so you've got a natural disaster / act of God that can move a planet quickly without heating it too much. By the time you can move a star around like...
... "Look! It's the Minmei Attack of the UN Spacy! We're saved!" iWARSHIP RANDOM SHUFFLE SELECTED: Cruxshadows, "Winterborn." "...okay, we're doomed."...
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Aug 1, 2008 11:43 am
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... Those high-voltage transmission lines are run at those voltages for the express reason of letting them transmit lots of power with very *little* current....
David McMillan
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Aug 1, 2008 11:43 am
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... I suspect the voltages needed are only *relatively* modest, in comparison to the currents involved, but your point is valid. ... Isn't an explosive flux...
David McMillan
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Aug 1, 2008 11:43 am
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... So suck the kick out of Jupiter with a sail guided rock. -HJC...
Camera flashes indeed use big ole capacitors for, but they do even more than that. htat high pitched whine they make is because they use a VCO (voltage ...
... Absolutely. If you are an ancient one like me, the concept reminds one of the galactic patrol primaries from Doc Smith's LENSMAN series. In the novels,...
... Yes, I had the sensation of a strobe light going off *behind* my retinas. I had dismantled a camera strobe and was re-wiring it inside a toy replica of a...
... *physically* ... That ... that ... Terribly inefficient, though, compared to chemical rocket missiles. A missile bank similar to a modern day VLS array...
... We're talking Lensman here. Efficiency took a backseat to "cool". This same aesthetic is now more common in anime... I guess in a lot of ways, anime/manga...
Now, I hadn't been trying that I just wanted to see how it operated. I tore down a disposable camera and the flimsy piece of scotch tape over the cap contacts...
... A literary quibble that this tech doesn't seem very rocketpunkish - 'guns' were passe in the rocketpunk era, and mass drivers (the basic coilgun tech)...
... As total mass of the inner disk goes down, my guess is that you get *more* planets, each of considerably lower mass - each protoplanet clears out a...
... In the designs I've seen, the inductor is blown apart rather than crushed, but yeah. Well, the physical disruption is a side effect of the compression of...
... Hmm, that's odd. I had the vision of the brave rocket patrol men carrying their sturdy Colt Model 1911A pistols chambered in the every trusty .45 ACP, and...
... For no reason whatsoever, this reminds me of a small one-speaker portable stereo (a small "boom box" style) I once found for sale for $1 at a garage sale. ...
David McMillan
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Aug 1, 2008 5:54 pm
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... And, of course, cathode-ray tube TVs and monitors *act* like giant capacitors -- they can retain a much-more-than-lethal charge even after *days* of being...
David McMillan
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Aug 1, 2008 5:56 pm
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YEah, Just a note... A single discharge MAY not be enough... The charge density is such that it can actually take several minutes to dissapate even when...
... Hm! That actually sounds like some of the high-velocity gas guns I've heard of (usually used for "startup" velocity for prototype railguns, ironically...
David McMillan
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Aug 1, 2008 6:04 pm
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... I was thinking in terms of 'big' guns, rather than small arms. Though Heinlein generally described or implied beam hand weapons, with the smell of...
... That... would probably depend on the underlying technologies, wouldn't it? I mean, even these days, there's places for guns *and* for missiles (granted,...
David McMillan
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Aug 1, 2008 6:35 pm
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... missiles. A ... have ... Which aesthetic are you talking about? Macross loves missile banks (as well as innumerable other anime). Isaac Kuo...
... they ... more ... limited ... wouldn't ... Yes, but it's pretty hard to mangle plausible numbers into something where a coilgun makes any sense as a...
... Yeah, but they also love the One Great Big Gun That Kills Any Target With One Shot, which then requires lots of plot-related handicaps to keep it from...
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