[gurps] In space no one can hear you go boom!

[Travis Watkins]

Nonsense, obviously chemicl explosives would be a much easier way to
go in a biologically sparse environment than, say a couple capacitors
or something(large fully charged capacitor and a smaller capacitor,
flip the switch to discharge the large capacitor into the small one
and pop!  But obviously if you are dealing with asteroids you would
have a hard time coming up with the materials for large conductive
plates)

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Classified TS/BBR
<ClassifiedTSBBR at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> Chemical Explosives are not the only option, as I understand it an Explosion
> is essentially the transition point at which Thermal Expansion rapidly
> exceeds the containment capabilities of whatever is resisting the expansion
> (I don't know if the expanding material needs to have made the transition to
> gaseous or not)...
>
> So anything that lets you generate or transfer heat at a sufficiently
> high-rate could cause an explosion, forex a Fusion power plant rapidly
> overheating/charging a metallic resistor laid along the path of charge
> required could be an explosion, & may be more readily doable on an asteroid
> (especially a metallic one) than forumulating chemical explosives (which a
> only a moderately efficient way of storing the energy until you wish to
> release it anyway).
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann"
> <n.mccartyeigenmann at ntlworld.com>
> To: "Gurps" <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:29 PM
> Subject: [gurps] In space no one can hear you go boom!
>
>
>> In an environment with resources only from asteroids are explosives
>> possible?
>>
>> Can you get the chemical resources from the asteroids?
>>
>> McE
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