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Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ

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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by Dilandu   » Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:20 pm

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n7axw wrote:You are referring to the great Temple Loyalist turkey shoot? :lol:

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For Langhorne sake, the illusionists, able to make a battery of 12-pound gun disappear and reappear under the eyes of Charisians, are pretty rare! They would make a tremendous circus career! :D
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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by n7axw   » Sun Nov 02, 2014 6:01 pm

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Dilandu wrote:
n7axw wrote:You are referring to the great Temple Loyalist turkey shoot? :lol:

Don


For Langhorne sake, the illusionists, able to make a battery of 12-pound gun disappear and reappear under the eyes of Charisians, are pretty rare! They would make a tremendous circus career! :D


Especially if it disappeared going BOOM! :twisted:

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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by lyonheart   » Mon Nov 03, 2014 2:28 am

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Hi Don,

If Merlin and Nahrmahn were to engineer a mini rakurai of only a kiloton or so, probably less, they'd really make that 12 pounder disappear!

L


n7axw wrote:
Dilandu wrote:*quote="n7axw"*
You are referring to the great Temple Loyalist turkey shoot? :lol:

Don*quote*

For Langhorne sake, the illusionists, able to make a battery of 12-pound gun disappear and reappear under the eyes of Charisians, are pretty rare! They would make a tremendous circus career! :D


Especially if it disappeared going BOOM! :twisted:

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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by Tanstaafl   » Mon Nov 03, 2014 3:53 pm

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lyonheart wrote:Hi Don,

If Merlin and Nahrmahn were to engineer a min rakurai of only a kiloton or so, probably less, they'd really make that 12 pounder disappear!

L



The black powder equivalent of 1,000,000kg TNT is quiet a mountain.
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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by Joat42   » Tue Nov 04, 2014 5:43 am

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Tanstaafl wrote:
lyonheart wrote:Hi Don,

If Merlin and Nahrmahn were to engineer a min rakurai of only a kiloton or so, probably less, they'd really make that 12 pounder disappear!

L

The black powder equivalent of 1,000,000kg TNT is quite a mountain.

There has been some studies on what the equivalency-factors are for TNT vs black-powder, the RE-factor for black-powder is 0.55, ie. 1.82 (1/0.55) kiloton of black-powder is the equivalent of 1 kiloton of TNT. The density of black-powder and TNT only has a difference of ~3% so it wouldn't be a mountain, just a slightly larger pile of black-powder (~25% bigger). :geek:

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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by Tanstaafl   » Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:59 pm

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lyonheart wrote:Hi Don,

If Merlin and Nahrmahn were to engineer a min rakurai of only a kiloton or so, probably less, they'd really make that 12 pounder disappear!

L
Tanstaafl wrote:The black powder equivalent of 1,000,000kg TNT is quite a mountain.
Joat42 wrote:There has been some studies on what the equivalency-factors are for TNT vs black-powder, the RE-factor for black-powder is 0.55, ie. 1.82 (1/0.55) kiloton of black-powder is the equivalent of 1 kiloton of TNT. The density of black-powder and TNT only has a difference of ~3% so it wouldn't be a mountain, just a slightly larger pile of black-powder (~25% bigger). :geek:

I am dutch, we call that a mountain. :-)
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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by PeterZ   » Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:05 pm

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Tanstaafl wrote:
lyonheart wrote:Hi Don,

If Merlin and Nahrmahn were to engineer a min rakurai of only a kiloton or so, probably less, they'd really make that 12 pounder disappear!

L
Tanstaafl wrote:The black powder equivalent of 1,000,000kg TNT is quite a mountain.
Joat42 wrote:There has been some studies on what the equivalency-factors are for TNT vs black-powder, the RE-factor for black-powder is 0.55, ie. 1.82 (1/0.55) kiloton of black-powder is the equivalent of 1 kiloton of TNT. The density of black-powder and TNT only has a difference of ~3% so it wouldn't be a mountain, just a slightly larger pile of black-powder (~25% bigger). :geek:

I am dutch, we call that a mountain. :-)


C'mon! Anything above sea level is a mountain for a Nederlander.
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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by mark   » Wed Nov 05, 2014 3:46 am

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PeterZ wrote:C'mon! Anything above sea level is a mountain for a Nederlander.

Naah, most of that we call dikes. Got to keep the sea out somehow.
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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by pokermind   » Wed Nov 05, 2014 6:30 am

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Reminds me of a billboard I saw in North Dakota saying:
Welcome to North Dakota
Mountain Removal Project
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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by saber964   » Thu Nov 06, 2014 7:32 pm

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Tanstaafl wrote:
lyonheart wrote:Hi Don,

If Merlin and Nahrmahn were to engineer a min rakurai of only a kiloton or so, probably less, they'd really make that 12 pounder disappear!

L
Tanstaafl wrote:The black powder equivalent of 1,000,000kg TNT is quite a mountain.
Joat42 wrote:There has been some studies on what the equivalency-factors are for TNT vs black-powder, the RE-factor for black-powder is 0.55, ie. 1.82 (1/0.55) kiloton of black-powder is the equivalent of 1 kiloton of TNT. The density of black-powder and TNT only has a difference of ~3% so it wouldn't be a mountain, just a slightly larger pile of black-powder (~25% bigger). :geek:

I am dutch, we call that a mountain. :-)



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