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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] "Unrealistic? I'd think there would be plenty of matter lying around to annihilate with the antimatter. I'm sure the torpedo case itself is more then 1.5kg [Wink] . You don't need to get special matter to annihilate the antimatter and try to get them to collide just right!" 1.) The 3 kilogram payload (half deuterium, half antideuterium) is, I think, from the technical manual, though I got it, again, off some website. 2.) The unrealistic part is expecting every bit of antimatter to meet up with and annihilate every bit of matter. It's an unrealistic but useful mathematical abstraction, like the ideal gas law. Obviously, you could build a matter/antimatter weapon of arbitrary size. (Isn't that exactly what they do to blow up that giant space amoeba?) I'm just going with what my (brief and lazy) research returned as the "official" figures. Also, I guess you could say that torpedoes are unguided because we usually don't see them fly around, but, again, that's a dramatic (and cost-saving!) thing. Torpedoes certainly zoomed around to find targets in "Way of the Warrior." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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