Off topic: Spacefarers (a sci-fi RPG)

Deathguard · Post by **Deathguard** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:27 pm

Captain Trek wrote:OOC:
I would personally think that an antimatter flamethrower would be highly ineffecient - it would just annihilate if some dust was floating in front of the cannon barrel, I would assume.
Actually, no, beucase matter and anti-matter mutally anihilate on a 1-to-1 basis. As such, if our 'flamethrower' comes into contact with space dust on its way to an enemy ships, the same (tiny) amount of anti-matter would be anhilated, leaving the rest free to hit the enemy ship...

Yes, but annihilation causes a larger disturbance than the amount of matter/antimatter that are reacting, so it would assumably redirect your flamethrower to the sides in a sort of... fork.

Anarki · Post by **Anarki** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:14 am

OOC: When I read the post, I thought: hey, I'm going to respond with Deathguard's theory.

I was beaten to it.

Deathguard · Post by **Deathguard** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:02 am

-bows-

Captain Trek · Post by **Captain Trek** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:34 pm

OOC: We could ask a scientist... 8)