Day before yesterday, Bart Massey said:
:Thus Annie would probably be Anniesicle before she even hit bottom...
Oops, wrong message, butit sure was good :-)
:As I understood it, recently in the PBEM campaign being reported on this
:list, a fuel ship leaked a big cloud of hydrogen into space, and then one
:of the ships ignited or exploded it as a diversion. Why did it ignite or
:explode? It seems like it wouldn't, unless there was also some other chemical
:about for it to combine with. Was it a nuclear explosion? Seems like the
:conditions for this would be pretty unlikely in a small cloud of hydrogen
:in deep space...
:
:Probably just being stupid, or misunderstood the description.
:
: Bart Massey
: [email removed]
:
Uhmm, er, uh,.... stammer..
Well, the *REAL* reason is because it was spectacular, fit well in the game,
and seemed almost plausible.
For the purposes of the game, I'm gonna let the characters decide if they
want to worry about this little detail. I can't think of any reason in
our common reality why it should have expolded, sans other chemicals in
the mix. There might have been, there might not, I haven't had to rule
on that yet :-).
Oh yes, it was NOT NOT NOT thermonuclear. Niether was it some kind of
fission. (Beats the he** out of me how someone could split H2 anyway.)
I will also go out on a limb and say that the crew of the Alcyon had the
materials, and enough on the stick intellectually to make it happen.
Your not being stupid, just observant. How come you're not on board?
:-)
Richard
PBEM ref - home of the pharosian bitching cactus [email removed]