08-14-2012, 02:06 PM | #11 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Antimatter Plasma Torch fuelled by Water?
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As for the book, "[These] engines mix..."
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08-14-2012, 02:11 PM | #12 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Antimatter Plasma Torch fuelled by Water?
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08-14-2012, 02:14 PM | #13 | |
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If you fill the ship up with just water then you have a tank full of just water; you still need to buy the Anti-Matter, and the A/M is what runs you Millions of dollars for the couple of grams you'll need per ton of reaction mass it will be mixed into.
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08-14-2012, 02:14 PM | #14 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Antimatter Plasma Torch fuelled by Water?
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Read up on Antimatter please, Wikipedia for example. You can not mix Antimatter with Matter - it is not like Diesel fuel. It goes BOOM the moment it touches ANYTHING. And we talk total annihilation here. More than a thousand times more efficient than a nuclear explosion. Given that you have to keep the Antimatter in a magnetic field in TOTAL vacuum, what you think the refinery mixes in? ;) High school Physics and common sense have neither page numbers nor URL's, sorry. |
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08-14-2012, 02:20 PM | #15 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Antimatter Plasma Torch fuelled by Water?
Do you have the book so that a page cite will be worthwhile?
The book says, more or less, "These engines mix antimatter with matter" under the engine description. If you need more than that I suggest you look up the "REACTION ENGINE, TOTAL CONVERSION AND ANTIMATTER" description in Spaceships.
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08-14-2012, 02:24 PM | #16 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Antimatter Plasma Torch fuelled by Water?
I understand antimatter fine. You appear not to understand the issue -- It's about the rules, not the physics.
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08-14-2012, 02:25 PM | #17 | |
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Re: [Spaceships] Antimatter Plasma Torch fuelled by Water?
I have the book and I was unable to find a passage reflecting what you said.
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08-14-2012, 02:30 PM | #18 | ||
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Is it super hard to look up "REACTION ENGINE, TOTAL CONVERSION AND ANTIMATTER" in the index? and find out it's on page 23 Also, before you start arguing about what the rules say wouldn't it have been better if you had actually read them? EDIT: That sentence comes off as a bit snarky. However, I stand by it since Figleaf23 started out arguing about the rule and then asked for a page reference to the rules that were being discussed. If he doesn't know the page he obviously didn't read them.
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08-14-2012, 02:30 PM | #19 |
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Re: [Spaceships] Antimatter Plasma Torch fuelled by Water?
Antimatter-boosted basically means that you get a fuel tank of hydrogen, and a fuel tank of antimatter; this is clear from the description on SS23. In any case, simple grammar tells us that if you have "Antimatter-Boosted Hydrogen" and "Replace Hydrogen with Water", the result is "Antimatter-Boosted Water".
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