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"...As you can see, there is NO visible damage - no signs of gashes, dents, cracks, or even a scratch...
Thus, the kinetic energy of the asteroid impact would have been 1.15E13 joules, equivalent to a 2.4 kiloton bomb."
Sure, thats believable. (This asteroid supposedly hit the ship without PD or anything else responding in time, right? And, for the yield, are they using relative velocity, or just the asteroid's velocity?)
Assuming that's true, how come Sheridan(?)'s little asteroid nuke-mines in the Earth-Minbari war (seen in one of the TV-Movies I believe) shredded that bigass flagship ("dark star"?) from so far away? Nukes aren't particularily effective in space either, since theres no real shockwave.
Unless there's a reasonable explanation, it seems like a continuity error to me. (Not that continuity errors bother my enjoyment of the show much, by definition (Trekkie)
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