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The Baron's Body Double  Joined: Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:23 pm Posts: 3121 Location: South of Boston 
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 Re: RobuttsActually yes. It's 3 orders of magnitude too low. Lightning is in the range of a Terawatt. 1000 Gigawats.
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| Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:24 pm |
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Teller of gaming stories  Joined: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:36 pm Posts: 986 Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Re: Robutts So, the DeLorean would have exploded. Or blown a fuse, depending on how safety-conscious Doc Brown engineers things. The guy who put a nuclear reactor in it. And stole the uranium. Or was it plutonium?
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| Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:18 pm |
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Hussey Fluffer  Joined: Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:44 pm Posts: 18049 Location: Sitting in Judgement from the Oval Office
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Re: Robutts Ardent Finder wrote: So, the DeLorean would have exploded. Or blown a fuse, depending on how safety-conscious Doc Brown engineers things. The guy who put a nuclear reactor in it. And stole the uranium. Or was it plutonium? Pretty sure it was plutonium. So yeah, exploded. Possibly irradiated the city with whatever radioactive doodlybobbers were left active in it, too. _________________ Chad wrote: Let me tell you some things I don't do: I don't do Women. - FtB, Ep88, 36:46 Chad wrote: Oh my god, I love the Boys! FtB, Ep144, 35:05 PS. Fuck you Cafepress |
| Sun Apr 08, 2012 12:48 pm |
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The Baron's Body Double Joined: Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:23 pm Posts: 3121 Location: South of Boston
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Re: Robutts Azhrei Vep wrote: Ardent Finder wrote: So, the DeLorean would have exploded. Or blown a fuse, depending on how safety-conscious Doc Brown engineers things. The guy who put a nuclear reactor in it. And stole the uranium. Or was it plutonium? Pretty sure it was plutonium. So yeah, exploded. Possibly irradiated the city with whatever radioactive doodlybobbers were left active in it, too. One thing the movie got right was the back of the DeLorian was basally 1 large lead box. It would take a pretty good explosion to crack that baby open. Oh an interesting figure I just calculated, A bolt of lightning has about the equivalent energy of 7.5 tons of TNT. _________________ I have a rating of 5 on the TVI.
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( 1. Numbered List ( 2. Dan ) 3. Venn Diagram )  Joined: Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:15 pm Posts: 4254 Location: Fort Collins, CO
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Re: Robutts Ardent Finder wrote: So, the DeLorean would have exploded. Or blown a fuse, depending on how safety-conscious Doc Brown engineers things. The guy who put a nuclear reactor in it. And stole the uranium. Or was it plutonium? Given that the DeLorean is a faraday cage on wheels, it would have been fine. The lightning would have hugged the exterior, gone into the ground, and been done with. _________________ "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." George Bernard Shaw |
| Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:46 am |
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ZCE's Grandmother's Quantum Cat  Joined: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:02 pm Posts: 5564
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Re: Robutts Hm... Maybe the excessively high wattage is actually required to deal with the natural insulation?
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( 1. Numbered List ( 2. Dan ) 3. Venn Diagram )  Joined: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:28 pm Posts: 4452 Location: indy
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Re: Robutts    _________________ Mobius04 wrote: Shifty, cutting out some eye holes and drawing a wicked sweet orc face on the front of his paper sack. |
| Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:07 pm |
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The Baron's Body Double Joined: Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:23 pm Posts: 3121 Location: South of Boston
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Re: Robutts Knaight wrote: Ardent Finder wrote: So, the DeLorean would have exploded. Or blown a fuse, depending on how safety-conscious Doc Brown engineers things. The guy who put a nuclear reactor in it. And stole the uranium. Or was it plutonium? Given that the DeLorean is a faraday cage on wheels, it would have been fine. The lightning would have hugged the exterior, gone into the ground, and been done with. But the DeLorian wasn't getting struck. It was the hook attached to the cars electronics. So even given the shell of the car would protect the occupations if it got struck the transformer would have gotten a direct strike. _________________ I have a rating of 5 on the TVI.
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:48 pm |
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The Baron's Body Double Joined: Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:23 pm Posts: 3121 Location: South of Boston
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Re: Robutts ShiftyRifter wrote: What's this one from? _________________ I have a rating of 5 on the TVI.
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:50 pm |
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I am the story stick  Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:02 am Posts: 1326 Location: Netherlands
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Re: Robutts N00b13 wrote: What's this one from? Google informed me that it's from deviantart. Just a random drawing from someone. _________________ Nine out of ten science frogs say any mistake in grammar and/or spelling in the above post is merely a figment of your imagination. |
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