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2010-12-06 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 This seems to be a HEAT round (think WWII bazooka) where the molten jet is accelerated by electromagnets.

What I don't understand is how they intend to keep the molten jet around long enough to be accelerated by the electromagnets.

Posted by Frozen Al 2010-12-06 12:07|| 2010-12-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Not sure how they plan to keep the stuff molten but I have never liked passing one of those flatbed semis with a crucible full of molten aluminum on the trailer

Posted by Cheaderhead 2010-12-06 18:08|| 2010-12-06 18:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ...or an anti-orbital weapon as illustrated by the scorching of the X-whatever that just landed.

Posted by Skidmark 2010-12-06 23:45|| 2010-12-06 23:45|| Front Page Top

#4 FaL, once accelerated the molten stream cools in it's travel becoming a kinetic weapon with tremendous velocity.

Imagine the energies required to propel a molecule to tremendous speeds, then the next and next until they become a stream. Lorenz says it doesn't take much.

They collesce in cooling into a single mass because they are ionized by the flight. The ones leading slow as they give up energy in cooling and become the shaping framework.

It's a bullet cast in flight.

Posted by Skidmark 2010-12-06 23:59|| 2010-12-06 23:59|| Front Page Top

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