> > In an environment with resources only from asteroids are explosives > > possible? > > > > Can you get the chemical resources from the asteroids? > > > > Lots of processing hardware might be required, as well as > several megawatts worth of power plants. There are many kinds > of explosives, so what kind one should ideally make would > depend on what kinds of raw materials are present on the > specific asteroid or cometlike body in question. Hydrocarbons > like frozen methane are entirely plausible raw materials, as > is water ice and various metal oxides.
I am trying to decide if I can go with asteroids or whther I need to define the asteroids as plenetary remenants - in which case I have frozen biosphere - and all the biomass and nitrogen therin. Methane may be a solution. > If advanced nanotech is available and industrial blueprints > are also available (or can be made), just shovel enough dirty > asteroid/comet snow into a minifac, give it some time and out > comes small chunks of plastic explosives. True. I am looking for a lower tech route first off. While the settin g _can_ have molecular filtering and indeed, minifacs, it wont really work best if I have to rely on them for this aspect. Ta. McE _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
