Originally posted by jaden101
200 gigatons = 200,000 megatons which is more than the entire yield of all the worlds nuclear weapons combined which themselves are capable of destroying everything on the surface of the earth 3 times over...So yes...a 200 gigaton shot should be able to destroy all life on a planet in a single shot...Yet it can apparently barely damage an unshielded hanger deck on an SW ship.
Wipe out all life with 200 gigatons possibly, but not literally destroy the planet.
Is there a difference between practically immune to damage (centerpoint station) and completely immune to damage (Krenim time ship)...Why yes...I believe there is.
Actually, in this case there isn't that much of a difference; Centerpoint station can be damaged by some Star Wars weapons but when it comes to Star Trek non god like beings little short of planet busters would take out Centerpoint station.
The Federation has thousands of colonized planets...So either your calculations are wrong or you have no clue about ST...or both...I'm guessing (knowing) it's the latter option.
Yet many of those are colonies dependent on the member worlds.
We have millions of planets vs thousands of planets. In fact, Coruscant outnumbers the entire Federation; Coruscant's population estimate ranges from a trillion to hundreds of trillions.
You do realise that both the galaxies are equal in size yet there is the same number of worlds in Borg space alone (quoted from a Voyager episode) as there is in the entire SW galaxy...So it would be safe to say that ST has the planetary numbers sown up.
Since when do the borg have millions of planets?
Except that I have...I've given the names of the species...Your continuing to deny it is petty childish trolling and EXACTLY THE SAME THING HWKA DID.
How is that proof? You give me a bunch of names of species without giving a source and without giving proof that transwarp was MASS PRODUCED by those species.
I posted a link and I used quoted masses from ST for a mark II photon torpedo's (which can utilise over 200kg of matter/antimatter in a reaction) which gives off a yield (using real world physics) of over 600 gigatons....That's a relatively weak photon torpedo (which the Borg adapted to and remained undamaged from after a single encounter with the Enterprise D) which are several times weaker than quantum torpedoes (Which the Borg also adapted to after only 2 known encounters in TNG and First Contact) which are weaker still compared with transphasic torpedoes. (which the Borg weren't shown to adapt to merely because they were only used in the last scenes of the last episode shown in the ST timeline (Voyager Endgame)
1. You haven't specified the density
2. You haven't specified the efficiency
3. You haven't specified the amount of the torpedo that would interact with the antimatter since some of it would be engines and such.
4. In the TV shows they clearly don't explode with 600 gigatons of energy.
5. You do understand that most of the energy would not actually hit the target, right?
6. I did some math, and his/her calculations do not seem to be correct in terms of max theoretical yield. Based on his/her wording the 690 gigatons claim appears to be based on the rate of energy release (although there wouldn't be 690 gigatons to release).
So I've shown the the Borg adapt to technology and biology in many different ways and even given examples of them doing this yet you're still claiming I've stated the the Borg rely solely on adapting to frequencies in order to assimilate technology.
You haven't proven that they can adapt to Star Wars tech.
So basically you're a liar and troll and simply ignoring anything that proves you wrong?...Which...guess what?....IS EXACTLY WHAT HWKA USED TO DO....SHOCKAROONI.
Show me one example, if you can, in which The Nuul made a meaningful argument in this thread.
Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
That isn't actually true, I don't think. The largest and least common nuke we have can affect 1000 square miles of land. Considering Earth is around 150 million square miles... even if every single nuclear warhead we have was launched, and hypothetically they were of the same size as our largest payload, the destructive radius would very little of the total area that humans live on.
Right. The radiation would be the dangerous factor, not necessarily the fireballs (although those would be dangerous too).