conductivity of the warhead is irrelivant. this is a capacitor. it's capacity (ability to store a charge -- especially capable of thousands of amps) is related to both its surface area (of the metal plates) and the thickness (and quality) of the insulation (dielectric) between the plates. more surface area, the thicker dielectric, and the better the dielectric can resist conducting all increase peak capacity.
therefore, if some projectile impacts the capacitor while fully charged, the dielectric could be thinned (under compression from the impact), or punctured/fractured so that air, which conducts WAY better than the dielectric, will then allow a short-circuit thru that point.
the result is an electrical arc that destroys the dielectric and anything else near it in a flash of light and intense heat...
not to mention the flowing currents. i imagine the capacitors are at moderately high voltages (5-10kV or so?) to create that much current on the spot... it takes time for capacitors to charge and discharge. certainly, the copper warheads contribute somehow to their own undoing..
when thousands of amps flow, anything it flows thru (unless it's a super conductor) is going to heat up, melt, and vaporize in a fraction of a second. so instead of having a narrowly-focused stream of copper traveling at super-sonic speeds, you have a dispursed cloud (heat causes expansion -- hence 'unfocusing' the force) of copper vapor (and whatever the capacitor is made of) with a little unvaporized (or condensing?) liquid copper left over that is harmless to the vehicle's ordinary armor.
it's a cleaver device. the reaction (the short circuit that causes the current to flow) starts before the projectile even fully penetrates the insulation between plates. i'm sure it wouldn't stop a heavy round like what tanks fire, but for RPGs it sounds like a great idea.
so make it more redundant. make the capacitors narrow slices with enough heat resistant insulation between capacitors to prevent one (having been hit) from triggering the others. if multiple shots are fired at it they may trigger different capacitors instead of being a total loss.
Is it our governments choice to tax us for whatever it pleases whenever it pleases? I thought we had a tea party centuries ago because of this. If a state government is going to tax custom software, what is the tax PAYER getting in return for the taxation? Where's the representation? Or is this a an attempt to raise money and nothing more? Is it even legal to do this? I wonder when we'll start to pay a 'creative tax', whereby anything creative created by anyone shall be fairly taxed by the state... indeed.
America is quickly becoming a stinky hole of politics that goes waaaaay beyond the realm of 'governing the people'. It's a shame.
What... It took a professor and a student to concieve of this? It's childs play, and issuing a patent for this sort of thing seems useless, but who cares.
This technique won't work on all P2P networks. DirectConnect (DC++ anyway) shows a hash code along with the search results. Simply ignore the files that have the same size and different hashes. If you download the wrong file to begin with, then download the other heh. Plus, the DC hub daemons seem to only allow 4 search results per person searched, so at worst, you could get 4 bogus hits from any one source of bogusness.
In the ongoing war between anti- and pro-file swappers, technology WILL escalate until someone stays on top, and my guess is techniques like this won't keep traders down for long before they solve the 'problem' of fake file shares.
At no point should there *ever* be a law passed that benefits any one group of people and not others. Sure, anyone can contribute to the OS, but who's to say what an improvement is or isn't and how much that is worth in tax deductions. Fooey. This is a bad idea. It's far too subjective and extremely selective.
This article is totally obsurd. Pay close attention to the wording. These lines get my attention right away as being quietly deceptive:
"He found that the spheres could replicate by splitting into two."
Indeed, the spheres may split in two parts, but how did they do it and do they done it on their own? What is "could" supposed to mean? A potential for division? Did HE split them? I don't see how the magnetic properties of this plasma would cause this to happen without external intervention.
"Under the right conditions they also got bigger, taking up neutral argon atoms and splitting them into ions and electrons to replenish their boundary layers."
They "take up" atoms as in consumption, right? To me, it sounds like he's suggesting these gass balls have intent, as if the bubbles intended to separate some electrons from their atoms. Of course they don't think, so isn't it more likely that this is a natural effect of this process? Is this really 'eating', so-to-speak, or is it a self-sustaining 'effect'? What makes it different from a candle wick sucking up liquified wax? How many other reactions like this also qualify as a prerequisite for life?
"Finally, they could communicate information by emitting electromagnetic energy, making the atoms within other spheres vibrate at a particular frequency"
Wait a second... How does "could communicate" mean they "are communicating". If this is just an unproven potential ability, then how dows that qualify it *currently* for this "communication" criterium of cellular life?
At the top of the article, it stated, "Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate - fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells."
Have they truly fufilled these requirements, or just made a bunch of confusing analogies? Does this experiment prove that plasma can even operate using evolutionary mechanics? Such as distinction between plasma balls that influence its 'survival'? Is that distinction shared when it divides in two? Without properties like that, it couldn't evolve into anything more than what it is.
What makes these plasma bubbles any different from soap suds? They too can divide, consume, and communicate if you add as much speculation to the concept as this guy has. The candle example works too. A candle could be setup to divide, consume, and communicate in a similar manner.
I see no real proof of anything in this article except that argon plasma has some interesting characteristics. The plasma bubbles that this guy created don't communicate, have questionable "reproductive" and "consumption" abilities.
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conductivity of the warhead is irrelivant. this is a capacitor. it's capacity (ability to store a charge -- especially capable of thousands of amps) is related to both its surface area (of the metal plates) and the thickness (and quality) of the insulation (dielectric) between the plates. more surface area, the thicker dielectric, and the better the dielectric can resist conducting all increase peak capacity. therefore, if some projectile impacts the capacitor while fully charged, the dielectric could be thinned (under compression from the impact), or punctured/fractured so that air, which conducts WAY better than the dielectric, will then allow a short-circuit thru that point. the result is an electrical arc that destroys the dielectric and anything else near it in a flash of light and intense heat... not to mention the flowing currents. i imagine the capacitors are at moderately high voltages (5-10kV or so?) to create that much current on the spot... it takes time for capacitors to charge and discharge. certainly, the copper warheads contribute somehow to their own undoing..
when thousands of amps flow, anything it flows thru (unless it's a super conductor) is going to heat up, melt, and vaporize in a fraction of a second. so instead of having a narrowly-focused stream of copper traveling at super-sonic speeds, you have a dispursed cloud (heat causes expansion -- hence 'unfocusing' the force) of copper vapor (and whatever the capacitor is made of) with a little unvaporized (or condensing?) liquid copper left over that is harmless to the vehicle's ordinary armor. it's a cleaver device. the reaction (the short circuit that causes the current to flow) starts before the projectile even fully penetrates the insulation between plates. i'm sure it wouldn't stop a heavy round like what tanks fire, but for RPGs it sounds like a great idea.
so make it more redundant. make the capacitors narrow slices with enough heat resistant insulation between capacitors to prevent one (having been hit) from triggering the others. if multiple shots are fired at it they may trigger different capacitors instead of being a total loss.
very true. what about a rpg with something on the tip to trigger the device prematurely, followed by its normal function
Is it our governments choice to tax us for whatever it pleases whenever it pleases? I thought we had a tea party centuries ago because of this. If a state government is going to tax custom software, what is the tax PAYER getting in return for the taxation? Where's the representation? Or is this a an attempt to raise money and nothing more? Is it even legal to do this? I wonder when we'll start to pay a 'creative tax', whereby anything creative created by anyone shall be fairly taxed by the state... indeed. America is quickly becoming a stinky hole of politics that goes waaaaay beyond the realm of 'governing the people'. It's a shame.
What... It took a professor and a student to concieve of this? It's childs play, and issuing a patent for this sort of thing seems useless, but who cares. This technique won't work on all P2P networks. DirectConnect (DC++ anyway) shows a hash code along with the search results. Simply ignore the files that have the same size and different hashes. If you download the wrong file to begin with, then download the other heh. Plus, the DC hub daemons seem to only allow 4 search results per person searched, so at worst, you could get 4 bogus hits from any one source of bogusness. In the ongoing war between anti- and pro-file swappers, technology WILL escalate until someone stays on top, and my guess is techniques like this won't keep traders down for long before they solve the 'problem' of fake file shares.
At no point should there *ever* be a law passed that benefits any one group of people and not others. Sure, anyone can contribute to the OS, but who's to say what an improvement is or isn't and how much that is worth in tax deductions. Fooey. This is a bad idea. It's far too subjective and extremely selective.
This article is totally obsurd. Pay close attention to the wording. These lines get my attention right away as being quietly deceptive:
"He found that the spheres could replicate by splitting into two." Indeed, the spheres may split in two parts, but how did they do it and do they done it on their own? What is "could" supposed to mean? A potential for division? Did HE split them? I don't see how the magnetic properties of this plasma would cause this to happen without external intervention.
"Under the right conditions they also got bigger, taking up neutral argon atoms and splitting them into ions and electrons to replenish their boundary layers." They "take up" atoms as in consumption, right? To me, it sounds like he's suggesting these gass balls have intent, as if the bubbles intended to separate some electrons from their atoms. Of course they don't think, so isn't it more likely that this is a natural effect of this process? Is this really 'eating', so-to-speak, or is it a self-sustaining 'effect'? What makes it different from a candle wick sucking up liquified wax? How many other reactions like this also qualify as a prerequisite for life?
"Finally, they could communicate information by emitting electromagnetic energy, making the atoms within other spheres vibrate at a particular frequency" Wait a second... How does "could communicate" mean they "are communicating". If this is just an unproven potential ability, then how dows that qualify it *currently* for this "communication" criterium of cellular life?
At the top of the article, it stated, "Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate - fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells." Have they truly fufilled these requirements, or just made a bunch of confusing analogies? Does this experiment prove that plasma can even operate using evolutionary mechanics? Such as distinction between plasma balls that influence its 'survival'? Is that distinction shared when it divides in two? Without properties like that, it couldn't evolve into anything more than what it is.
What makes these plasma bubbles any different from soap suds? They too can divide, consume, and communicate if you add as much speculation to the concept as this guy has. The candle example works too. A candle could be setup to divide, consume, and communicate in a similar manner.
I see no real proof of anything in this article except that argon plasma has some interesting characteristics. The plasma bubbles that this guy created don't communicate, have questionable "reproductive" and "consumption" abilities.