New weapon idea for SEIV

geoschmo · #1 February 9th, 2005, 01:03 PM

Here, read this... http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/0...eut/index.html

So you get a small black hole and take a mass of something, you don't really need a star, at this speed just a big rock will do. Get it orbiting the black hole real fast and then at the right point give it a shove so it shoots off in the direction of whatever it is you want to smash really hard.

I've heard that some physicists have speculated about the presence of micro-sized black holes. If you could capture one of those and use it to sling some projectiles I'm thinking you could put a decent sized hole in someone's ship.

Ragnarok-X · #2 February 9th, 2005, 01:26 PM

micro-sized black holes ?! Where should those be located, just within ordinary space ?!

Baron Munchausen · #3 February 9th, 2005, 01:30 PM

Actually, if it's moving slowly enough to orbit you'll need a huge amount of energy to send it on its way. I think that the star they have discovered is believed to have been 'slingshotted' past a black hole just like we slingshot probes past the inner planets to get to the outer planets.

And as far as SE IV/V is concerned, wouldn't it be cool to be able to divert asteroids towards inhabited planets? In the new 3D 'real time' combat system, you could actually have the chance to attack and divert/destroy the incoming threat, too.

DeadZone · #4 February 9th, 2005, 01:55 PM

Well, it brings a whole new meaning to the term
"shooting star"

Sorry, couldnt resist that one

TheDeadlyShoe · #5 February 9th, 2005, 02:11 PM

so we.. can't shoot the black holes at them?

Slynky · #6 February 9th, 2005, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Ragnarok-X said:
micro-sized black holes ?! Where should those be located, just within ordinary space ?!

Hmmmmm, wonder if these have anything to do with my disappearing socks

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Ed Kolis · #7 February 9th, 2005, 03:02 PM

I actually had that idea once myself when I started wondering what Cosmic Encounter's "Hawking Catapult" card was supposed to be...

Hmm, maybe CovertJaguar will make an image of one of these things and it will become one of the new revamped Physical weapons in Adamant?

Strategia_In_Ultima · #8 February 9th, 2005, 04:27 PM

In ST:Enterprise, the Vulcans are said to assume the existence of micro-singularities... microscopic black holes moving at extraordinary speeds that can rip through enything. If memory serves me right, I think a shuttlepod was hit - perhaps Enterprise itself too. And btw, ever heard of a "Mental Singularity Generator"?

narf poit chez BOOM · #9 February 9th, 2005, 11:19 PM

Stardate ah, who cares? Nobody can figure these things out anyway.

Experiment #582 was a success.

ToddT · #10 February 10th, 2005, 12:50 AM

you guys hear of the term "point singularity" i think their was some mention of them in STNG in romulan warp reactor power source . I have also run across it in other sources. essentially it is in most cases an artificial blackholes who's mass was in thousands or tens thousands of pounds in most cases they severed as their power source for propulsion, given their small size the gravity field did not extend very far at all. in case ships would make suicide runs at a target. the ship would be destroyed but the singularity would continue to travel along the same course and slamming into the target. maybe it could be a weapon for larger hulled ships ay fire once every 30 combat turns.
ps in most cases they represented a sizable part of a ships mass.