Roguevictory wrote:Interesting.
Don't ask me how they work. The guy who wrote that has some general ideas, but it's really all hand waving.
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by kzt » Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:39 pm | |
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Don't ask me how they work. The guy who wrote that has some general ideas, but it's really all hand waving. |
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by namelessfly » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:36 am | |
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Weber was actually learning from our discussions of diffraction limitations!?!?!?
I would expect that lasers at shorter wavelengths would be more efficient at converting ship power into beam energy. Grasers which I assume are gamma Ray wavelength lasers could be focused into a narrower beam allowing higher energy densities at longer ranges. The gamma rays would also pentane deeper into a ship's armor, vaporizing more mass per unit area and thus generating more impulse loading for a given energy. Grasers would probably overpentrate a target as small as a missile and thus inflict less damagefora given amount of energy. I would note that the RMN and GSN ships mount far more PDLCs that seem to be more powerful than earlier systems. These would negate the advantage that lasers have over grasers for missile defense and thus make an all Graser armament more practical.
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by Michael Everett » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:02 pm | |
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RFC does indeed pay attention to what we come up with, examples being The Great Resizing and modifying how the Grav-Pulse Comm works. Of course, occasionally he can't help but have some fun at our expense, especially when we try to poke fun at him first.
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by namelessfly » Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:17 pm | |
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Hopefully RFC will respond to my input by providing us with another shower scene featuring Abby Hearnes.
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by KNick » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:08 pm | |
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Only in your dreams Nameless. Only in your dreams. _
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by KNick » Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:12 pm | |
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But if he does, I want video footage of your reaction. Not a selfie. Not a couple of seconds. I want a full two minutes of you with your jaw on the floor with your tongue hanging out. _
Try to take a fisherman's fish and you will be tomorrows bait!!! |
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by dreamrider » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:08 pm | |
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...And then I want 10 seconds of video after Mateo arrives at his door. dreamrider |
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by dreamrider » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:16 pm | |
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This! Certainly! It may be useful to note that at the scales, speeds, and the defensive / resistive technologies of the HV, beam fire is essentially light speed 'bullets', made of photons/other sub-a particles, smashing into armoring systems. Grasers provide a higher energy 'bullet', therefore more energy transfer per time unit of beam contact. dreamrider |
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by kzt » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:25 pm | |
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IIRC, the authors comment was something to the effect that that little article was quite possibly the most difficult thing he had ever written, just do to the complexity of the subject matter and the paucity of info on this subject. |
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by namelessfly » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:40 pm | |
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Actually; Weber got more than a few details correct. |
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