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       Superweapon yield estimate thread
       By: Dutch Date: December 11, 2020, 11:40 am
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       For superlasers, Species 8472 ships, etc.
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       Undine particle-beam weapon
       By: Dutch Date: December 11, 2020, 11:50 am
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       In 1 second, a bio-ship destroys a Borg cube. By radius:
       To get an explosion with a total destruction radius of 50
       feet, you need 100 lb (45 kg) of TNT. [1] That's 188280000
       joules. Unless that's the cube's reactor blowing up, it's
       impossible.
       Rating: 7/10
       By destruction: I'll assume the Borg cube is made of carbon
       steel, but is mostly hollow. This would require about 1372000000
       joules to melt. Note that this is conservative as the cube
       probably weighs more than 518 kg.
       Rating: 6/10
       By KE: Assuming as before that the cube weighs 518 kg (a
       ridiculously low figure) to accelerate it to 200 ft/s (60.96
       m/s) would take around 962 kilojoules, or about 0.23 kgTNT.
       Totally possible, but remember that this is a minimum, and that
       vaporization was also a factor.
       Rating: 6/10
       [1]:
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       Cardassian beam weapons
       By: Dutch Date: December 22, 2020, 4:42 pm
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       In 0.17 sec a Cardassian warship appears to vaporize about 150g
       of iron. That requires about 1255200J, or 300g of TNT.
       Rating: 6/10
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       Death Star destroys Alderaan (ANH)
       By: Dutch Date: January 13, 2022, 10:27 am
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       Okay, so the new maximum size for stations is 200 feet (61
       meters). I will be scaling off that.
       The Death Star is 160 kilometers in diameter. So it's 800 times
       bigger than the RW version.
       Earth's diameter (approximation for Alderaan) divided by 800
       equals roughly 16 kilometers. A 16-kilometer sphere, with a
       density
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       of
       5520 kg/m[sup]3[/sup], would weigh about 11838744 kg. According
       to OmniCalculator
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       it would
       also have a puny escape velocity of 0.01887 m/s. Therefore, the
       minimum energy to blow up this "planet" in space is roughly
       2107.75 joules.
       The maximum value (sufficient to propel the debris at about five
       planetary diameters per second) is roughly 75,768 TJ.
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