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[quote]Just want to point out that I disproved the 27 gigatons in reply 62. Halopedia did the calculation with 30 megatons per warhead in the NOVA. As I pointed out[/quote] "So the rough estimation for the NOVA Bomb may be around that of a twenty-seven gigaton yield blast(if the multiplier was exactly one hundred-fold the equation is: 9 warheads x 30 megaton x 100 = 27 gigaton yield)." --halopedia article. If Halopedia is incorrect, it's not valid as a source for anything is it?

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[quote]All that agree with this say I, all oposed say nah. I.[/quote] Hey, I didn't write Voyager's episodes, but the writers decided that yep, Photon Torpedoes have incredibly high yields as such. Look it up on memory alpha and do the math yourself, yes, they have that much energy. [quote]That would be the joint Romulan-Cardassianfleet that bombed the Founder homeworld but were feed back false info on the damage by a transponder. Thats what it said at Mem

[quote]And your also forgetting again that the Covenant have the Energy Projector and Pulse Laser, not just the Plasma Torpedoes. 36 Covenant ships fired (if he is right, I haven’t had the time to check) about 872.5 Petatons in only one hour plus what it takes to glass the land and seabed after seas are gone.[/quote] We're not forgetting anything. I think you have failed to read everything we have offered about the power of Star Trek weapons. Again, on-screen

[quote]Trek ships are no faster, a UNSC frigate could do eighty-million KPH, but that may be a bit to fast, and Covenant ships are about tiwce as fast. The only Halo weapon would be the planet Onyx, built by the Forerunner to guard the Slipspace rift. It is made up of trillions of the very powerful but small Onyx Sentinel, the combined fire of only a few thousand could destroy even large Covenant ships like Destroyers, when the crust was destroyed by the under laying Sentinels it vaporiz

Had the post, sourced from several episodes, on photon torpedoes. As can be seen, it's utterly ridiculous. [quote]One photon torpedo with a yield of 25 isotons destroys a small city, and a yield of 54 isotons destroys a small planet, suggesting that mass measurements in Star Trek are mysteriously exponential. If by "small planet", they mean something like the moon, the lower limit of the energy required to destroy the moon is 1.234 * 10^29 J, or about 30 trillion m

[quote]The science is explained well enough in both. There is no need to overthink it, since it's fiction. We're just having a Star Wars vs Star Trek debate. I don't think we need you to tell us it can't happen in real life.[/quote] Then you really did miss the point--that since [i]anything[/i] can happen in fiction--and everything does, for the sake of a plot point, it's inevitable that every soft sci fi will have something hilariously powerful as a plot point, and that it is always

[quote]Yeah.....that's why it's called science fiction . Ever wonder where the name comes from?[/quote] I'm sorry, I just presumed that half of [b]science[/b] fiction was [b]science[/b]. Ever guessed where the name [b]science[/b] fiction comes from? I'm perfectly capable of needlessly being a snarky asshole, too.

Sci Fi debates like this are relatively pointless, given most technologies in Halo and Star Trek will never come to be, and all science fiction series, films and games have contrived weaponry that's ridiculously overpowered for the sake of hurrying up a plot in a 30 minutes episode/game mission. Hence why I brought up the photon torpedo--as you can see, it's simply impossibly powerful. An explosion that size would take an incredible amount of antimatter--and enough matter to react with it. It

One photon torpedo with a yield of 25 isotons destroys a small city, and a yield of 54 isotons destroys a small planet, suggesting that mass measurements in Star Trek are mysteriously exponential. If by "small planet", they mean something like the moon, the lower limit of the energy required to destroy the moon is 1.234 * 10^29 J, or about 30 trillion megatons of explosive force. So a single photon torpedo in Star Trek carries 30 trillion megatons of explosive force--and that's not even