Antimatter Cloud Discovered - IT'S MINING TIME BOYS - Polidicks

God, where was this when the U.S.S Voyager needed it?! they were always running out of antimatter

[quote]he cloud extends farther on the western side of the galactic center than it does on the eastern side[/quote] East and West relative to what?

Buzzkill time! Good luck seeing reliable transportation that far out in OUR lifetime! Who knows. Maybe aperture science will resurface and shoot a portal at a planet nearby! Hope it doesn't suck out/poison our atmosphere!

[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/terminology.png[/img] Before anyone says "The Earth".

[QUOTE=Quo Vadi;21820093]Actually, it wouldn't be all that big. People overrate antimatter's yield.[/QUOTE] Assuming the average weight of a human hand, it's only 3.146*10^16 joules of energy. Which is roughly 1/6th of all energy from the sun on earth in one second. or maybe for better comparison, 7519 kilotons of TNT. The littleboy nuke was roughly 15 kilotons.

FFFFF automerge

[QUOTE=Quo Vadi;21820093]Actually, it wouldn't be all that big. People overrate antimatter's yield.[/QUOTE] One human gives 14400000000000000000j of energy, assuming the human weighs 80kg and the antimatter it collides with is of equal mass. [QUOTE=Canuhearme?;21820101]By the time we develop technology to travel to the Core, survive the intense bombardment of gamma rays, and be able to actually get out of that gravitational death-trap alive, I doubt we'll even really need to mine that antimatter.[/QUOTE] Because waves of energy really do damage to us.

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;21820101]By the time we develop technology to travel to the Core, survive the intense bombardment of gamma rays, and be able to actually get out of that gravitational death-trap alive, I doubt we'll even really need to mine that antimatter.[/QUOTE] [img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/masseffect/images/1/11/Mass_Effect_Normandy_SR2.png[/img] Upgrading is such a pain in the ass.

[QUOTE=playelite;21820040]I want to eat antimatter.[/QUOTE] Probably be like pop rocks

Antimatter would be able to power the planet!!! Or destroy us all much more likely

[QUOTE=Quo Vadi;21820093]Actually, it wouldn't be all that big. People overrate antimatter's yield.[/QUOTE] Yes because you have seen a large anti-matter cloud explode.

[QUOTE=Akayz;21820461]Antimatter would be able to power the planet!!! Or destroy us all much more likely[/QUOTE] If it killed us all, it's probably take less than a few minutes. It's just be like [img_thumb]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs31/f/2008/213/3/f/Cosmic_explosion_wallpaper_by_sebastian1991.jpg[/img_thumb] (img_thumb'd for size)

[QUOTE=redonkulous;21819876]If the whole "There is an antimatter thing for every normal matter thing" theory is true (it isn't). I totally want to go out by giving my counterpart a high five.[/QUOTE] ...let me just correct you here. There is an anti [b]particle[/b] for every [b]particle[/b]

[QUOTE=BAZ;21819915]It's possible there's a whole universe made from anti-matter. [b]There's also theories that the universe started as anti-matter and matter, but for some reason still unknown, matter came out ontop.[/b][/QUOTE] Like HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. The universe is just one giant Blu-Ray disk.

[QUOTE=Sickle;21820524]Yes because you have seen a large anti-matter cloud explode.[/QUOTE] It can be calculated. However 50% of the matter/antimatter reaction is lost as completely harmless neutrinos.

[QUOTE=the_KMM;21820534]If it killed us all, it's probably take less than a few minutes. It's just be like [img_thumb]http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs31/f/2008/213/3/f/Cosmic_explosion_wallpaper_by_sebastian1991.jpg[/img_thumb] (img_thumb'd for size)[/QUOTE] It's not a chain reaction, unlike a nuclear reaction. One particle has to annihilate with an antiparticle. [editline]10:26PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Eudoxia;21820563]It can be calculated. However 50% of the matter/antimatter reaction is lost as completely harmless neutrinos.[/QUOTE] Which is why you only get 1x E=mc^2 rather than two.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;21820563]It can be calculated. However 50% of the matter/antimatter reaction is lost as completely harmless neutrinos.[/QUOTE] It is now my life's goal to blow up the universe with that cloud and it's all your fucking fault.

[QUOTE=Sickle;21820034]Hey guys, newsflash; It's in the centre of the fucking galaxy, not even my spaceship in Spore can get there without [b]getting attacked by stuff and dying.[/b][/QUOTE] For some reason I don't think that'll be the issue.

[QUOTE=Sickle;21820590]It is now my life's goal to blow up the universe with that cloud and it's all your fucking fault.[/QUOTE] It's not easy moving masses of the same magnitude as the cloud into it. Unless of course it's your mother.

[QUOTE=bravehat;21820620]For some reason I don't think that'll be the issue.[/QUOTE] Well, you can never be quite sure. For that reason imma bring a few marines, railguns, and Sigourney Weaver.

Antimatter? In the galactic center? Something doesn't make sense here... At any rate: There are numerous problems here. For example distance. The galactic center is about 25 000 lightyears away. As you all (I hope) know, c = about 300 000 Km/s, which makes a lightyear about 9,5x10^12 Km. That is a very long distance, and it must still be multiplied by 25 000, easiest done with (9,5x10^12)x25 000. (I just wrote this in case of idiots) Even at the speed of light, that would take 25 000 years, therefore making the mining impractical. See the problem?

[QUOTE=Herr Sven;21820673]Antimatter? In the galactic center? Something doesn't make sense here... At any rate: There are numerous problems here. For example distance. The galactic center is about 25 000 lightyears away. As you all (I hope) know, c = about 300 000 Km/s, which makes a lightyear about 9,5x10^12 Km. That is a very long distance, and it must still be multiplied by 25 000, easiest done with (9,5x10^12)x25 000. (I just wrote this in case of idiots) Even at the speed of light, that would take 25 000 years, therefore making the mining impractical. See the problem?[/QUOTE] Didn't you buy warp drive upgrade 3?

Well, there goes all that matters :downsrim:

[QUOTE=BAZ;21819915]It's possible there's a whole universe made from anti-matter. There's also theories that the universe started as anti-matter and matter, but for some reason still unknown, matter came out ontop.[/QUOTE] anti-matter is highly unstable and can fall apart before it hits matter.

Strangely enough, it should have exploded from the sunlight that reached it. Since sunlight is also considered matter (albeit naked to the human eye) As for transporting matter, that would cost more than actually MINNING it. I mean, even if we get that magnetic field/gravitation theory, we would still need to make it so not even the smallest particle would be able to touch it (AKA neutrins, or whatever you english people call them (no not neutrons)) that can go 14 kilometers deep in to the earths crust. Why am i talking about this, what about actaully GETTING to that cloud?

[QUOTE=BAZ;21820645]It's not easy moving masses of the same magnitude as the cloud into it. Unless of course it's your mother.[/QUOTE] What if it is my mother?

We should genetically engineer a few soldiers to be superhuman, infact everyone on board, and train them all to be able to kill and destroy anything we encounter, just to be safe. And we should build a railgun, and then attach some engines to it, like the Pillar of Autumn

[QUOTE=Razor sharp;21820777]Strangely enough, it should have exploded from the sunlight that reached it. Since sunlight is also considered matter (albeit naked to the human eye) As for transporting matter, that would cost more than actually MINNING it. I mean, even if we get that magnetic field/gravitation theory, we would still need to make it so not even the smallest particle would be able to touch it (AKA neutrins, or whatever you english people call them (no not neutrons))[/QUOTE] Not to mention the problem of distance.

Wait, remind me, do photons have mass?

A bigass CLOUD of antimatter is really fucking cool.