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

[David Scheidt]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Rupert Boleyn <rboleyn at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann wrote:
>>
>> In an environment with resources only from asteroids are explosives
>> possible?
>>
>> Can you get the chemical resources from the asteroids?
>
> I imagine so, though nitrogen might be in short supply.

compared to Earth's atmosphere, yes.  but not really in short supply.
On the order of 1% of mass of a typical asteroid will be nitrogen
compounds.  It will take a substantial amount of work to get them out,
though, but that's mostly a matter of suppyling energy.  And that's
not a problem in a setting where you can get there.


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David Scheidt
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