Strategy guide?

[telekrtal]

http://pub48.ezboard.com/bseba78591

[Possum]

Instar & Spoo

Well the kinetic energy imparted by impact of a projectile is a fairly common formula for those of us interested in terminal ballistics.

KE = MV^2

or

Kinetic energy is equal to Mass times (Velocity squared)

Einsteins famous formula (E=MC^2) is for the total conVersion of a mass to energy, as in nuclear warheads.

[This message has been edited by Possum (edited 25 February 2001).]

[Possum]

Oh, yes, and as far as empirical data...

Having shot a fair number of ground squirrels, I can tell you they always come off second-best in a collision with an 80-grain projectile moving at roughly 3000fps

[Instar]

thats what I thought

[raynor]

Instar and Possum possibly have limited imaginations. Myself, I have no trouble at all picturing Possum and Instar near the squirrel in question during the 50 Megaton BLast.

Awesome signature, Spoo!



[This message has been edited by raynor (edited 25 February 2001).]

[Suicide Junkie]

Now, you realize that the squirrel isn't going to explode like that unless it tries to mate with an anti-squirrel.

Then you turn 2Kg of squirrel + almost 0 energy
into
0Kg of mass + 1.8 * 10^17 J of energy

Velocity has nothing to do with it. Nuclear reactions have nothing to do with it either.

The simple fact is that for every Joule of energy that is released, the mass of the system goes down by:
1/C^2

What the 50 megaton thing indicates, is that if you weighed your nuke, set it off, collected all of the remains, you would find that it weighs less than before, and that it weighs about one squirrel-mass less.

The sun loses a couple of kilograms each day, from all the energy it spews into space.

[Darwin]

Nuclear weapons (and all explosives) are rated in megatons by their explosive force. A 50 megaton bomb would explode with the same force and destructive power of 50 million tons of TNT. I doesn't have any thing to do with weighing the bomb.