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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The Mindset wrote:
Celestial Seibutsu wrote:
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!
much the same as the effects of rubber bullets.
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.
No, you missed my point. Rubber bullets are used for riot control, use the same concept for negative mass rounds. You shot someone with a 20gram negative mass round and you don't kill them, but it will hurt. Plus you don't have to deal with picking up all the rubber bullets.
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?

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Why the hell would you use something as expensive, difficult to contain and dangerous as negative mass when rubber bullets would work? Does common sense go out the window just because it's sci-fi?
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?

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The Mindset wrote:Why the hell would you use something as expensive, difficult to contain and dangerous as negative mass when rubber bullets would work? Does common sense go out the window just because it's sci-fi?
Apparently, yes....
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Re: What to do with a frakton of negative mass?

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The Mindset wrote:Why the hell would you use something as expensive, difficult to contain and dangerous as negative mass when rubber bullets would work? Does common sense go out the window just because it's sci-fi?
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