Martin Brown said:
It wouldn't do quite that much damage if you converted one human to pure
energy. E=mc^2 gives about 21kT TNT per gram of matter annihilated or 21MT
per kg. So a 95kg human would be in the ball park of 2GT TNT
Biggest ever Russian H-bomb design was 100MT (50MT as detonated).
Krakatoa 1884 is estimated at 200MT (an order of magnitude less)
Tambora in 1815 (year without summer 1816) was ~1GT
You really would not want to be stood at ground zero. Crater size would be
roughly 6-8km scaling as M^0.3 or so for a ground burst. see:
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD601139&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
(amazingly the graph in fig 12 goes all the way up to 1000MT!)
Vulcanism would almost certainly add to your woes.
So what you are saying is:
1. That Startrek is very inaccurate.
2. That blasting a person without further precautions with a phaser would
blow a crate the size of 6 to 8 KM's cool ! =D
I expect the next Startrek movie to include such destruction ! =D
3. That a phaser would first need to deploy a shield around the target to
prevent such a blast.
I expect this special effect to be present in the next Startrek Movie...
maybe it's kinda already preset because of the little "tingles" that are
visible... but the effect could be enhanced to include a little visible
shield around the target... maybe a round shield or maybe a body like shield
which wraps around the body and encapsulates the explosion/energy. Maybe the
effect could show a violent bloody/explosive/plasma energy explosion inside
it... it would all happen very fast... if you blink you'll miss it... but
maybe the subconcencious mind would still see it a little bit =D
4. I expect the shield to fail in the next Startrek movie because the phaser
was damaged/malfunctioning but the actor/character had no choice... he was
imminent/certain death but at least saved the day by taking down the
bitches/enemy with him !
=D Or maybe he miracously survives by a
protective shield... unless that was damaged too... it depends all on the
storyline
Or maybe he is catapulted somehow into the air/space... or
maybe he takes off with a jetpack or anti gravity device... or lame as it
may be... is "teleported" just intime before the destruction takes place...
in a true Startrek way... I think it would be kinda cool though... a
teleport-drive-by-massive-destruction-shooting =D Added bonus: extra special
effect possibility for teleport scequence...
However maybe the massive explosion/energy with interfere with the
teleportation... and blow away his molecules that were drifting in space...
and the teleport machine was unable to make a successfull copy... cause
that's what teleporting is... making a copy... making he would end up being
gruesomely cut in half... but Startrek usually doesn't have bloody scenes
like that...
5. After which there is a massive vulcano shooting plasma into the sky...
possibly damaging anything floating above it... perhaps another alien vessle
being hit by a massive plasma strike ?!
The ship might survive but it
might loose it's anti gravity features and be sucked into the planet... or
maybe it would start heating up and be stuck in the plasma... however the
captain of the ship realizes the dangers and says to get the hell out of
there.. and woesh... the alien ship flies through the plasma giving another
nice special effects possibility: dripping lava of the space ship... and a
heating up/glowing spaceship from the plasma... possibly with "northern
lights like magnetic effects in the sky because of photons being bent from
the sun or multiple suns for that matter
" It could also be at night or
half at night/sunset... brightening up the surrounds a little bit and maybe
casting shadows... Plus flying earth across the scene from the vulcanic
explosion.
The alien ship could crash land into a mountain... like a million years
ago... and now we human beings discover it ! =D Sounds like transformers to
me !
=D
That could actually be a nice opening or ending sequences for Transformers 3
! or maybe Transformers 4 !
After the war for cybertron... the transformers/autbots flee from
cybertron... after being hit by megatron's spaceship.. the transformers get
a drift or warpspeed bump into a different trajectory straight into earth's
path... after miraclously stablizing their systems and preventing a warp
space collision with earth... they are drifting/floating above earth...
Optimus Prime goes to Jurrasic Park-like-planet to have a looksy... with
some of crew... battling and destroying some Evil Dino's which attack
Optimus Prime...
Optimus Prime is like... no fucking way you son-of-a-bitch T-REX ! I just
had a god damn fucking LOSS at CYBER-FUCKING-TRON... no way I am going to
loose from a bunch of FLESH-RIDDEN-FUCKING-PRE-HISTORIC-CREATURES ! Blast
BLAST BLAST... he blasts the fucking T-REXES with his awesome phasers ! =D
But Optimus Prime forgets the rule of combat: ALWAYS LOOK UP.... such a
foool (or he was busy ok !
) ! =D and WOOSH... a prehistoric SWOOP/flying
dino flies towards Optimus Prime !!!! And damages his Phaser ! **** ****
**** !! Optimus Prime is getting PISSED OFF !
Nothing is going the way it should be going ! I can't even get rid/defeat
these fucking Dino's ! =D
Then megatron arrives with his spaceship ! Ready to have a piece of Optimus
ASS ! No way is megatron going to let Optimus Prime off the hook by blasting
him with his spaceships weaponry like StarScream suggests ! Such is the way
of a coward Megatron says to StarScream ! Megatron makes his way to the
surface of the planet... either by teleportation... (transformers do have
teleportation technology, like the gateway to cybertron) or simply by
floating/jumping down from his spaceship...
There he confronts Optimus Prime ! StarScream smells his chance for betrayel
of Megatron and Optimus Prime and to get rid of them both with one blow !
StarScream tries to take over control of megatron's spaceship.. and fights
off some of the other decepticons... the decepticons do not want to risk
their spaceship any further and concede to star scream after some
struggle... StarScream now at the controls of the spaceship decides to first
blast away the AutoBots spaceship which was already damage during the space
battle... and is defenseless... PZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTT many good autobots die in
the attack ! And the spaceship is blooowwnnn to bits !
Megatron sees the treachery of StarScrem... he did not order this... he did
not command this... what is this shit ?! Megatron understands the danger...
StarScream must be doing this... Only StarStream is a big of an enough
asshole to do this !
Megatron immediatly transports back to his spaceship... To kick StarsScream
ass !
But right before megatron teleports away from the planet... Optimus Prime
decides that this planet is worth saving ! In the glimpse of an eye Optimus
Prime sees/senses the presence of valuable life "pre-historic humans" "A
beautifull pre-historic blond is visible together with a man" who were
watching the battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron...
Optimus Prime's eyes/optical sensors and his automatic recgonization systems
for valuable life detection analyze the human beings visual appereance in
the blink of an eye... and a warning message is displayed: "PROTECT ALL
VALUABLE LIFEFORMS"... such is the way of the AutoBots... this is hardcoded
in the brain of Optimus Primus...
Optimus Prime has no choice but to the follow the Autobot's Prime Directive
of: "PROTECTING ALL SENTIENT BEINGS".
Therefore in time of mere milliseconds Automus Prime comes to the conclusion
that this planet must not fall in the evil hands of MEGATRON !
This planet must not be destroyed or harvest for energy by MEGATRON !
Such a faith would be worse than DEATH for the sentient lifeforms (know as
humans).
Therefore Optimus Prime comes to the conclusion that HE must SACRIFICE his
OWN LIFE and the LIFE of those who are unlooking to protect the greater good
and to prevent further harm from taking PLACE.
Optimus Prime knows very well what happens to defective phasers and
planets... and about the vulcano to erupt...
So Optimus Prime uses his defective phasers to BLAST a gigant ball of
phasers plasma into the earth even at megatron's location....
BOOOOOOOM A gigant blast occurs... the vulcano spoofs plasma over megatron's
spaceship... and the spaceship crashlands with violent force into the
mountain...
This was the stupidity of starscream he tried to excallerate out of it at
maximum speed... it could also have been the result of a strunggle on board
of the spaceship
trying to get out of the plasma but miserably failing because of bad
settings/buttons being wrongly hit.
The force of the impact is so great that all transformers onboard the
spaceship are destroyed... so is Optimus Prime but his construction plans
are inside the spaceship's computer... these construction plans were already
in Megatron's possesions to analyze Optimus's Prime's weaknesses.
However... Megatron is Optimus Brother... and Megatron will not let his
brother fall like that... Only by his hands will Optimus Prime be truely
destroyed...
Optimus Prime had a cruesome death... the power/energy blast of his plasma
bullit completely damaged his circuits and partially vaporized him !
However Optimus Prime was partially constructed of such strong metals that
his dead corpse remains partially present... His sparc is gone for the time
being... he dies...
Megatron's Story continues: Therefore out of an act of self statisfaction...
Megatron teleports Optimus Prime's dead body aboard his spaceship...
Megatron knows that his spaceship has a re-construction ability...
Megatron's last words before ultimate temporarely (billions of years)
destruction are:
"NO WAY WILL I LET YOU ESCAPE FROM MY BARE HANDS LIKE THAT OPTIMUS PRIME !"
SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH...
Optimus Prime's dead body is teleported aboard the spaceship right before
inpact by Megatron pressing the teleport button. (Quickly programming the
computer via his computer brain/laser inputs/ouputs toward's the spaceships
controls/computers interface <- another nice little special effects
possibility).
And boooommmmmmrrrrrrrr rocks fly out of the mountain as the spaceship
penetrates the mountain !
It turns out (to be more consistent with the cartoons)... That Megatron's
spaceship was actually the Autobots spaceship.... containing teletron one
and the reconstruction capability...
During the spacebattle... there was a swap of spaceships... this is the
teleportation decision does must be made during spacehip-to-spaceship-space
battles.
Do we stay aboard to defend the ship ? Or do we attack to conquer to other
ship ?!
Being brothers they both come to the same conclusion: "Attack is the best
defense".
Therefore the autobots that stayed behind to defend got defeated by
Megatron's attack force...and vice versa... Alternatively the autobots
defended and quickly escaped to megatron's spaceship and destroyed the
teleporters or raised an impenetrable teleportation shield... from some
special autobot...
This little extra could be added to the story line...
Otherwise the movie will deviate slightly from the cartoon's series which is
just fine with me as well...
Bye,
Skybuck ! =D