Explosive Soccer
Deep Kimchi
06-02-2006, 20:03
What will the US be building next? Well, perhaps much smaller bombs that have bigger explosions than the 2000-lb one we drop now.
http://www-cms.llnl.gov/s-t/ex_soccer.html
Good idea, or wrong direction? Or will some other country eventually do this research as well, and develop such weapons?
Psychotic Mongooses
06-02-2006, 20:08
What will the US be building next? Well, perhaps much smaller bombs that have bigger explosions than the 2000-lb one we drop now.
http://www-cms.llnl.gov/s-t/ex_soccer.html
Good idea, or wrong direction? Or will some other country eventually do this research as well, and develop such weapons?
A soccer-ball shaped molecule....?
They mean.... 'round'?
Deep Kimchi
06-02-2006, 20:10
A soccer-ball shaped molecule....?
They mean.... 'round'?
N60 would be like a soccer-ball. N8 would be a cube.
N8 would be four times more explosive power than any current conventional explosive, per unit weight.
So a US 500-lb Mk 82 using such an explosive would be equivalent to the US 2000-lb Mk 84.
The Squeaky Rat
06-02-2006, 20:23
A soccer-ball shaped molecule....?
They mean.... 'round'?
A sphere made of lots of hexagons - which indeed is pretty close to a football.
Iztatepopotla
06-02-2006, 20:35
A soccer-ball shaped molecule....?
They mean.... 'round'?
Buckminsterfullerene. An amazingly useful wholly new way to shape matter. You'll be hearing a lot about it in the coming decade.