NationStates Jolt Archive


Rather Convenient Acquires Anti-Matter Technology

15-01-2004, 05:17
As part of our efforts to transform our nation into a space-faring power, we have been working actively to acquire the necessary technologies to do so. As you all know, one of the needed components to build ships that are able to remain in space for long periods of time is a powerful, stable, source of energy. And we are pleased to announce that today, we took a giant step forward, and acquired the technology necessary to construct a Anti-Matter Reactor from The Technophilic Kingdom of Moontian. We thank them for their sale.

We hope that this technology will propel our ships, which have yet to be constructed, into deep space. We have recieved assurances the technology is reliable and safe, and we also promise not to accidentally blow up the planet while working with it. Anti-matter used to be an extremely expensive fuel source, but new advances have significantly reduced the costs involved with the production of it.

http://www.aps.org/meet/CENT99/vpr/cowanf1.jpg
The basic explaination is that we used an extremely high-powered laser, and fired it at gold foil. This contained unexpected results, and because the first recorded case of laser-induced fission, as well as the creation of positrons using a laser. Currently, we have 2 grams within our possession, and are currently producing 9.32E11 positrons per hour, although we expect to increase this number greatly.

OOC: I'm no physics student, please ignore any errors in the post :P