[Polpolion]

Burj Dubai? That's the first I've heard of that. Hmm, 818 metres tall when completed.

But you would see skyscrapers from the top. An Orion may be in any orientation.

Plus it's not like you have as much sunlight reflecting off of it. It's diluted by the atmosphere twice, as opposed to once when looking at an orbiting object from the ground. On top of that, it's much more likely to blend into the background on the planet's surface.

[DarthWang]

Harbinger is 5Gigatons and takes away 3200 hitpoints, puts 1 GT at 640 hitpoints.  Work out how many Gigatons of TNT would be needed to completely vaporise your moon and you have your answer.

You mean scatter its mass. Just vaporizing it won't destroy it, gravity will still hold the vapor together. GBE of the moon is approximately 1e29j.

1 gigaton is around 4.184e18j

So around 15,226,367,110,000 hp

[SpardaSon21]

Sounds like someone needs a good ol' Deathstar if they are planning on blowing up a moon...

[redsniper]

1. Bore hole into moon with beam cannons
2. Insert meson bomb or a hundred
3. Explode moon
4. ??????
5. PROFIT!


And to whoever mentioned the Gurren Lagann campaign, that was my idea, which makes this thread quite relevant to my interests.

[Killer Whale]

It says that the weapon is a graviton cannon. What does that do? How does it work? Cause if gravity is the main thing that holds a moon together...

[Polpolion]

It says that the weapon is a graviton cannon. What does that do? How does it work? Cause if gravity is the main thing that holds a moon together...

It probably shoots Gravitons at stuff.

[ShadowGorrath]

Check wikipedia on that.

And hey, I used to play OGame. With a FreeSpace Shivan OGame skin. And even wanted to make an OGame mod for FS, until I realised I can't get my models in-game. So I decided to use Inferno ships instead. Until I realised I can't FRED.

[Killer Whale]

that's what i'm thinking of doing, but a couple of things to realise yet

but the ships do look like they'd fit well in freespace

[Pred the Penguin]

I've thought about that, too!

[Killer Whale]

First: Find out functionality as fighting craft.
Second: Model Them
Third: Texture Them
Fourth: Table Them
Fifth: FRED Them
Sixth: Show em' off.

This topic is for number one, but does anyone have truespace? (i've got 7.6 but it isn't compat. with cobs and doesn't have trueview)

[ShadowGorrath]

I might do modeling and tabling, and possibly even FREDding, but not texturing.

Any chance to make this go serious?

[Pred the Penguin]

Wouldn't we have to make sure we can use those ship designs?

[ShadowGorrath]

Post on the forums then, I guess?

If we would use the EpicBlue skin's ships, then it's allright, since those are from other sci-fis...

[Rick James]

It is perhaps possible to destroy a moon-sized mass with multiple nuclear warheads embedded at the proper depth.

[Woolie Wool]

It says that the weapon is a graviton cannon. What does that do? How does it work? Cause if gravity is the main thing that holds a moon together...

Considering how weak gravity is, a graviton cannon would be pretty crappy compared to a laser, mass driver, or bomb.

[Kie99]

It is perhaps possible to destroy a moon-sized mass with multiple nuclear warheads embedded at the proper depth.

You'd need an ungodly amount of Warheads, or an incredibly powerful set of warheads to do that.  The Earth would be absolutely battered by Debris as well.

[Galemp]

Well, since this has drifted off-topic enough that the discussion is about how to destroy the Moon, I shall link to this and summarize below. Techniques are listed in order of plausibility.
Note that the link actually discusses destroying the Earth, but the same techniques apply. Recommended reading for all would-be evil overlords.

• 1. Annihilated by an equivalent quantity of antimatter

Create an entire moon made from antimatter and collide it with the real Moon. Alternately, depending on the technology you're using, flip half the Moon's mass to antimatter.

• 2. Fissioned

Take every single atom on the Moon and individually split each one down to become hydrogen and helium.

• 3. Sucked into a microscopic black hole

Simply place your black hole on the surface of the Moon and wait, while it sits and consumes matter until the whole Moon is gone.

• 4. Cooked in a solar oven

Focus an enormous array of mirrors to concentrate as much solar energy as you can directly on the Moon. This will cause the Moon to increase in temperature until it completely boils away, becoming a gas cloud.

A variation on this method involves turning the Sun into a gigantic hydrogen gas laser.

• 5. Overspun

Accelerate the Moon's rotation until it starts moving fast enough to overcome gravity and flies apart.

• 6. Blown up

Detonate a bomb so big that it blasts the Moon to pieces. You will need about 300,000,000,000 tonnes of antimatter.

• 7. Sucked into a giant black hole

Find a black hole and bring it and the Moon together (preferably by moving the Moon, otherwise Earth might get destroyed too.) Alternately, a neutron star might do the job.

• 8. Meticulously and systematically deconstructed

Dig up the Moon, a big chunk at a time, and boost the whole lot of it into orbit with mass drivers.

• 9. Pulverized by impact with blunt instrument

Find a really, really big asteroid, accelerate it up to some dazzling speed, and smash it into the Moon. Whatever you find would have to be almost as big as the Moon itself.

• 10. Hurled into the Sun

Similar technique to no. 7 but more convenient. If you're not bothered about Earth, you could just smash it into there instead.[/list]

[Killer Whale]

Vibrate the at a specific frequency so that it enters sub-space and enters some other spot, say; the core of the sun.

[terran_emperor]

Hit points of a moon?

Well, it depends on the size of the moon... I mean a moon the size of a tennis ball would only have hp in low double figures.

but using the sizes that imediatly come to mind when i think a moon id have say a few billion to a few trillion hp ---> In long scale.

Long scale Billion = a million million.

Long scale Trillion = a million million million

So x10¹² up to x10¹⁸

Basically higher than the mind can comfortably conceive

[JGZinv]

Send a speaker with a rocket engine attached to it... playing the worst memes of the internet toward a moon...
Rickroll... over 9000... Picard's Enterprise song...

It'll kill itself out of self preservation.

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...and yes that does make sense.