Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I wonder if this is akin to barging into the universe's bathroom...

and to think i was gonna hack into the power grid and build one in my basement.....how bout if i dial the power back and promise not to boil the fabric of space?.....im just gonna [bleep] with the fabric of space a lil.....i wanna see what happens when yah shoot it at a gopher.....

Sort of a super-duper 22-250 cal VMax on steroids, like.

thinking i can hit 6 ft to the right and still get him.....

wondering if the results are as bad as dividing by 0?

Probably worse...

Can you imagine the size of the capacitors they will be using to hold that charge? What happens if one of them lets go?

Can you say "The Worlds' Largest Electric Bomb?" I knew you could!

Ed

always wanted to be the first on my block to level a block......or three.....

Good point. Just to be safe use a big pile of 10pF caps.

Nearly happened in the States about twenty years ago when there was an outbreak of what was thought to be Ebola in [bleep] at a lab outside Washington..

Turned out not to be Ebola but a very similar virus that infected [bleep] but not humans..The US came very close to a major catastrophe as the authorities didn't think they would be able to control the outbreak once it got into the human population..

One of my BIL's used to work "pulsed power" projects for General Dynamics (military lasers) and currently (pun intended) holds the record for building the worlds' largest electric bomb. The capacitor they were testing, roughly twice the physical size of a 55 gal drum (he declined to give the capacity ), malfunctioned and destroyed the test chamber which was constructed of 6" thick reinforced concrete slabs, collapsing the roof, and blowing the walls out.

They successfully created the capacitors needed for the project and he has since moved on to other pulsed power projects for other companies.

Ed

that is an interesting story, scary chit....

ebola's a SOB but its not a nation wide killer.....time lag from initial infection to dead is to damn quick.....give a bug like ebola the flus life cycle and......well....we would prolly be begging for bothe the Spanish flu and Black Death to hit us at the same time instead....a zombie apocalypse would sound down right fun in comparison.....

Google "The Hot Zone" which is a book about the incident and IIRC the virus in question was about as contagious as flu, but luckily could not infect humans..

In another incident, a few years back a lab in the UK was shut down and a researcher got into a lot of trouble when it was discovered he was trying "cross" a form of cancer and a virus which causes the common cold..I don't recall the exact details, but I think it was a GM type experiment, but the problem was that it was being carried out in a lab with a very low bio security level. Quite why he was doing it or what he hope to achieve, I don't recall...

have read it.....with ebola is pretty contagious in some ways more so than the flu but its life cycle is so short and its lethality rate so high.....an entire ebola epidemic is measured in weeks.....from a similar starting population a bad flu bug will bounce around the globe for two years or more because its incubation period is much longer.....

in the scheme of things cause ebola is such a quick killer its actually fairly easy to contain....

got a good buddy thats a microbiologist and studies chit he cant talk to me about, ask him what he worries about and he wont tell yah some exotic disease like ebola even factoring an accident like happened at that [bleep] research facility....its something like the Spanish Flu.....its got the right life cycle to slingshot around for a long time ensuring that damn near everyone gets exposed.....

ebola has a higher lethality rate, usually well over 70% infected die.....but a 70% lethality isnt much when yah measure the amount of ppl exposed in the hundreds or thousands.....a 3%(low end figure on the spanish flu) mortality rate dont sound like much till you figure the flu lives long enough to get exposed to billions....

I sometimes wonder about this kind of stuff. With the universe being so vast there has to be other intelligent life. I wonder if it is typical for technology to advance at a rate that the typical race wipes itself out most of the time by messing with chit they don't comprehend.

Hopefully they will not push the earth off of its orbit. The recoil from a laser that size should be astonomical.

Th Darwin effect on a galactic scale?

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Did you ever wonder why so many galaxies contain large black holes? Might be nature's Darwin Award for those who poke around with the fabric of space time.

Sounds like a severe case of over penetration.

omg! if the shot is made from the wrong direction, the earthen might stop it's traditional spin? and if it stops spinning, it might fall over on it's side and go wobbling through the heavens, before stopping at the edge of a great abyss??

You know, when they detonated the first atom bomb they had no way of knowing that the reaction would stop. Speculation was that it could have gone on until the earth was consumed.

When they detonated the hydrogen bomb one of the scientists said that for a few moments he thought they lit the atmosphere on fire.

Who know when they could be right. They only have to be right one time.

It should come as no surprise.... Obviously it's to increase food production.

It's for the children.