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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by Nyssa   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:13 am

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There is a device made of handwavium. Handwavium can store a near infinite amount of heat without radiating any.
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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by cthia   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:17 am

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Nyssa wrote:There is a device made of handwavium. Handwavium can store a near infinite amount of heat without radiating any.

:lol:

Indeed Nyssa. Yet that is intuitive isn't it? Handwavium, as in waving ones hand over ones bowl of soup, cools it.

Although, waving my hand over my face after seeing a beautiful girl never really cooled my hots for her.

:oops: :D :oops:

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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by Nyssa   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:29 am

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Handwavium, and related materials such as unobtanium and improbabilium, are the secret to Honorverse tech. There used to be thread on there properties, but I think it got lost.
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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by cthia   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:43 am

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Nyssa wrote:Handwavium, and related materials such as unobtanium and improbabilium, are the secret to Honorverse tech. There used to be thread on there properties, but I think it got lost.
They are very rare elements—that if mixed properly, applied sparingly and used wisely—counteracts the very plentiful element, unbelievium.

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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by George J. Smith   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:55 pm

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Nyssa wrote:Handwavium, and related materials such as unobtanium and improbabilium, are the secret to Honorverse tech. There used to be thread on there properties, but I think it got lost.


Nyssa,

That topic is here

http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1001&hilit=Handwavium#p20778
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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by cthia   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:19 pm

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I didn't come across unachievium, which denies the impossible acceleration of HH missiles.

But a reader has to supply his own respectium for the author's insistium of the medium, which is a result of his rightium.

Or to make it simpler, one can simply electium to bring ones own believium (BYOB) to the partium.

My spellchecker wants to know what the hellium is going onium and if I wanted to includium allium in memorium.

I simply told my spell checker to ignorium, and to blame it all on Trumpium, which is the high degree of having a tendency not to be able to spell a damn bitium.

He misspelled honor as honer.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/politics/ ... index.html

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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by Daryl   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 9:42 pm

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I won't do the maths, but in a universe where the energy can be found to accelerate a 6MT space ship at 500gs indefinitely, or a hand held pulsar can rapidly fire darts each of which has the energy of a 50 cal round (without breaking the shooter's wrist), I don't quibble about trifling things like waste heat. Presumably it gets dumped in where ever the energy came from.
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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by ldwechsler   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:08 pm

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Daryl wrote:I won't do the maths, but in a universe where the energy can be found to accelerate a 6MT space ship at 500gs indefinitely, or a hand held pulsar can rapidly fire darts each of which has the energy of a 50 cal round (without breaking the shooter's wrist), I don't quibble about trifling things like waste heat. Presumably it gets dumped in where ever the energy came from.



It's one of the mysteries of the universe like why it was only the guys in red shirts dying in the Star Trek Universe.

Have faith!
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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by phillies   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:58 pm

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Indeed,I believe there is textev for that. The heat gets dumped into the wedge.

Daryl wrote:I won't do the maths, but in a universe where the energy can be found to accelerate a 6MT space ship at 500gs indefinitely, or a hand held pulsar can rapidly fire darts each of which has the energy of a 50 cal round (without breaking the shooter's wrist), I don't quibble about trifling things like waste heat. Presumably it gets dumped in where ever the energy came from.
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Re: Cooling down the Honorverse
Post by Jonathan_S   » Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:31 pm

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ldwechsler wrote:It's one of the mysteries of the universe like why it was only the guys in red shirts dying in the Star Trek Universe.

Have faith!

And even more inexplicable it wasn't just anybody in red shirts, a chromatic accouterment shared by security and engineering; yet somehow the later managed to deflect the rapid onset mortality that persistently dogged the former.
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