#nuclear projectile

[evilhorse]

In the ship’s radio room, a strange and ominous message crackles forth…

[nyxgoddessofcandles]

Battletech dumb pirate weapon idea: "Jury Rigged Fusion 'Cannon' "

You know that extremely well-controlled fusion reactor in your 'mech?

yeah what if in a drunken fugue, a pirate siphoned a little bit of the *extremely violent fusion reaction* through most of the parts of a PPC that handle stabilizing the projectile, to produce possibly the least safe weapon they could that violates as many treaties and as much common sense as possible

...this would probably be a "built into the 'mech frame" type of deal, impossible to transfer to a different 'mech since it's not...modular at all?

[nixotene]

Since Diego can control any projectile what if he stopped the nuclear bomb apocalypse in s2 and sent the bomb into space instead?

It would’ve paralleled Klaus stopping the moon in the comics

Bonus: him sending the bomb into space blows up the moon and the world ends the exact same way

[mysticstronomy]

HOW TO DESTROY A BLACK HOLE??

Blog#460

Saturday, December 7th, 2024

Welcome back,

Black holes want to absorb all matter and energy in the Universe. It’s just a matter of time. So what can we do to fight back? What superweapons have been devised to destroy black holes?

Black holes are the natural enemies of all spacefaring races. With their bottomless capacity to consume all light and matter, it’s just a few septillion years before all things in the Universe have found their way into the cavernous maw of a black hole, crushed into the infinitely dense singularity. If Star Trek has taught us anything, it’s that it’s mankind’s imperative to survive against all odds.

So will we take this lying down?

Heck no!

Will we strike first and destroy the black holes before they destroy us?

Heck yes!

But how? How could you kill a black hole?

This… gets a little tricky.

For a black hole, any matter entering the event horizon is added to the mass. Shoot bullets at a black hole, and you just make a slightly more massive, slightly more dangerous black hole. Detonate a nuclear bomb inside the event horizon, and you only make the black hole more massive.

Fire your forward phasers at the black hole, and that’ll still make it even more massive. Swap those bullets in for lasers and black holes don’t care. Within the event horizon, energy and matter are one, and those very same black holes can convert that energy into mass. So all your projectiles and energy weapons inevitably just make it more dangerous.

What if we crashed a star into it? Would that fill it up, or burn it out? Nope. It would just gobble that star up, and go on with its business. If we smashed another black hole into it? Would that tear it apart? The cause is also the cure? Not even maybe. As soon as black holes get within each other’s event horizons, they’ll just merge into a more massive, and even nastier, meaner black hole.

Number 1, it’s time to bring out the big guns. Reverse the particle flow, flood the dilithium chamber with exotic particles and route it through the main deflector dish, and construct your own black hole out of antimatter. Then kamikaze this new antimatter black hole right into a the black hole you want to destroy. Would that do it? Would that solve our problem?

As you probably know, when you crash matter into antimatter, you get an explosion of pure energy. It’s the most perfect energy weapon we can envision. Unsurprisingly, this brings its own set of complications. It’s not entirely clear you’ve still have antimatter in your antimatter black hole. It’s possibly been converted into a regular flavour black hole.

Still, if you *could* crash an antimatter and regular matter black hole together, you would get an incomprehensible explosion. Converting that entire dense and gigantic mass into pure energy, as calculated by Einstein. As soon as you did, all that energy would be immediately converted… into more black hole.

Nothing, not even light itself can escape a black hole. That includes all your magnificent explosion energy from your antimatter impact. You wouldn’t even see it happen. You’d just end up with a black hole with twice the mass. And that might be just what it wants.

As we learned in a previous episode, we can extract angular momentum from a black hole. By dropping material into the event horizon, we can remove energy and slow its rotation. We can even bring it to a stop. So we can slow down its spin, but that won’t make it go away.

So, is that it, are we out of options? Good news, we have one last strategy, and it’s so crazy it just might work. According to Stephen Hawking, black holes can actually evaporate over enormous periods of time.

Virtual pairs of particles are constantly popping into existence all around us. Then they recombine in a flash and disappear from the Universe. When one of these particle pairs appears right on the edge of a black hole, one particle falls into the black hole, and the other is free to fly off into space. And here’s the amazing thing. This might actually reduce the overall mass of the black hole.

So, over an incomprehensible period of time, even the most supermassive of the black holes will have evaporated away into a harmless soup of particles. It turns out, in order to defeat the black hole menace, all we need to do is ignore them, and they’ll go away all on their own.

Originally published on https://www.universetoday.com

COMING UP!!

(Wednesday, December 11th, 2024)

"HOW ARE BLACK HOLES CREATED, AND HOW DO THEY GROW??"

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

So one of my favourite sci-fi weapons is simply just extremely overpowered kinetic weaponry.

Think rail guns and that sort of thing that simply accelerate a projectile to incredible velocities. Of course the velocities of non-existent fictional weaponry are up to the author writing them. But for the sake of analogy, let’s say you have a weapon that can accelerate a 1kg projectile to 2997925m/s. This is 1% the speed of light in a vacuum.

Now to help put this insane speed into perspective. Let’s imagine we have our cannon at earth at are firing it at the moon. It would take this projectile just over 2 minutes to get to the moon. That is 384,400km traveled in 2 mins and 8 seconds.

For added context, the largest artillery cannon ever made, The Paris gun, could fire a projectile over 130km with a muzzle velocity of 1640m/s. It still took the projectile over 3 minutes to reach its target.

Now back to our 1kg projectile traveling at 1% the speed of light. When it impacts the moon. It will deliver 0.45x10^13 Joules of kinetic energy.

The Hiroshima nuclear bomb delivered approximately 1.8x10^13 joules of energy

This means that our 1kg projectile hits with the punch of 1/4 of a city destroying nuclear bomb.

It’s truly incredible how much energy you can store in something just by making it go really fast. Which coincidently, is also really helpful when you are wanting to deliver that energy to a target in as short a period as possible.

[barbariankingdom]

On this day in 1953, the U.S. military test fires history's first nuclear cannon at Frenchman's Flat, Nevada. The gun, dubbed "Atomic Annie," lobs a 280-mm, 15-kiloton projectile seven miles.

[volterran-wine]

Vampire anatomy time! What would it feel like for a vampire to be hit with various projectile weapons? How much damage would be possible?

I feel like something like a stone slingshot would feel something like when your sibling flicks you hard in the skull with their fingers. Like, more irritating than painful.

A bullet might feel something like being punched with a tiny fist, like ow but not enough to cause proper damage.

But a canon. A canon might make a dent. Aim for a limb and you might be able to knock it off at close range, but at longer range I think it would be funny if they weren’t prepared and ended up getting knocked on their ass unexpectedly.

… has Corin pursued this line of questioning already? Perhaps with some curious but reluctant participants?

• — 𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 & 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬

I remember this line of questioning making me giggle, a lot.

Once again it depends on how you view the durability of a vampire. Within my writing I do see them as being much hardier, the venom crystallising and strengthening every muscle, tissue, bone and organ to keep them from being hurt. At the same time I do believe venom is quite flammable, so if that is applied to any human weapon they might injure more easily.

In the end I do not think vampires feel like solid rock, which means they can be injured by modern human weaponry to an extent. I do believe someone asked me if a nuclear bomb would work at some; the answer was yes.

There has definitely been a few vampires who have been knocked over due to a Round Shot from a cannon.

I can only imagine, that a vampire at some point in time, made the decision to test out if this new human contraption would hurt them. Probably stood themselves up at a far enough distance in some war, egged the humans on; and was unfortunately the first vampire to realise what a cannon would do (It was Afton on a dare from Demetri, Corin fired the cannon).

[guard-en]

guys i found this ice cold glass of milk just sitting on this here counter. didn't want it to go to waste so i so kindly and graciously dumped it over your head. you're welcome .also i think there's an angry swarm of rare milk-drinking bees that fell on the ground nearby

glimbo anons won't fucking hide your wretched oily fucking carapace from the absolutely pants shitting DNA rending protein scrambling consequences I'm about to nuclear projectile vomit onto your miserable soon to me nonexistence

[oywcalendar]

January 5, UC 0079 – 12:00 PM

EFSF vessels attack the hijacked Island Iffish and the Zeon fleet defending it. Having determined Jaburo as the operation’s target, Luna 2 launches a nuclear-armed fleet under Vice Admiral Tianem to intercept the projectile.

Tianem’s forces engage the Zeon fleet many times over the next few days, but structural reinforcements added to the colony during its conversion are enough to keep it largely intact at this point.

[kgn-004]

SERIAL NUMBER: "DLN-000" IDENTITY: "Proto Man/Blues" PRONOUNS: he/him NICKNAME: "PROTOTYPE" INFORMATION: "Even with an incomplete design, this robot exceeded his creator's expectations in a greater way he expected.

even thus his power is great, his core had a critical error that would make him die eventually. Even thus he had this error, he never let his creator fix his core, fearing that his character would be changed, so he disappeared into the outer world.

The infamous Dr. Wily found him, almost dead, and repaired his solar power reactor with a nuclear one." ABILITIES: [PROTO SHIELD]: Uses his loyal shield -the proto shield- for self defense and offensive moves, such as deflecting projectiles back to foes. [PROTO BUSTER]: Can be charged or not in 3 levels: proto buster[uncharged]: Just a single shot, such as his brother, "Megaman", causes low damage; proto buster[medium-charged]: Multiple shots at once, each shot causes the same damage as a single shot, but, consequentially, due to the fact that they've been shoot multiple times, they cause more damage; proto buster[totally-charged]: Fires a single shot, that causes great damage; [PROTO STRIKE]: Shots multiple charged shots quickly, that can cause high damage to foes. NOTE: can also copy weapons and slide whenever he isn't vulnerable. CONS: [WEAK STATE]: Unable to slide, use copied weapons and charge shots;

[FRAGILE]: Takes greater damage from foes. ID: "092890"

[biomic]

SHOOTING HOPPER1 LIKE A NUCLEAR PROJECTILE

[silverslipstream]

One Shot, One Kill

Nobody on Earth saw it—but then again, that was the point. If humanity’s telescopes had somehow been given advance warning, they would’ve seen a brief gamma flash in the constellation of Draco—a lit match against the interstellar background, a minor course correction which flared for a few seconds before dissipating. Other than that, the intruder streaking towards the Sun left no trail. Its anti-hydrogen tanks were empty, the magnetic coil of its main engine had lain dormant for decades and its electromagnetic emissions were nothing but ghosts of ghosts. As the craft barrelled from interstellar space into the far reaches of the Solar System, the volume of dust particles increased, ionising harmlessly against the craft’s immense shields. There wasn’t a force in the universe that could dissuade it from its chosen path. It had no way of slowing down, but that wasn’t the intruder’s concern. It wasn’t going home again.

Five light-weeks from Earth, still deep in the recesses of the Oort Cloud, the intruder’s payload broke into two halves. Another gamma flare pricked at the stars as the trailing half slowed its approach by an imperceptible amount—just enough to delay interception of its target by a few hours.

Deep in the gravity well of the Solar System, the intruder’s nine billion targets continued sleeping and waking, dreaming and planning, fighting and loving, heedless of the relativistic crosshairs painted squarely on each of their heads.

** Just a few scant seconds from arrival, the leading half of the intruder’s payload burst apart, revealing a field of eight hundred flechettes. These ‘flechettes’ were nothing more than inert bullets of metal, each weighing fifteen tons and small enough to fit within the typical living room. Traveling at 91.37 percent of light-speed, each fragment carried the explosive power of the world’s nuclear arsenals more than three hundred times over. A smattering of the projectiles were diverted to impact the scattered bases on the far side of Earth’s moon. For the briefest fraction of a second, the Moon was outlined in fire: the corona of a second sun, born in the daytime skies of Earth.

Just over a second after lunar impact, the first of the relativistic flechette-bombs entered Earth’s atmosphere, forty miles off the eastern coast of Indonesia. Earth’s atmosphere produced no resistance. It would’ve been like trying to swat back a nuclear missile with a napkin.

An intense spear of light descended through the air, clearing a tunnel of near-vacuum density through which the flechette plummeted. Thirty kilometers above the waters of the Indian Ocean, the air pressure became too much—the flechette dropped another couple of halting kilometers before detonating in a flash of searing blue light, so bright that its ferocious glare wiped away every shadow in Southeast Asia. The entire eastern hemisphere of the Earth was frozen in eerie blue light, the first frame of a grisly slide. Before the human optic nerve could even react, everything in the Indonesian archipelago—every skyscraper, car, sidewalk, apartment block and beachgoer—was instantly liquefied. The skyline of Jakarta began to slip like a melting oil painting, but before it dropped half a meter, it was blasted to disparate atoms, leaving nothing but carbonized streaks across burning soil.

More than seven hundred of its sister flechettes pierced the sky in unison. Millions of square miles of ocean began to steam. From Shanghai to Sydney, from Addis Ababa to Auckland, the side of the planet facing the onslaught was now a giant microwave oven. Six billion people were boiled to vapour in the blink of an eye.

By the time the second round of projectiles reached the Earth eight hours later, every free-standing structure on the planet's surface was already burning.

[beardedmrbean]

The IDF has released video showing Israeli troops uncovering a Hamas underground weapons-manufacturing facility in central Gaza located beneath the local civilian population.

The terrorist-operated facility contained workshops and hundreds of supplies for producing rockets, shells and grenades before it was destroyed by engineering troops, the IDF says. It was situated near the area of Zeitoun.

The IDF says the facility also had diving equipment intended for Hamas to infiltrate Israeli territory by sea.

Video released by the IDF shows troops navigating a long tunnel that leads to the facility. The IDF says the tunnel route contained several long-term living areas equipped with an oven, stove, food supplies, beds and offices used by the terrorists during the war.

The mission was carried out by the troops of the 252nd Division, soldiers from the 5th Brigade.

"Engineering troops, under the command of the Southern Command, in cooperation with the Yahalom Unit and the Ministry of Defense’s Engineering and Construction Directorate, located and dismantled the tunnel route, damaged weapons production capabilities, and thwarted another attempt by the Hamas terrorist organization to rearm," the IDF said in a statement.

The footage was released on the same day that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed a "tooth-breaking" response to the actions of both Israel and the U.S.

A top adviser to Khamenei, Kamal Kharrazi, issued the warning about Iran's nuclear capacity on Friday, saying that the country may be prepared to alter its policies on using nuclear weapons if the nation faces an existential threat.

"If an existential threat arises, Iran will modify its nuclear doctrine, we have the capability to build weapons and have no issue in this regard," Kharrazi told Lebanese media.

Israel also on Saturday claimed that its forces killed two Hezbollah commanders who were responsible for more than 400 strikes against them in October.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it "eliminated the terrorists Mousa Izz al-Din, the commander of Hezbollah’s forces in the coastal sector, and Hassan Majid Daib, Hezbollah’s artillery commander in the coastal sector" on Friday in the Tyre region of Lebanon.

IDF says Daib was responsible for "the projectile fire toward the Haifa Bay on Thursday."

[ryttu3k]

Thoughts on Space Babies and The Devil's Chord, in no particular order:

So we agree that the overarching storyline for this season is stories becoming real, yeah? Starts with invoking folklore at the end of the universe, is solidified with the Toymaker and his rules of play, used heavily in The Church on Ruby Road, and now children's fairytales and musicals? Fascinated to see where this is going!

Generally ridiculously camp and bonkers and you know what, I goddamn missed that. It had whimsy. It had space babies and musical battles! It was fun and ridiculous and just. Felt good, man.

And it also had far-future dystopias and reproductive horror and slow starvation and suffocation and refugees and a timeline of depression and nuclear winter simply to create the universe's biggest aeolian harp so, you know. Doctor Who is back, baby!

Space Babies

Okay the episode was pretty fun and, at times, sweet (they saved the monster!) but oy the CGI/voice acting for the babies was… not great XD;;

Rani reference!

RTD detractors: "Ew, fart jokes with the Slitheen, so immature." RTD, writing an elaborate snot joke that ends with a colossal projectile shart: "Watch this :D"

Okay yes the projectile shart to get the space station moving is one thing, but, uh. How is it going to stop? XD;;

The nanny filter made me giggle each time.

I actually had to go back and check because I was squinting at the readout trying to work out what's weird and somehow failed a spot check and missed the fact that it had started snowing. Good observational skills, self. Anyway, the snow is definitely a Message. (Is it snow? Like I agree that it's connected with the day Ruby was born, but is what's falling in the church scene snow to begin with?)

Do you. Do you think the butterfly can regenerate now.

The Devil's Chord

Oooh, a Pantheon! Love a Pantheon. There's mention of the One Who Waits, speculation on whether 'the Oldest One' was there the day Ruby was born, we already have the Toymaker -> Maestro line, so maybe we'll be getting others? Also, the way Maestro phrased something earlier was fascinating too - "the Lord Temporal who sealed my father in salt". The Lord Temporal. There's been a lot of references to how the Doctor isn't just a Time Lord, maybe they're part of the Pantheon too, as the personification of time? Regeneration and Time Lord society all coming from this base primordial being?

Anyway I goddamn adore Maestro.

I wonder if we'll get Susan at the end of this season? (See: last link of this section!)

July 2024? So that's a good six months of travelling unaccounted for! Big Finish just going 👀

Semi-related but Ruby saying she was born in 2004 gave me a Crisis. Rose was 19 in 2005 and born the same year as me. Yeah okay I am good with that! Martha born in either 1986 or 1984, yep, fine, all checks out. But now there's a companion who was born when I was already an adult how is that legal.

"He ripped my soul in two." Oof.

The sonic actually did something sonic!

"I thought it was non-diegetic!!" I have so many questions. The walls are getting thin. Yeah, especially the fourth! (Random thought: Doctor Who official ARG?)

Lennon-McCartney saves the world! (I still like Harrison's stuff better.)

Apparently Murray Gold had a cameo but I have no idea what he looks like so it went completely over my head lmao

Missed opportunity to play The Devil Went Down To Georgia or The Devil's Trill, although we did get Danse Macabre and Rhapsody in Blue (which I put on as soon as the episode finished)!

Fun fact about Danse Macabre: "The solo violin enters playing the tritone, which was known as the diabolus in musica ("the Devil in music") during the Medieval and Baroque eras, consisting of an A and an E♭—in an example of scordatura tuning, the violinist's E string has actually been tuned down to an E♭ to create the dissonant tritone." (People hated it when it premiered. It made them feel anxious. Which is... kind of appropriate.)

There's always a twist at the end~ (I thought it was little H.Arbringer, but who knows?)

[r0tt1ng-c0rps3-69]

YIPPEEE

The AMX-56 Leclerc is a tank that was first produced in 1992 by France, and it is considered (not just by me) to be one of the best combat tank designs, despite being untested. The tank is 9.87 meters (32.4 feet) long, 3.71 meters (12.2 feet) wide, and 2.53 meters (8.3 feet) high. It weighs around 54,500 kilograms (120,152 pounds), or about 60.1 tons. 

The main gun is the 120mm GIAT CN120-26/52. This gun has 5 main types of ammunition: 120mm Armour-Piercing projectiles, 120mm High-Explosive projectiles, APFSDS (Armour-Piercing, Fin-Stabilized, Discarding Sabot) rounds, and HEAT (High-Explosive, Anti-Tank) rounds. For actual shooting, it has a fully automatic fire control system, which is aided by nightvision, laser rangefinder, and FINDERS. FINDERS (Fast Information, Navigation, Decision, and Reporting System) provides a map that can show the soldiers current active targets, route planning, and figure out if someone is friend or foe. 

It's also unique because it has a 12.7mm GIAT M693 coaxial heavy machine gun, while coaxial machine guns are usually 7.62 mm. It also can hold 27 smoke grenade dischargers, which are part of the GALIX CVPS (combat vehicle protection system). Despite all the heavy machinery, it has a relatively low profile design, which makes it super hard to spot on the battle field!!

It can hold 40 120mm rounds total for the GIAT CN120-26/52. This ammunition is set away from the main seating and protected by blast panels, which makes sure the crew is safe in case the ammunition gets hit by an enemy. It can also hold 1,100 12.7mm rounds, and 3,000 7.62 rounds! 

To add to crew safety, it has an internal automatic fire suppression system, which detects and can put out fires. There's also a NBC system (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) to help with airborne diseases. 

The actual tank is made of NERA, Non-explosive/Non-energetic Reactive Armour. The entire tank is powered by a SACM UDU V8X T9 Hyperbar 8-cylinder diesel fuel engine with 1500 horsepower, while the average car has about 200 horsepower :333 The engine is also tied to a SESM ESM500 series automatic transmission system, which let's the tank reach speed of 44 mph on ideal surfaces. It has an operational range of 340 miles, but can be extended to 400 miles through extra fuel source. When idle, it switches to a Turbomeca TM-7083 gas turbine engine, which minimizes the auditory and visual signals. 

Despite this tank being fucking awesome, it hasn't really been used in actual combat!! Only about 862 AMX-56 Leclerc tanks have been manufactured so far, and they mostly stay in France and the UAE :333

Holy- THAT IS SO DAMN COOL??? HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS??? EUFHSJ TYSM 4 TELLING MEEE ICISNFNS

[raidante]

here’s some quick notes I’ve written in my phone about golems for those who are interested.

Random oc stuff 

Golems: a race of artificially grown organic soldiers by the world powers (UN) to fight the demon invasion of 1992. The war ended in 1995 after the AEON super computer overrides the kill switch and detonates nuclear Armageddon, after rushing suitable humans into underground evacuation vaults. AEON assumed control of the golems engineering and even after 30 years, the death of the original AEON (surviving as multiple computer programs called AEONs), these golems are produced in an endless cycle of fighting a war long lost. They now patrol and survey the market districts of Tokyo, waging turf wars against demons and having their parts recycled into new golems by Collectors. 

Types of Golems:

-foot soldiers. Most basic golem. On the ground soldiers for fighting. Use guns & swords. 

-Sniper units. They provide cover for foot soldiers. Explicitly use long range projectile weapons. 

-Commanders. Most units are guided by commander orders. They don’t fight but hide and transmit information.

-Mothers. Large, multi faceted golems that house the birthing chambers for new golems. They dispense units as they slowly roam Tokyo. They tend to stay close to their units. 

-Collectors. The only non biological golem. They are assist robots that collect golem body parts to be dispensed and recycled by the mothers. This perpetuates the endless production cycle. 

AEON program:

A supercomputer launched by the UN to help radically solve world problems as the world suffered more than ever decline in its populations, environments, and climate while crime escalated and war generated economic growth. When the demons invaded in 1992, AEON was requested to devote all processing powers to solving the demonic war. They created the program that wrote the first genetic makeup for golems, as humanity’s populations were rapidly decreasing and unsuitable for combat against demons. As humans slowly moved underground (those who could afford the shelter programs), golems fought demons on the surface. Demons created turf wars with the powerful among them challenging humanity’s world leaders. AEON came to the conclusion that nuclear Armageddon would be the last effort to cleanse demons off the world. Dispersing its original supercomputer program into smaller, denser AEON programs, it hacked the kill switch, fired the nukes, and changed the world. 30 years after, AEON survives as smaller programs, called AEONs, and they continue to run golem programming and have expanded it to become self sufficient. Most AEONs have forgotten their origins, and completely focus on demonic eradication, rather than ensuring humanity’s survival.