A lovely little DS energy blurb from an apparent Scooterite

Daltonator · Post by **Daltonator** » 2004-05-14 04:57am

Found this on ASVS.

mike3 wrote:Hi.

You all seem to buy the idea that the Death Star uses raw energy to
rip planets apart. Hoewver this has one very simple flaw: even if you
can pull a huge amount of energy (such as the often-cited 10^38 joules
needed to blow up Alder Aan) out of a magic hat, there's still one
problem: TRANSPORTING that energy. Once you've got that much energy,
it should rip your Death Star to shreds. To contain and focus all the
energy into that beam would require another huge amount of energy, to
contain that would require even more, etc. Therefore, DS does not use
direct energy transfer.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2004-05-14 05:13am

Of course that would be one reason blowing up the Main Reactor is such a good idea!

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2004-05-14 06:00am

I've read stories about ASVS in it's heyday. Wouldn't you guys have already strung that troll up by his toes or somthing?

Daltonator · Post by **Daltonator** » 2004-05-14 08:04am

Darksider wrote:I've read stories about ASVS in it's heyday. Wouldn't you guys have already strung that troll up by his toes or somthing?

Our ranks are thin, and I pulled this off of Google, so if there have been replies I haven't seen them yet.

Winston Blake · Post by **Winston Blake** » 2004-05-14 11:37pm

Once you've got that much energy,
it should rip your Death Star to shreds. To contain and focus all the
energy into that beam would require another huge amount of energy, to
contain that would require even more, etc

This is like saying tank armor must require huge amounts of energy to stop bullets, or that internal combustion engines must require a huge amount of energy to "contain and focus" the energy released by the fuel.

In other words, he's a fucking idiot. How does he think a tank fires its main gun? With Gridfire?

ali-sama · Post by **ali-sama** » 2004-05-15 11:10am

Winston Blake wrote:
Once you've got that much energy,
it should rip your Death Star to shreds. To contain and focus all the
energy into that beam would require another huge amount of energy, to
contain that would require even more, etc
This is like saying tank armor must require huge amounts of energy to stop bullets, or that internal combustion engines must require a huge amount of energy to "contain and focus" the energy released by the fuel.

In other words, he's a fucking idiot. How does he think a tank fires its main gun? With Gridfire?

wrong alanlogy.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2004-05-15 01:08pm

A better analogy is that the Battery holds all of the power to run a car. So does that mean that if hit by a bullet it will explode?

ali-sama · Post by **ali-sama** » 2004-05-15 04:44pm

Isolder74 wrote:A better analogy is that the Battery holds all of the power to run a car. So does that mean that if hit by a bullet it will explode?

a battery is not volotile enough to explode upon impact.

Also a note on the combustion engine. It is desinged to handle small repeative explosions. It does heaat up alot but no where enar what some of the exotic mateiral the engines of scifi hold.