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A Finland parody movie of Startrek and Babylon 5 combined.
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TimFox:
Had the original Star Wars movies not been made, we would have been impressed by the special effects in the movie "Spaceballs" (1985)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/
BrianHG:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on September 11, 2023, 12:20:25 pm --- They also talked about 1.5KG antimatter warheads, that would be a ~64 MT explosion according to some random people online. That's the Mark 1 torpedo, which was 200 years before Enterprise D.

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I'm curious, wouldn't mixing matter and antimatter should create pure energy, as in gamma, x-ray, UV, optical, ect electromagnetic radiation?  In space without an atmosphere to super heat with radiation to create a blast wave of matter, wouldn't the output be a blast wave of light heat?  Sort of like how effective is a Nuke in the vacuum of space, wouldn't a matter antimatter annihilation just be a perfect blink of the brightest light imaginable?  I guess if it is close enough to any matter, then you would vaporize a ton of it unless that matter is perfectly reflective.  Then you would need to be right next to it.
coppercone2:
yes, they accurately call it light balls in this movie
tszaboo:

--- Quote from: BrianHG on September 12, 2023, 12:55:23 am ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on September 11, 2023, 12:20:25 pm --- They also talked about 1.5KG antimatter warheads, that would be a ~64 MT explosion according to some random people online. That's the Mark 1 torpedo, which was 200 years before Enterprise D.

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I'm curious, wouldn't mixing matter and antimatter should create pure energy, as in gamma, x-ray, UV, optical, ect electromagnetic radiation?  In space without an atmosphere to super heat with radiation to create a blast wave of matter, wouldn't the output be a blast wave of light heat?  Sort of like how effective is a Nuke in the vacuum of space, wouldn't a matter antimatter annihilation just be a perfect blink of the brightest light imaginable?  I guess if it is close enough to any matter, then you would vaporize a ton of it unless that matter is perfectly reflective.  Then you would need to be right next to it.

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Yes, as far as I understand a nuke in he atmosphere, most of the energy is kinetic. While in space it's mostly of the energy is various gamma rays as you said. Battlestar Galactica got the nuclear weapons in space correctly. The Spacedock Youtube channel has some good videos on various hard sci-fi weapons if you are interested.
The craziest I've heard about was using a nuke shaped charge to accelerate the liner to realistic speeds.


--- Quote from: Infraviolet on September 11, 2023, 05:21:14 pm ---"I think the whitestar fleet would fire at a federation flagship, and the tactical would say: Shields down to 99.5%."
Might depend on who approached with gun ports open, a sign of respect ofcourse.

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I blame the Minbari. It's foolish to think other civilizations have the same traditions as you.
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