Chemical Explosives are not the only option, as I understand it an Explosion
is essentially the transition point at which Thermal Expansion rapidly
exceeds the containment capabilities of whatever is resisting the expansion
(I don't know if the expanding material needs to have made the transition to
gaseous or not)...
So anything that lets you generate or transfer heat at a sufficiently
high-rate could cause an explosion, forex a Fusion power plant rapidly
overheating/charging a metallic resistor laid along the path of charge
required could be an explosion, & may be more readily doable on an asteroid
(especially a metallic one) than forumulating chemical explosives (which a
only a moderately efficient way of storing the energy until you wish to
release it anyway).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann" <[email protected]>
To: "Gurps" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:29 PM
Subject: [gurps] In space no one can hear you go boom!
In an environment with resources only from asteroids are explosives
possible?
Can you get the chemical resources from the asteroids?
McE
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