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Originally Posted by 3DMaster
Lots and lots of talk which comes down to nothing.
2 2MT nuclear weapons took out a Minbari Sharlin, it's that simple.
It fits perfectly with the way the whole B5 ships look, work, and what they lack. They're horrendously slow in comparison to for example ST ships. They're simply not very advanced, even the most advanced of the Younter Races seem rather pathetic.
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You better have some physics behind you; if you come out with fighting words.
I also warn you that Berman Trek is a very touchy subject with me.
I intend to demonstrate the error of your statement in a friendly way.
Do you know how to explain this?
http://www.babtech-onthe.net/calcula...calculator.htm
Those calculations are valid with the onscreen evidence assuming RHA steel. Those are low estimates.
Now you have brought up(yet again) the central question in B-5. Why do nuclear warheads kill spacecraft when there isn't sufficient direct x/uv/ir heating to accomplish the goal shown on screen.(especially based on what you expect in the real world).
I demonstrated by visual(video) evidence that the two occasions cited have a kinetic impactor explanation for ships destroyed(nuclear warhead sapped asteroids used as fragmentation grenades) Both times the ships were in the middle of an asteroid field; the frragments outflung showed velocities consistent with the necessary kinetic energies that you would require to destroy robustly armored and armed spacecraft such as Battlecrabs and Sharlins.
I warn you flatly that I can show you this again in another way, the Enterprise E ramming the Scimitar at low speed;
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/clips/...&type=c&a=0,15
showes a pathetically weak spacecraft.
Whereas from this site;
http://b5tech.com/science/misc/armor/index.html
using this video;
http://www.b5tech.com//movies/astrmove.asf
http://b5tech.com/movies/plasmaweapo...nbariarmor.asf
I can show the shot up Lexington shrug off a low speed asteroid impact equivalent to the above Enterprise/Sciimitar collision in energies involved without a scratch!
Cheers;
