antimatter weaponry
 

that's right, the future is now. I'm not that interest in the military weapon use of antimatter, but as a feul for rocket ships is pretty kick ass. here is the link.antimatter and the air force

Goddammit, there goes the fucking planet.

Leave it to the U.S. Government to not be satisfied with the most powerful weapons ever made, now they want some of the most powerful weapons that can be made.

And with how well the government seems to do advanced techs(NASA) they'll probably forget a conversion and blow the planet out of orbit.

First off, someone reads Fark. :)

Second off.. It is deplorable that the armed forces are looking to use this as a weapon. If we could figure out a way to make batteries off of these babies, we would be in high cotton as far as portable power goes. Forget power outages, every house could be run on a AAA battery. :)

I know that much of our civilian technology is derived from older military technology, but just once I would like to see someone say "I know we can use this to make HUGE ASS BOMBS, but how much more good would it do in the civillian sector.

Can anyone say photon torpedoes?

Aye Capt'n, I be given her all she's got........BOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!

This sounds like nonesense to me.

I can't imagine it working anytime in the near (even mid-) term future. They can't even get their anti-missle technology working!


Mr Mephisto

That's why I think their just gonna knock the planet out of orbit, their gonna try to store just a little bit too much, and the container is gonna fail, and byebye humanity.

You probably know this, but I'm going to be anal retentive anyways. Photons aren't antimatter. :P

Photon torpedoes are anti-matter bombs. In Star Trek land, anways.

If we're going to do research, we need to start somewhere. Developing weapons is one of the best ways to get a lot of money devoted to something that might otherwise have not been studied at all. Nuclear power, for example, stemmed off of the Manhattan Project's attempt to develop nuclear weapons. A similar thing will happen (eventually) with anti-matter research.

The problem is that the amount of energy needed to produce antimatter is above and beyond what we would get out of it. Until we develop an energy-efficient manner of producing antimatter, then the only feasible use for this stuff is either as a battery or as a weapon.

The amount of antimatter needed to cause an explosion the size of a nuclear bomb is currently beyond the planet's financial ability to pay for. I'm not worried.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that the government would at least make an assesment of any potential technologies - not only for domestic research and development but also to evaluate the threat of its development under a foreign power. Doesn't really mean that it's even possible. Honestly, at this time it's entirely impractical to impliment, so I wouldn't worry. But it shouldn't surprise anyone that someone's looked into it.