On 10/4/2025 2:52 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> schrieb:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:36:44 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
ÿÿÿÿI visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a
lever
that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot more >>>> power than
you can get from D cells.ÿ It discharges though the advanced circuitry >>>> that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
ÿÿÿÿI am just pleased that I am living long enough to see the plasma
drill.
I confess I always wondered about those Star Trek phasers that could
vaporize an entire human being as opposed to blowing a lethal size
hole in him.
They didn't vaporize, or everybody in the room would have been
choking on the fumes.ÿ The creators of the show just chose whatever
special effect was cheapest.
My headcanon was that the beams were transporter beams, with no
receiver specified - whatever the transporters send just gets lost
in a large area of space.
On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 13:32:04 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 10/4/2025 9:40 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote or quoted:~200 lbs converted to joules (or whatever it is in E=MC2).
I did some calculations years ago and determined that if phasers
converted a human sized target into energy it would release roughly the >>>> equivalent of a 2 GIGAton nuclear bomb IIRC.
You might be working off a false either-or between something
with mass, like a human body, and energy when you write
converted a human sized target into energy
. Anything with mass already /is/ energy (a form of energy).
And even if phasers are "just" breaking all the chemical bonds in the
atoms in a body, that's just the same as a theoretically perfectly
efficient conventional explosive since that is exactly what they do.
How big a bang do you get from ~200 lb of Simtec or C4 or some other
explosive like that. Now multiply _that_ by some large number because
conventional explosives don't break EVERY chemical bond when they detonate.
This is, of course, the sort of reasoning that prevents Dracula from
turning into a normal-sized bat (boom!). Or back again (where does the
energy come from?)
On 10/5/2025 2:55 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/4/2025 2:52 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:Wrong sound effect then. :P
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> schrieb:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:36:44 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
????I visualize a capacitor of high density charged by squeezing a
lever
that compresses a piezo-electric device that provides quite a lot more >>>>> power than
you can get from D cells.? It discharges though the advanced circuitry >>>>> that will
do what the circuitry in the present day plasma drill does.
????I am just pleased that I am living long enough to see the plasma >>>>> drill.
I confess I always wondered about those Star Trek phasers that could
vaporize an entire human being as opposed to blowing a lethal size
hole in him.
They didn't vaporize, or everybody in the room would have been
choking on the fumes.? The creators of the show just chose whatever
special effect was cheapest.
My headcanon was that the beams were transporter beams, with no
receiver specified - whatever the transporters send just gets lost
in a large area of space.
On 10/5/25 09:31, Paul S Person wrote:
elseThis is, of course, the sort of reasoning that prevents Dracula from
turning into a normal-sized bat (boom!). Or back again (where does the
energy come from?)
Well like Superman, Dracula is a magical creature. Dracula's nature is
assumed
because of his human prey to be demonic or specifically a demon has
replaced the
assumed soul of Dracula. Where did the Universe come from? Someplace
and that is where Dracula mass/energy is assumed to reside.
Where does Superman's extremely strength and durability come fromprobably
the same place or some place very similar. Oh for the thrilling days of
yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
ÿÿÿÿWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come from probably
the same place or some place very similar.ÿ Oh for the thrilling days of yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
ÿÿÿÿbliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
ÿÿÿÿWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come from
probably
the same place or some place very similar.ÿ Oh for the thrilling days of
yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
ÿÿÿÿbliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
They were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain his
ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the super power come
from that prevents everything from sliding from tables, or drinks from spilling, inside the tall buildings he sometimes carries in one
outstretched palm under one sharp corner whilst flying?
(The colour of a sun will not be accepted as a scientific answer!)
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
ÿÿÿÿWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come from
probably
the same place or some place very similar.ÿ Oh for the thrilling days of
yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
ÿÿÿÿbliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
They were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain his
ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the super power come
from that prevents everything from sliding from tables, or drinks from spilling, inside the tall buildings he sometimes carries in one
outstretched palm under one sharp corner whilst flying?
(The colour of a sun will not be accepted as a scientific answer!)
On 10/6/2025 9:24 PM, Titus G wrote:
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
ÿÿÿÿWhere does Superman's extremely strength and
durability come from
probably
the same place or some place very similar.ÿ Oh for the
thrilling days of yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could
confer super powers.
ÿÿÿÿbliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
They were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain
his ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the
super power come from that prevents everything from sliding
from tables, or drinks from spilling, inside the tall buildings
he sometimes carries in one outstretched palm under one sharp
corner whilst flying? (The colour of a sun will not be accepted
as a scientific answer!)
Contact telekinesis.
On 10/6/25 21:24, Titus G wrote:
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
ÿÿÿÿWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come fromThey were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain his
probably
the same place or some place very similar.ÿ Oh for the thrilling days of >>> yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
ÿÿÿÿbliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the super power come
from that prevents everything from sliding from tables, or drinks from
spilling, inside the tall buildings he sometimes carries in one
outstretched palm under one sharp corner whilst flying?
(The colour of a sun will not be accepted as a scientific answer!)
Magic in the ink the artists use is the secret.
Some of the movies have demonstrated what battles between Superpowered
people and super-powered aliens can do to nice modern cities.
Magic is his vunerability as well as I well remember from the earliest case
of the rude little goblin with an unpronounceable name who used to show up
to bedevil younger Kal-El.
Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> writes:
On 10/6/25 21:24, Titus G wrote:
On 6/10/25 17:07, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
snip
ÿÿÿÿWhere does Superman's extremely strength and durability come from >>>> probablyThey were thrilling days for me as well. Gravity might explain his
the same place or some place very similar.ÿ Oh for the thrilling days of >>>> yesteryear when
we assumed that growing up on a much more dense planet could confer
super powers.
ÿÿÿÿbliss - it is actually in the ink the artist uses.
ability to leap over tall buildings but where does the super power come
from that prevents everything from sliding from tables, or drinks from
spilling, inside the tall buildings he sometimes carries in one
outstretched palm under one sharp corner whilst flying?
(The colour of a sun will not be accepted as a scientific answer!)
Magic in the ink the artists use is the secret.
Some of the movies have demonstrated what battles between Superpowered >> people and super-powered aliens can do to nice modern cities.
Magic is his vunerability as well as I well remember from the earliest case
of the rude little goblin with an unpronounceable name who used to show up >> to bedevil younger Kal-El.
Mister Mxyzptlk?
Michael Ikeda <mmikeda@erols.com> wrote or quoted:
("Miracle exception" is Kakalio's term for the change in the laws
of physics needed to account for a superhero's powers.)
The Greek "ta physika" means "natural things".
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