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Photon hits Galaxy-class stardrive section
« on: December 19, 2020, 08:54:11 pm »


The blast seems to melt about 20g of steel, so the energy needed is about 150000 joules (0.15 megajoules). So the yield of the torpedo is about 36g of TNT. [1] Probably set to half-yield for some reason. (These estimations are likely high, too.)
Confidence: 6/10

[1]: https://www.justintools.com/unit-conversion/energy.php?k1=joules&k2=grams-of-TNT
« Last Edit: January 13, 2022, 10:42:54 am by Dutch »
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