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WCDT Strips 3461-3465 (17-21 April 2017)
Case:
--- Quote from: Akima on 19 Apr 2017, 16:54 ---I'll defer to people with greater knowledge of physics on the effect of EMP weapons, and whether it would be possible, or useful, to tune them to specific targets.
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Yeah, so I dug a bit farther into typical EMP pulse-shapes, and the most common (according to the non-classified literature on EMP-weapons, or shielding) is apparently neither the Gaussian (cf. my post), nor the rectangle-function (cf. Pauls), but the so called 'double-exponential pulse-shape':
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f[t]:=A(Exp[-a*t]-Exp[-b*t])*Heaviside(t),
where a and b are positive real numbers that are connected to charging and discharging coefficients/times(cales). Apparently, there is a certain amount of flexibility to shape the pulse, and thereby tune those parameters a and b.
Now this pulse-shape looks quite straightforward, but its spectrum has an imaginary component:
f*[w]:=A(1/(w+I*a)-1/(w+I*b))
So this is still a so-called "ultra-wideband" spectral distribution (As Paul & I laid out, any signal that is pulsed in time will be) - but it has minima & maxima. If those can be tuned ... I'll (have to) look into it a bit more. (There goes my "submit paper this month"-milestone)
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--- Quote from: Case on 19 Apr 2017, 04:54 ---Methinks the hard part would then be to isolate those leads from her insides, if necessary, or design the leads such that they burn through on their own in case of a current surge.
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Optical isolation would work, I think. That is, have the antennae outside the protective cage connected to some circuitry to convert the electrical signal into a modulated light-beam that is fed into a fibre-optic passed through the cage, and then convert the light-signal back into electrical inside.
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snufflebottoms:
Have we passed the point where it is now reasonable to say that Faye and Bubbles would make a lovely couple? Claire obviously ships it. Dora seems to have picked up on it too. I can't recall but I think Tai said something as well.
blt:
--- Quote from: Akima on 19 Apr 2017, 16:54 ---I suppose Creepybot and her associates might have provided a simply-operated EMP equivalent of an IED to a guerrilla force ("Put it over there and press this button when the enemy reaches that spot"), but I don't see them mass-producing artillery pieces.
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We can't really discount an asymmetrical force though. Artillery could just be mortars.
I'm curious about whatever Bubbles may have been deployed against too, especially since we know that it must have been at least somewhat covert by her inclusion. To me that points to an irregular enemy.
shanejayell:
--- Quote from: snufflebottoms on 19 Apr 2017, 19:40 ---Have we passed the point where it is now reasonable to say that Faye and Bubbles would make a lovely couple? Claire obviously ships it. Dora seems to have picked up on it too. I can't recall but I think Tai said something as well.
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They certainly are adorable. :-D
Case:
Wrapping folk up like a burrito is lurve! :venonat:
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