Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!Kanuckistan wrote:Because it nullifies at a 1:1 ratio - one kilo eats a kilo of enemy armour, and that's it.Celestial Seibutsu wrote: But if you can take negative mass and add it to positive mass which in turn destroys the positive mass, then why not make a weapon of some kind to disperse it on your enemies?
You might as well use antimatter instead, then you have one kilo of projectile eating one kilo of enemy hull and spitting out 45 megatons TNTe of energy, point-blank.
What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
That was my thoughts exactly.Central Facehuggeria wrote:Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!Kanuckistan wrote:Because it nullifies at a 1:1 ratio - one kilo eats a kilo of enemy armour, and that's it.Celestial Seibutsu wrote: But if you can take negative mass and add it to positive mass which in turn destroys the positive mass, then why not make a weapon of some kind to disperse it on your enemies?
You might as well use antimatter instead, then you have one kilo of projectile eating one kilo of enemy hull and spitting out 45 megatons TNTe of energy, point-blank.
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
Could negative mass be employed in weight-loss products? ![Idea :idea:](./images/smilies/icon_idea.gif)
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
BRILLIANT!Solar Communes wrote:Could negative mass be employed in weight-loss products?
This calls for some use of SCIENCE!
This won't end well.
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
The Cerberus Alliance wrote:BRILLIANT!Solar Communes wrote:Could negative mass be employed in weight-loss products?
This calls for some use of SCIENCE!
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
Because 1:1 mass-eating is less effective than modern, iRL bullets at doing damage.Central Facehuggeria wrote: Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!
Plus you have all the handling issues, including negative inertia, which alone makes it a bitch - much worse than antimatter.
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...tho it might make a decent penetrator for getting through indestructible uber-armour.
If you don't mind massive blood loss and traumatic injury.Solar Communes wrote:Could negative mass be employed in weight-loss products?
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
The reasoning for using negative mass rounds would be for law enforcement where collateral damage is not something you'd want to happen. In war it just means you killed the guy and the guy next to him. Use it in more confined spaces, maybe also use it for contained black ops operations like maybe extraction or hostage situations.Kanuckistan wrote:Because 1:1 mass-eating is less effective than modern, iRL bullets at doing damage.Central Facehuggeria wrote: Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!
Plus you have all the handling issues, including negative inertia, which alone makes it a bitch - much worse than antimatter.
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...tho it might make a decent penetrator for getting through indestructible uber-armour.
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
Celestial Seibutsu wrote:The reasoning for using negative mass rounds would be for law enforcement where collateral damage is not something you'd want to happen. In war it just means you killed the guy and the guy next to him. Use it in more confined spaces, maybe also use it for contained black ops operations like maybe extraction or hostage situations.Kanuckistan wrote:Because 1:1 mass-eating is less effective than modern, iRL bullets at doing damage.Central Facehuggeria wrote: Collateral damage concerns? Negative-mass bullets! All the mass-eating POW of antimatter without the messy concerns about civilian casualties from indiscriminant nuclear bombardment!
Plus you have all the handling issues, including negative inertia, which alone makes it a bitch - much worse than antimatter.
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...tho it might make a decent penetrator for getting through indestructible uber-armour.
But you'd need to fire pretty big bullets at them. What's the mass of a standard round, say, 20 grams. That's how much matter it'd nullify. It wouldn't even penetrate organs!
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
much the same as the effects of rubber bullets.The Mindset wrote: But you'd need to fire pretty big bullets at them. What's the mass of a standard round, say, 20 grams. That's how much matter it'd nullify. It wouldn't even penetrate organs!
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?
Nope, no concussive force. There's no energy release when nullification takes place, and momentum is not conserved unless both target and bullet are travelling in the same direction. It'd literally be like a chunk of your skin disappeared.Celestial Seibutsu wrote:much the same as the effects of rubber bullets.The Mindset wrote: But you'd need to fire pretty big bullets at them. What's the mass of a standard round, say, 20 grams. That's how much matter it'd nullify. It wouldn't even penetrate organs!