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Mass of the Death Star I

Posted: 2004-08-27 03:23pm
by StarshipTitanic
I searched the board but it returned every thread with the words "Death" "Star" and "mass" in it, so that didn't help...

Posted: 2004-08-27 03:43pm
by SirNitram
Nearly impossible to determine. We don't know the mass of the majority of the materials, the amount of armour, etc. The best we can do is use the mass-equivalent of the energy it pumps out.. Except that too is not accurate(Hypermatter's complex mass doesn't have a proper density).

'Heavy' is probably best.

Posted: 2004-08-27 04:36pm
by Ender
Dry mass is very conservatively in the 1e18 kgs range. However, its required ejecta and reactor mass would have to be numerous orders of magnitude greater (solar masses worth even). But as Nitram points out, it is complex in form, so we can't really estimate it. You might try based off its lack of recoil and conservation of momentum, but complex matter means that that might only be the case when it has to deal with that kind of reaction force and not typical.

Posted: 2004-08-28 04:21am
by Sarevok
These calculations were done in the simple windows calculator so they are not very accurate.

Let's assume the Death Star has the average density of a known heavy metal like mercury.

Density = 13000 kg / per meter cubed.

Pie = 3.14

Radius of death star in meters = 160 / 2 * 1000 = 80000 meters

Volume of a sphere is 4 / 3 * 3.14 *rE3

4 / 3 * 3.14 * 80000

= 2.6555E15 kg .

Of course the Death Star will be heavier than this since it probobly has section made of superdense matter like neutronium or hypermatter.

Posted: 2004-08-29 12:21pm
by Caboose
You guys know that Brolly would kick the the unliving crap out of the Death Star I & II, but the Enterprise could own Brolly.


P.S. Brolly is from the 8th Dragon Ball Z movie. Watch it to witness his power.

Posted: 2004-08-29 12:35pm
by Lord Revan
Caboose wrote:You guys know that Brolly would kick the the unliving crap out of the Death Star I & II, but the Enterprise could own Brolly.


P.S. Brolly is from the 8th Dragon Ball Z movie. Watch it to witness his power.
By do mean Enterprice NCC-1701(-#)? :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Posted: 2004-08-29 12:37pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
Lord Revan wrote:By do mean Enterprice NCC-1701(-#)?
Just ignore him. He's either being very stupid, or trolling, and on his very first post, no less. Could be a record.

Posted: 2004-08-29 12:41pm
by Lord Revan
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
Lord Revan wrote:By do mean Enterprice NCC-1701(-#)?
Just ignore him. He's either being very stupid, or trolling, and on his first very post, no less. Could be a record.
Yeah if he truly mean ST Enterprise, he should be ignored since he's even worse then Stamos (thats probaly a record).

Posted: 2004-08-29 01:20pm
by consequences
Caboose wrote:You guys know that Brolly would kick the the unliving crap out of the Death Star I & II, but the Enterprise could own Brolly.


P.S. Brolly is from the 8th Dragon Ball Z movie. Watch it to witness his power.
*Bzzt* Wrong fanwhore, there is no proof that the vast majority of DBZ attacks use DET to destroy their targets. As such you have no evidence that the energy level they can output would in any way harm the DS(and my terminology sucks, oh well).

Besides which, wrong forum dickcheese, this shite belongs in Fantasy(As in the Fantasy that DBZ is a decent show).

Posted: 2004-08-29 01:32pm
by Ghost Rider
Caboose wrote:You guys know that Brolly would kick the the unliving crap out of the Death Star I & II, but the Enterprise could own Brolly.


P.S. Brolly is from the 8th Dragon Ball Z movie. Watch it to witness his power.
Thank you for posting in the wrong forum with nice blantant illogical fanwhoredom.

You can move to Fantasy where Nitram will take fine care of you and we'll get to avail ourselves of the final part of the Site's Motto.

Posted: 2004-08-30 07:48pm
by Praxis
Caboose wrote:You guys know that Brolly would kick the the unliving crap out of the Death Star I & II, but the Enterprise could own Brolly.
You're absolutely right.
The Enterprise could do some serious damage to the Death Star.
By ramming it :roll:

"Sir, I think we hit something small. I'm not sure."
"You might be right. I did feel a small bump a moment ago."