On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Johannes Trimmel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2011, Onno Meyer wrote: > >> water is much less compressible than either air or vacuum (if >> you can talk about compression in the latter case). >> > > Does demolision sometimes use the shockwaves generated for some constructive > purposes, or is it all just waste energy? If the former, you don't have that > in vacuum.
All demolition uses the shockwave. Most anti-material demolition works to couple the shockwve directly to what's being blown up. Anti-personal doesn't always. But even in anti-material work, concussion is used. That's particularly true in improvised situations, where there isn't time or equipment to fully embed explosives. > In any case the energy that is usually going into shockwaves, will go > someplace else in vacuum. What i don't know is, weather it goes somewhere, > where taking it into account is trivial, or not. Well, it'll go into accelerating the gas given off by the explosive. But without an atmosphere to couple to, the effective range is pretty short. I'm pretty sure what'd I do is asses a familiarity penality. If you know what to expect, or if you've got time to research and fully prepare, it's no more difficutl than on a planet (and vice versa). If you don't, strange things will likely happen. -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
