From: GuyCore@aol44.com
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 16:22:47 -0500
Subj: Megatonnage
Anybody know how big the combined explosions were that sent the moon out of
orbit?
Guy
From: "Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam..." (boomer@soulcage.inmind44.com)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:18:58 +0000
Subj: Re: Megatonnage
Good question - at first I didn't think it was possible to answer it.
But then I remembered that all of the world's dismantled nuclear
weapons were supposedly stored in the waste dumps as well.
I'm sure there are on-line resources that can give us a clue as to
what the current combined megatonnage of all global nuclear weapons
would be.
Whatever this number turns out to be, is what got set off on Sept.
13th, 1999, plus whatever the amount of fissionable nuclear waste
was, minus what was left over to be used in "Seance Spectre" to
change the Moon's course.
- Boomer
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Likes: Dry white wines. Lebanon Bologna. Computers. Legos. Space: 1999. Red-heads.
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From: "Mark Meskin" (plastic.gravity@newrock44.com)
Subj: Re: Megatonnage
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 00:28:09 -0600
> A quote: "Everybody's invited to my house for the big graduation party in May!"
You'd freak, if all 200 of us showed up with legos and Bologna from
lebanon...............
-Mark
From: Siskokid1@aol44.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 17:32:13 -0500
Subj: Moonbase alpha
Did moonbase alpha have shockabsorbers? The amount of force it would require
to move moon out of orbit would have surely killed everyone in moonbase alpha
From: dwelle@online.dct44.com (David Welle)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 18:18:03 -0600
It did have shock absorbers of a sort, namely artificial gravity. The
artificial gravity systems were evidently able to absorb a great deal of the
acceleration that would have otherwise killed the inhabitants; but it didn't
quite absorb it all. The force of several G's still got through, pressing
everyone to the ground for a minute or two. Eventually, Area Two started
running out of "fuel", and the G-force of acceleration decreased enough that
the artificial gravity systems could *fully* compensate. Then finally, when
Area Two was completely burned out, the acceleration ceased, but by then,
the Moon was already traveling at an enormous speed away from Earth.
From: "Mark Meskin"
Subj: Re: Moonbase shockabsorbers
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 00:26:11 -0600
About a year or so ago some one on the list with a good knowledge of
physics calculated the amount of energy needed to move the moon and it
turned out that the force would have been enough to destroy the moon at the
same time. I'm not sure how he or she figured this out, but the energy
requirement was far in excess of what could have been generated by nuclear
waste. At any rate it doesn't matter to me, because implauseable or not I
LOVE space:1999. In the Seance Spector(season 2) Koenig and Co recreate
the explosion that hurled the moon out of orbit, and because Maya gives
them a 100% causualty forecast, they evacuate to a fleet of Eagles. For an
S2 episode, its really quite engaging.
-Later Crater,
Mark
From: Siskokid1@aol44.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 21:57:56 -0500
Subj: Re: Moonbase alpha
Once the moon left the earth's orbit, it SLOWS down. Wait a minute. there
is no inertia in space. A object moving in space will continue to move at
the same speed if another force does not act upon it. So maybe Alpha's AG
generators finally compensated for the speed. I doubt very much that the
moon slowed down in space.
From: GuyCore@aol44.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 23:16:01 -0500
Subj: Re: Moonbase alpha
I must say that Area 1 and Area 2 must be extremely large craters themselves
after the disasters.
From: GuyCore@aol44.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 23:19:40 -0500
Subj: Re: Moonbase shockabsorbers
>About a year or so ago some one on the list with a good knowledge of
>physics calculated the amount of energy needed to move the moon and it
>turned out that the force would have been enough to destroy the moon at the
>same time.
This is exactly my point. It would not shatter the moon, but it would have
severely melted and warped the crust and mantle.
From: GuyCore@aol44.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 23:12:47 -0500
Subj: Re: Moonbase alpha
What is the distance from Alpha to Area 1 and Area 2? Is there a map
somewhere? I know Alpha is in Plato.
From: GuyCore@aol44.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 23:32:37 -0500
Subj: Re: Moonbase alpha
>So maybe Alpha's AG generators finally compensated for the speed.
Explain that. There's a neat couple of papers you should read. One is the
"Specific Theory of Relativity," by Albert Einstein, and the other is the
"General Theory of Relativity," also by Albert Einstein.
You're correct about the inertia part, though.
I've always wondered what the sustained rotation of the moon was after
Breakaway. If Alpha has AG, they might have compensated for the flux in
gravity as it wobbled out of the system.
The A1 and A2 blasts certainly would perpetuate seismic events long after
Breakaway. A1 and A2 vicinities would be semi-solid and liquid for a while,
too. I never liked the way the series handled the Breakaway because it was
only as if Alpha experienced a monnquake, were knocked off of their feet, and
then stood up and went to Tony's to get some synthahol.
Guy