Timeline for Hard sci-fi super weapons?
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| Feb 21 at 12:00 | comment | added | Pica | Imagine they dyson sphere laser fired, you see it fired, from a third system. Just a line, creeping ever forward at c, which is slow over interestellar space, towards the target, which can not escape and will never know. Dustmotes coming a glow, if alpha centauri fired on us, it would take 4 years to reach us - and be over in an instant.. the beam getting more visible as it penetrates the oort clouds | |
| Nov 22, 2021 at 20:57 | comment | added | stix | @ErdelvonMises At the amount of energy you're dumping into the planet, you will see radioactive decay as you will be forcing fusion of all kinds of atoms. You'll also see X-ray spalling, forced fission, pair production, etc... | |
| Oct 27, 2021 at 6:29 | comment | added | Erdel von Mises | @stix But you can simply reduce the speed to the 67% of the spped of light and get the same effects that half the nukes without the radioactive decay. | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 17:26 | comment | added | stix | With that much energy dumped into the planet, the bedrock cooling will take decades, maybe centuries. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 22:32 | comment | added | Jacob Badger | All the destructive power and none of the radioactive fall out to clean up so you can move your colonists in as soon as the bedrock cools. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 20:57 | comment | added | stix | Moving a 100 metric ton object to 95% the speed of light requires about 4.0x10^21 joules of energy. That's about the equivalent of 970,000 1 megaton nukes. Why not just drop half of the nukes on the planet instead? | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 4:48 | history | edited | Jacob Badger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2020 at 4:43 | history | answered | Jacob Badger | CC BY-SA 4.0 |