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#1
07 Dec 2007 11:48
 
 
If you are wielding uraniumweapons( of sufficient weight) and hitting an
opponent with uraniu marmor(of succifient weight) with enough strength ( ie,
hit for enough damage ), then a fissionreaction should occure. Now
uncontrolled fissionreactions do tend to be rather devastating, surely
destroying atleast the armor and weapon ( and respective wearer and wielder),
and probably everything else in a large radius. Similar checks should be coded
for the instances when a merchant is happily banging away on uranium with a
uranium hammer.

The exact masses and forces needed in real life not that ridiculous, and
ofcourse in this magically enhanced world, who knows what might happen. (
Ofcourse, it might be a magical explosion simply creating a wildmagic zone,
you know.. b-a-n-a-n-a-s!)


 
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#2
07 Dec 2007 14:20
 
 
For those of you unfamiliar with the design of atomic weapons: the first one
ever used in warfare (the "Little Boy" part of the Manhattan project, dropped
August 6, 1945) used the crudest form of fission reacion -- banging two pieces
of uranium together at high speed. Each of the pieces exceeded 20 kilograms in
mass, making it extremely unlikely that a weapon of such size could be wielded
by a mortal. Each of the pieces was "weapons grade" uranium, meaning the
proportion that was the reactive U-235 isotope was over 20 times (closer to 50
times, in the case of this bomb) more than naturally occurring uranium, which
is about as dangerous as any other rock. It is possible, but unlikely, that
"refining" in BatMUD does this, as the merchant tool belt does not have a
"centrifuge" setting. Finally, the two pieces were banged together at about
the same speed as any other bullet strikes its target. This is about six times
faster than any human being on earth has thrown a baseball, cricket ball,
javelin, discus, or anything else I could find a world record about.

The only weapon a human has ever swung that approaches the speed of sound is
the tip of a whip. I find it very, very hard to believe that a whip's tip
weighing the required 25 kilograms could be constructed, let alone swung at
the proper speed, by anything less than a titan or giant on 'roids. And, if
such a weapon of approprirate metal was made, it would suffer the possiblity
of a less lethal but (from my point of view) hillarious result called
"pre-detonation", especially in a flexible item like a whip. This would make
you extremely unpopular in what's left of your party, ss+, or pcity.

Shinarae Lluminus

 
 
 
Shinarae
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