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Post by The Astronomer on Feb 24, 2017 5:17:42 GMT
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Post by deltav on Feb 24, 2017 5:29:43 GMT
What? Beam me up Scotty.  Seriously, though. Coolness. |
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Post by The Astronomer on Feb 24, 2017 5:58:04 GMT
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Post by newageofpower on Feb 24, 2017 6:02:58 GMT
This should be treated as a bipropellant design; reacting Hydrogen with AntiHydrogen. AntiHydrogen should have some ludicrous 1GC/kg price ratio, unless we've discovered some insanely efficient way of producing antimatter.
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Post by The Astronomer on Feb 24, 2017 6:08:57 GMT
This should be treated as a bipropellant design; reacting Hydrogen with AntiHydrogen. AntiHydrogen should have some ludicrous 1GC/kg price ratio, unless we've discovered some insanely efficient way of producing antimatter. Might want to ask Qswitch to implement the bi-propellant feature into the black box engine. |
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Post by newageofpower on Feb 24, 2017 6:14:30 GMT
This should be treated as a bipropellant design; reacting Hydrogen with AntiHydrogen. AntiHydrogen should have some ludicrous 1GC/kg price ratio, unless we've discovered some insanely efficient way of producing antimatter. Might want to ask Qswitch to implement the bi-propellant feature into the black box engine. Also, AM containment might be mindblowingly hard. |
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Post by caiaphas on Feb 24, 2017 7:07:06 GMT
How are you accounting for the stupid amounts of gamma flux you're going to be getting from it?
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Post by The Astronomer on Feb 24, 2017 7:09:14 GMT
How are you accounting for the stupid amounts of gamma flux you're going to be getting from it? Wait, couldn't god's radiation shield blocks them all? |
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Post by caiaphas on Feb 24, 2017 8:14:52 GMT
How are you accounting for the stupid amounts of gamma flux you're going to be getting from it? Wait, couldn't god's radiation shield blocks them all? Lithium-6 blocks neutron flux, not gamma. You need high-density stuff like lead or tungsten to block gamma. |
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Post by The Astronomer on Feb 24, 2017 8:22:20 GMT
Wait, couldn't god's radiation shield blocks them all? Lithium-6 blocks neutron flux, not gamma. You need high-density stuff like lead or tungsten to block gamma. Guess I'll try depleted uranium/lead shield. Thanks for the info. |
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Post by n2maniac on Feb 25, 2017 6:00:29 GMT
This should be treated as a weapon and/or missile. Because, honestly, do you have any idea of its lethal blast radius when that fuel tank annihilates?
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Post by The Astronomer on Feb 25, 2017 6:16:07 GMT
This should be treated as a weapon and/or missile. Because, honestly, do you have any idea of its lethal blast radius when that fuel tank annihilates? Each tank carries one kiloton of antimatter. =90,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules for each tank. =9*10 22 joules For comparison, Sol energy output per second is 3.846×10 26 watts =3.846×10 26 joules/second AKA, every second Sol produced enough energy for 4273 and 1/3 of these tanks. |
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Post by n2maniac on Feb 25, 2017 6:45:02 GMT
This should be treated as a weapon and/or missile. Because, honestly, do you have any idea of its lethal blast radius when that fuel tank annihilates? Each tank carries one kiloton of antimatter. =90,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules for each tank. =9*10 22 joules For comparison, Sol energy output per second is 3.846×10 26 watts =3.846×10 26 joules/second AKA, every second Sol produced enough energy for 4273 and 1/3 of these tanks. Okay, fine, it is like 20 Tt TNT per tank. Interestingly, 4-5 tanks is similar to a famous mass-extinction event. Maybe a bad day at the factory making these is the cause of the cataclysm? |
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Post by The Astronomer on Feb 25, 2017 6:51:31 GMT
Each tank carries one kiloton of antimatter. =90,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules for each tank. =9*10 22 joules For comparison, Sol energy output per second is 3.846×10 26 watts =3.846×10 26 joules/second AKA, every second Sol produced enough energy for 4273 and 1/3 of these tanks. Okay, fine, it is like 20 Tt TNT per tank. Interestingly, 4-5 tanks is similar to a famous mass-extinction event. Maybe a bad day at the factory making these is the cause of the cataclysm? There is a reason why I'm trying to get into antimatter-catalyzed fusion interstellar. |
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Post by newageofpower on Feb 25, 2017 7:06:10 GMT
I prefer beam core. Efficiency > Everything else, nevermind minor trivialities like cost. Psh.
Plus, the name is much, much cooler.
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