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ONI: That would be a good plan, considering the amount of heat it will create. Maybe 6-8 of them, spaced along the barrel...

APDAF: You said nothing about radiators. How is the coilgun heat vented into space. It cant be. You cant dump hot air, you cant afford too. You have to radiate it, and that takes time, considering how big it is.
Lack of crew means nothing. This thing is made of relatively soft metals with low melting points.

No it's not. Even the most remote areas of space as at least a couple of Kelvin.
Closer to home in the space around earth the temperatures gets much higher. Around 500K if memory serves.
That reminds me, keeping this thing straight is also going to be a major issue due to the enormous temperature differences between light and shadow.
Anyway, even if space were as cold as you claim it also happens to be a vacuum. And it just so happens that vacuum is mod of the best insulators known to man.
Its how thermos work

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barnest2: I thought as much, funny enough though is I numbered the sections, and placing each on every other section spaces it out real well.

As for you APDAF, I'm pretty much convinced that you are around 11-14 years of age.

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I am older than that it is just that the auto-spell checker is making me use small words.

Its not the words APDAF, it's the complete failure to understand basic thermodynamics, a subject taught to 14-15 year olds.

APDAF: It's not your use of certain words, it's your lack of knowledge on high school subjects, and for me, your reluctance to listen to suggestions, in your threads, frankly it reminds me of the actions of a pre or young teen.

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If it suits your curiosity, here is the original "space cruiser". http://darkproxy.deviantart.com/art/Ohi ... -254941921

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Egads that is bad. Even with in the settings rather shaky logic.

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I know.

I never really got his logic in the name USS Ohio being able to confuse enemy spies, considering the construction of these guns wouldn't be a well kept secret, or even a secret in the first place. That and by that time, the Ohio Class submarines would have been retired. I only kept the name Ohio to fit it in with Darkproxy's already written works.

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Recoil is a function of momentum, and therefore of velocity (v̅ ) and mass (m).

APDAF, you are not getting basic thermodynamics concepts correct.

Edit -Woohoo finally got v-bar to work

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