June 12th, 2003, 07:04 AM
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Re: ++Official Legacy of the Ra\'shrakil Alpha Test Thread++
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Plasma is super-heated matter, and it is not actually a gas. It is another phase of matter, with some properties similar to gases. Ions are not super-heated, so an Ion and a Plasma Engine are not the same thing at all.
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Plasma is a gas that is hot enough to have had its electrons stripped away (although it can still be considered a seperate state of matter). Plasmas consist of ions, but not all ions are a plasma.
IIRC, the ions emitted by an ion engine are super-heated, thus they would be considered a plasma.
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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.
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