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Quantum Vibe / Re: Bubbleopolis risks
« Last post by Apollo-Soyuz on December 06, 2019, 04:16:35 pm »However, I suspect the real target isn't bubbleopolis, but that neo-prim colony we saw. Even a hit on the night side would kill everything on the day side, at least eventually, and probably pretty quickly.
In this, a distributed habitat such as bubbleopolis should have a much better survival probability than a typical planet.
page=2026, panel 2, "250 kilometers"
so given assumptions on the mass needed to make humans happy with the gravity, the settlement isn't the entire planet.
page=2025
>Caption: A new settlement on Nyumbani, in the galaxy NGC 4438.
I don't think it's worth the effort for such a weapon, you're attacking a mud hut with a neutron bomb, and once people see what the weapon can do they can create countermeasures.
Nine/tenths of the speed of light is 269813 Kilometers per second
strip?page=2024 says the first shield is 45,000,000 km out so I'm getting 167 seconds of warning before impact with the first Borvonite sphere. (Somebody check my math.)
If the spheres can ID the threat, and then move aside, that could be a valid defense. but it would probably take a successful attack before that defense could be developed.
The other defense I can think of is to pop a small Borvonite sphere in the trajectory of the missile to cause it to strike a glancing blow and then miss the main target. The sooner this is done, the smaller delta-v you need to impart to get a clean miss