Re: [TML] Fueling from an icy asteroid or rock? Jeffrey Schwartz 09 Dec 2014 14:31 UTC
I'm kinda wondering if using the _ship's_ lasers for this would be the easy solution to the problem. Stand off by 10km, and bathe the ice-ball in 150Mj of laser mojo until it is vapor. Then move in and skim the vapor. On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Ian Whitchurch <xxxxxx@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Also, Our Heroes will almost certainly want to use any laser rifles etc >> they have as melting tools. Let them :) > > > > PC 1: "Ummmm. Are you sure about this?" > PC 2: "Yah. It'll be fine. And much faster. Here goes . . ." > > BOOOM!! > > PC 3 (from the safety of the engine room, as the hull breach alarm starts > clanging): "I told that idiot you can't flash-heat solid ice like that . . > .." > > -- > Richard Aiken > > "Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein > "A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the > advice." - Bill Cosby > "We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." > Dean Winchester > > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com > To unsubscribe from this list please goto > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=vSy3NFQJMSbZKrzPfC3XucFBsUCMtKrI