Re: Gauss weapons

On  2-May-00 at 13:45, Alex Kettle (squawk@csolve.net) wrote:
> Hello all, I've been lurking here for a while, thought I'd jump in.
First
> off, my group plays SG, looking at DS (few run throughs) and are
trying to
> get FT from our store- as something different since B5 Wars is our
main
> game- I already have a small fleet of Sa'vas'ku (sp?) turned into
Shadow
> ships. Maybe the actual shadow cruiser minis (which are really nice
BTW)
> would make good Sa'vas'ku? :-)
> 
> Anyway,
> 
> Thomas Barclay wrote:
> >Oerjan suggests a ceramic coating for a gauss flechette. Seems like a
wise
> >idea - easier penetration through the atmosphere I'd imagine.
> >
> >How about some sort of "molecularly aligned" metal or something like
> >synthetic diamond (maybe a diamond tip)? I dunno, just crazy talk.
> 
> 
> We can put diamond films on objects now, it's a fairly simple process
that
> was developed by one of my professors at York University in Toronto (a
few
> years ago before I graduated). It involves a carbon coating, using
high
> pressures and a laser. The exact process of course I don't know, but I
do
> know that he apparently sold it to NASA. The plan I believe was to
develop
> the process further to create diamond films on satellites and other
space
> objects- the ultra hard coating to help protect from space dust etc.
So
> perhaps the flechette could be coated in a diamond film to help
increase
> strength and penetration?
> Just a thought,

Just saw a pointer on rec.photo newsgroups that they were starting
to coat lenses with a diamond coating, can't be that expensive.
(Although I do large format and $2K for a lense is not unusual).

Roger