Former Brineller Martin Malmkvist (that guy who was designing an Uplift-based game) asked me to forward the message below. If you reply, please cc: your message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. >Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:25:10 +0100 >From: Martin Malmkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Regarding Uplift-project <snip> >However, my project is still progressing, although at a >much slower rate than usual, not to mention less visible too, since I'm >working on the interface for a unit construction programme - there's a lot of >calculations on each unit to be done. This is especially true regarding the >larger classes of ships as the cubic-volume is expanding almost exponentially >with each step up-class. >Anyways, I've come up with some questions which you might be able to help >getting answers for: > >1) Would you expect an energy weapon to use an amount of energy equal to the >damage it inflicts? Energy is measured in TeraJoule. > >2) Would you expect 1 tonne of armour (I'm talking seriously dense stuff, >like >pure neutron mass, or something similarly extraordinary) to be able to absorb >1 TeraWatt of concentrated, directed energy? Exposure time would be something >like 1/100 to 1/4500 of a second. The surface about 25 Squaremetres, >thickness >approximately 1-4 meters. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://go.to/brin-l Brin-L Party Page: http://www.geocities.com/jeroenvb.geo/party.html
