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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #60 on: July 06, 2005, 09:17:58 AM »
and when all the air for a quarter mile catches on fire?

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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #61 on: July 06, 2005, 10:52:01 AM »
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!

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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #62 on: July 06, 2005, 11:54:35 AM »
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.

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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #63 on: July 06, 2005, 12:35:39 PM »
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?
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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #64 on: July 06, 2005, 01:37:42 PM »
i think it would look more like the ghostbuster's gear than anything else.

probibly in effect too...

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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #65 on: July 07, 2005, 12:08:25 PM »
Quote from: Pimp-Boy 2000 on July 06, 2005, 12:35:39 PM
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.
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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #66 on: July 07, 2005, 12:10:57 PM »
lol well, more than MELTING the surrounding electronics you mean...

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

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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #67 on: July 07, 2005, 12:19:24 PM »
yep.
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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #68 on: July 08, 2005, 03:47:38 PM »
but, let's assume they were heat shelded electronic components, but not EM shelded...

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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #69 on: July 09, 2005, 03:27:19 AM »
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.
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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #70 on: July 11, 2005, 07:59:18 AM »
so, you could jumpstart your car with it!

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Re:Ultratech Weapons Development
« Reply #71 on: February 01, 2006, 03:20:09 PM »
This is a post to keep the General Fiction area full of nice old things to read.

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