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February 24th, 2001, 11:45 PM
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Re: Strategy guide?
Hey Spoo:
The formula you use in your sig is Einstein's famous formula. However, you're using it for two different things:
Nuclear Energy released by a mass
Kinetic Energy by a moving mass
I think thats two different things. It is energy, but it might not work the way you have it. (Unless I am forgetting some theorem from physics)
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February 25th, 2001, 01:29 AM
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February 25th, 2001, 02:25 AM
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Re: Strategy guide?
Instar & Spoo
Well the kinetic energy imparted by impact of a projectile is a fairly common formula for those of us interested in terminal ballistics.
KE = MV^2
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Kinetic energy is equal to Mass times (Velocity squared)
Einsteins famous formula (E=MC^2) is for the total conVersion of a mass to energy, as in nuclear warheads.
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February 25th, 2001, 02:30 AM
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Oh, yes, and as far as empirical data...
Having shot a fair number of ground squirrels, I can tell you they always come off second-best in a collision with an 80-grain projectile moving at roughly 3000fps  |
February 25th, 2001, 06:42 AM
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Re: Strategy guide?
thats what I thought
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When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat. The two will hover, spinning inches above the ground. With a giant buttered cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.
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February 25th, 2001, 06:54 AM
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Re: Strategy guide?
Instar and Possum possibly have limited imaginations. Myself, I have no trouble at all picturing Possum and Instar near the squirrel in question during the 50 Megaton BLast.
Awesome signature, Spoo!
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Re: Strategy guide?
Now, you realize that the squirrel isn't going to explode like that unless it tries to mate with an anti-squirrel.
Then you turn 2Kg of squirrel + almost 0 energy
into
0Kg of mass + 1.8 * 10^17 J of energy
Velocity has nothing to do with it. Nuclear reactions have nothing to do with it either.
The simple fact is that for every Joule of energy that is released, the mass of the system goes down by:
1/C^2
What the 50 megaton thing indicates, is that if you weighed your nuke, set it off, collected all of the remains, you would find that it weighs less than before, and that it weighs about one squirrel-mass less.
The sun loses a couple of kilograms each day, from all the energy it spews into space.
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