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Re: Defining the term "Capital Ship"
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Sat, 31 Aug 2002 03:04:52 GMT
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In article <aurora-A76569.16385130082002@news.lugnet.com>,
"Jordan D. Greer" <aurora@psicorps.com> wrote:
> > Can a 'capital ship' land on a planet?
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> > Can it take off again?
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> Why would you even WANT to set a capital ship down? Assuming a mass
> of 90,000 (American) tons, you would have to expend roughly 4.91*10^18
> joules to get a Nimitz class carrier into space. That's equivalent to
> about 1.174 megatons of TNT. To generate 4.91*10^18 joules with hydrogen
> fusion, you would have to use 7.8 tons of hydrogen. It's simply not
> worth the expenditure of energy and material.
What I meant to say was 1.174 gigatons (1.174 million kilotons, 1,174
megatons). If my memory serves me correctly, that's more than half of
America's nuclear firepower.
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| (...) One heavy turbolaser bolt on a Star Destoyer has a blast of 200 gigatons. Lets not even get into the insane amount of power required for hyperspace. (Which is far more than would be required to "take off" from a planet.) Or how about this one: (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Why would you even WANT to set a capital ship down? Assuming a mass of 90,000 (American) tons, you would have to expend roughly 4.91*10^18 joules to get a Nimitz class carrier into space. That's equivalent to about 1.174 megatons of TNT. To (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.space)
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