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[Ruski]

and when all the air for a quarter mile catches on fire?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Pimp-Boy 2000]

It'll shoot a very thin stream of plasma.

Besides, lightning is plasma -- heating the air to over a million degrees farenheit -- and it doesn't catch "on fire" except in the very immediate vicinity of the bolt.  A plasma stream would look just like a straight lightning bolt, more or less.

Wow, good catch though, Ruski... the superheatng of the air around a plasmathrower would cause a crack just like a lightning bolt and smell like ozone!

SWEET!  FRICKIN' SWEET!

[Ruski]

well, i guess it depends on how much plasma you intend to release.

if it's a stream one molecule in width... perhaps it would just look like a lightning bolt, and cause EMP dammage to everything within 10 yards.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Pimp-Boy 2000]

Does plasma cause EMP damage...?  I don't think so, else we wouldn't be able to create plasma....

There's a question for you, ROOTless: would a small stream of plasma create an Electromagnetic Pulse effect?

[Ruski]

i think it would look more like the ghostbuster's gear than anything else.

probibly in effect too...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[ROOTless]

There's a question for you, ROOTless: would a small stream of plasma create an Electromagnetic Pulse effect?

Wouldn't expect so, unless you use a lot more plasma than what you'd use for a flame thrower effect. I mean sure, it'd be an accelerated gas presumably positively eectrically charge, so you'd have both an E and a B field, but I oubt they'd be of an order of magnitude to affect surrounding electronics.

[Ruski]

lol well, more than MELTING the surrounding electronics you mean...

so the heat would be more of an effect than EM...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[ROOTless]

yep.

[Ruski]

but, let's assume they were heat shelded electronic components, but not EM shelded...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[ROOTless]

Well, even so.

Ofcourse the plasma carries a charge of it's own, and so is likely to disrupt electronics it comes into contact with, even if it does not disturb surrounding devices. Not sure how much though
Would depend on the density of the plasma.

[Ruski]

so, you could jumpstart your car with it!

-RuskiFace the pirate

[Ruski]

This is a post to keep the General Fiction area full of nice old things to read.

-RF