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VWBB (http://volitionwatch.papageorgefamily/vwbb/index.php)
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Posted by JC Denton on 03-19-2002 09:19 PM:

possible typo?

In the GTF Banshee description on the website, you say it has a fission drive? I thought GTVA propulsion was based on fusion reactors. Or is this a technological evolution the general public is not yet aware of?

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Posted by venom2506 on 03-20-2002 12:20 AM:

bah, fusion, fission, it's still a nuclear reaction. a variant, just like for nukes, i suppose

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Posted by venom2506 on 03-20-2002 12:20 AM:

bah, fusion, fission, it's still a nuclear reaction. a variant, just like for nukes, i suppose

Posted by JC Denton on 03-20-2002 02:49 AM:

So, you're saying the Banshee is powered by a small self-sustaining nuclear bomb?

Posted by JC Denton on 03-20-2002 02:49 AM:

So, you're saying the Banshee is powered by a small self-sustaining nuclear bomb?

Posted by venom2506 on 03-20-2002 03:02 AM:

no lol, I say nothing -I just provided the ship, I didn't write the fluff -, but you do know nuclear powerplants uses fusion right? so why not fission?

Posted by venom2506 on 03-20-2002 03:02 AM:

no lol, I say nothing -I just provided the ship, I didn't write the fluff -, but you do know nuclear powerplants uses fusion right? so why not fission?

Posted by JC Denton on 03-20-2002 03:51 AM:

I keep up with technology, and at current we haven't been able to make a self-sustaining fusion reaction that can generate power in excess of what goes into starting it up...at least not yet. I live not 30 miles from a nuclear power plant. It is a fission-core plant that the military uses to manufacture tritium, y'know, the third-isotope hydrogen that is used in fusion bombs?

If fusion power generation is perfected, there will be a definite media frenzy covering the thing. They've come close, but the reaction simply won't sustain itself. And though it's completely unrelated, a spinoff technology is a "repulsor field" that effectively negates gravity. It's a small chamber (about 8 cm across) that is in the center of an A-1 Supar powerful electromagnet. Scientists managed to suspend a frog in midair, and the thing didn't have any adverse effects afterwards.

Anyways, this has nothing to do with a typo on the webpage. But it is cool.

Posted by JC Denton on 03-20-2002 03:51 AM:

Posted by Bobboau on 03-20-2002 07:26 AM:

well that isn't any more anti gravity than a normal magnet and metal, everything is magnetic just some things are REALY magnetic and most things arn't. and GTVA systems are some sort of fusion.

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Posted by Bobboau on 03-20-2002 07:26 AM:

well that isn't any more anti gravity than a normal magnet and metal, everything is magnetic just some things are REALY magnetic and most things arn't. and GTVA systems are some sort of fusion.

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Posted by FSF Ashrak on 03-20-2002 02:09 PM:

ok so the frog was in mid air (anti-grav) how about the frog being squashed against the reactor 2 times harder than normal (enhanced grav)?

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Posted by Ashark on 03-20-2002 02:09 PM:

ok so the frog was in mid air (anti-grav) how about the frog being squashed against the reactor 2 times harder than normal (enhanced grav)?

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Posted by IceFire on 03-20-2002 02:43 PM:

Probably a typo

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Posted by BabProj Team on 03-20-2002 02:43 PM:

Probably a typo

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Posted by Bobboau on 03-21-2002 02:16 AM:

it isn't anti-gravity, the force of gravity is still acting on the frog, it's just the force of magnetism is acting on it in the oposite direction at the same level

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Posted by Bobboau on 03-21-2002 02:16 AM:

it isn't anti-gravity, the force of gravity is still acting on the frog, it's just the force of magnetism is acting on it in the oposite direction at the same level

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Posted by sandwich on 03-21-2002 03:57 PM:

What's green and red and goes round and round?

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A frog in a blender!

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Posted by sandwich on 03-21-2002 03:57 PM:

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Posted by Cepheid on 03-30-2002 07:28 PM:

Fusion is more efficient, more powerful, and produces less waste. I would not be inclined to believe that any ship is powered by fission in the FS universe.

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