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Raistlin Majare 1992 wrote...
Just found really good reason nukes are not used for ship to ship combat.
The force and heat effect of nuke is purely limted to an atmosphere. The radiation of the atomic bomb disperses in the form of heat and force through the air around it, but without an atmosphere the nuke delivers its entire payload purely in the form of radiation.
So unless the Reapers are planetside the nukes have zero effect...
Oh and even planetside you need to place a nuke spot on for full effect. To put it like this the Hiroshima bomb exploded for a heat of 300.000 Kelvin at the center...the ground however, 400 m below was only affected with a heat of 6.000 Kelvin...
Prety drastic drop, so unless that nuke gets really close (like how the Korgan and Turian smuggled a few inside Reapers) I dont think there will be much of an effect.
Wow. Sten?
Thanks, Sten.
Do you know what the difference is between a star and a gas giant? The mass of a star allows it to sustain nuclear fusion at its core. That's why they tend to be hot and explodey. If the heat from fusion completely dissipated outside of an atmosphere, then the sun wouldn't be heating the solar system. And... well... it is.
And again, comparing the Hiroshima nuke to one that would be used on Reapers in Mass Effect would be akin to comparing a starter's pistol to this thing. If you simply mean that only very close to the blast would take full effect, that's true. Which is why I said the hard part would be getting the nuke to a Reaper.
bigstig wrote...
Just adding the the whole "nuke" debate.
I always thought that that the universe as a whole generally condemmend the use of nuclear weapons and had advanced beyond the need for nuclear weapons. Rememebr back in ME1 you had a side mission where you had to disarm satellites that were tipped with a nuclear payload to stop any would be thieves recovering our technology. At the time you had to do it before the coucil found out as it was a reckless action to have nuclear bobby traps.
I think that was just because it's kind of a douchebag thing to do to booby trap it with a city-destroyer when all they were trying to do was destroy the probe itself if it was caught.
The only other instances of nuclear weaponary that I found was about Tuchanka(which happened prior to the Rachni wars), or Tyvor(who commited suicide by detonating their weapons rather than being captured)
Fission bombs were used in the war on Palaven. Likely because fusion bombs would just be overkill from inside and the Reapers were still on Palaven itself. I'm sure if it was an engagement in space and collateral damage wasn't an issue they'd use fusion bombs. Also, Udina mentions that one of the Reapers' first targets on Earth were the nuclear missile silos. This shows that a) a council species is still nuclear armed and
the Reapers considered those weapons to be a threat. It's been a looooong time since I've played ME1 (Mmm, maybe that's what I'll do while I wait for them to fix multiplayer...) I'm pretty sure there were mentions of them on Noveria.Raistlin Majare 1992 wrote...
You know that actually amkes alot of sense. If Sanctuary was actaully a threat they wanted gone quickly the Reaper would simply have "taken a few shots from Space."
YES. Gawd, finally. Someone gets that. The Reapers never considered Sanctuary a serious threat, they were just doing what they always do: reap. Reapers gonna reap.
Some people dident know of the Nagasaki bomb...seriusly?
I was having a conversation with someone about WWII a few years back. I forget what I said that triggered it but my 16 year old niece overheard part of it, gasped, and asked in a hushed tone, "Hitler was real?!" I just stared at her speechless.
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