They should fill the rail gun shells with acid when fighting the wraith

[Puddle-Jumper]

Well they should if they filled the shells with some kind of really strong acid then they might cause it to seep through the hull or some wires or some thing

So any thoughts??

[ussrelativity]

With acidic weaponry, it may be possible to damage the Wraith enough to the point where they can't regenerate the sheer damage. I do believe that the weapons bust be fired at close range, though.

[IcyNeko]

.... *sigh* You kids...

Acid doesn't work on all things. It's also easy to neutralize (especially in organic surfaces). So this method FAILS.

Most rounds are depleted uranium, which means it's radioactive. Radiation affects things much more profoundly than your "acid". It will radiate things through the hull. It does an area effect. Depleted uranium also punches through more armor than an acid round, and is much more stable. Acid rounds are prone to explosion before deployment.

[Chutzpah]

Now, I know very little in the field of Space weaponry and fighting, but wouldn't acid be pretty ineffective in space? I would imagine it would freeze as soon as it was exposed to space.

I said 'space' too often.

[The Prophet]

Well, seeing as physical weaponary seems to have very little, if no, effect upon the Wraith, I'd go for Bio-chemicalwarfare... Humane, No, Effective, Yes.

They had it going with the Retrovirus until they were betrayed... They should continue with the project... Maybe some kind of Disease/chemical targeted at The Living Wraith Ships, they could be suseptibal to Bio-Chem attack...

[Exiled Master]

Well they should if they filled the shells with some kind of really strong acid then they might cause it to seep through the hull or some wires or some thing

So any thoughts??

If you fought at sea or in some other wet enviroment, then acids and bases would be quite effective. That's because acids and bases break up water molecules.
If you were to use chemicals on the Wraith themselves, I suggest using a base, not an acid. A human will immediately notice if a powerful acid comes in contact with skin. This is not the case with bases. Bases do not trigger a pain response like acids. So it could be several minutes before you notice the burns created on your skin, or you feel the pain of the base reaching a nerve bundle. So unless the iratus bug reacts to bases, using the liquids would be an interesting weapons possiblity.
Acids and bases would be useful on a boarding craft, as any radiation short of an energy weapon in intensity (amplitude) would not be fast enough. I wonder how ionizing radiation would affect acids and bases in dissolving the target?

[Pharaoh Atem]

Well they should if they filled the shells with some kind of really strong acid then they might cause it to seep through the hull or some wires or some thing

So any thoughts??

salt water bullets

[ddovala]

If you fought at sea or in some other wet enviroment, then acids and bases would be quite effective. That's because acids and bases break up water molecules.
If you were to use chemicals on the Wraith themselves, I suggest using a base, not an acid. A human will immediately notice if a powerful acid comes in contact with skin. This is not the case with bases. Bases do not trigger a pain response like acids. So it could be several minutes before you notice the burns created on your skin, or you feel the pain of the base reaching a nerve bundle. So unless the iratus bug reacts to bases, using the liquids would be an interesting weapons possiblity.
Acids and bases would be useful on a boarding craft, as any radiation short of an energy weapon in intensity (amplitude) would not be fast enough. I wonder how ionizing radiation would affect acids and bases in dissolving the target?

Acids and bases in a sea would be useless! They would dilute to minute concentrations.

And bases melt your skin off -- which definately initiates a pain reaction. Ever spill 12M NaOH on your hand?

[Exiled Master]

Acids and bases in a sea would be useless! They would dilute to minute concentrations.

And bases melt your skin off -- which definately initiates a pain reaction. Ever spill 12M NaOH on your hand?

I didn't say it doesn't incite a reaction, it just takes longer, a pants-on-fire sort of thing. As for the wet enviroments: I went to the extreme for conditions to cause a reaction. Humidity would do nicely. But I can think of an application for bases in ocean warfare. Mines that convert saltwater into NaOH. Dissolved Na in the salt is separted from the water and combined with OH made with a water decomposing enzyme. Oh, and does ethanol react explosively with chlorine like it does with gasoline?

[Puddle-Jumper]

.... *sigh* You kids...

Acid doesn't work on all things. It's also easy to neutralize (especially in organic surfaces). So this method FAILS.

Most rounds are depleted uranium, which means it's radioactive. Radiation affects things much more profoundly than your "acid". It will radiate things through the hull. It does an area effect. Depleted uranium also punches through more armor than an acid round, and is much more stable. Acid rounds are prone to explosion before deployment.

.......*Sigh* you Senior Citizens.........

Sure acid is easy to nutralise but who says that the wraith have advanced chemical labs on board their hives equipped with the large amounts of chemicals needed and even if they did how would they get them in to areas which will be no doubt decompressed due to a big hole in the hull caused by acid???

At the very least acid could be placed on the hull and it could slowly burn away and perphaps cause a hull breach whilst in hyperdrive or something like that

But space being so cold might be a problem....But since the hives are organic they might be warm to the touch

By acid I just mean a corrosive substance which can be acid or base!

[Prior_of_the_Ori]

Who is to say that the Wraiths dont have chemical labs? Who is to say that the organic hulls were created to counter such tactics? I mean it is organic technology that must survive stellar radiation, the vacuum of space and the burning heat if they reenter an atmosphere so its entirely possible that ships are capable of surviving such a thing with no diminishment in performance.

[Puddle-Jumper]

Who is to say that the Wraiths dont have chemical labs? Who is to say that the organic hulls were created to counter such tactics? I mean it is organic technology that must survive stellar radiation, the vacuum of space and the burning heat if they reenter an atmosphere so its entirely possible that ships are capable of surviving such a thing with no diminishment in performance.

Thats a goods point!!

[Syera]

Myself, I'd consider looking into a variation of the bacteria that causes strep throat and see if that could be made to take down Wraith ships - certainly not as something that'd take the ship down right away, but something that would give it a nasty, debilitating staph infection.

[freyr's mother]

How about replicator spray. That stuff can eat through anything. Just ask the asgard for the chemical formula of the spray and then have them show us how to synthesize it and store it.

[kefke20]

But I can think of an application for bases in ocean warfare. Mines that convert saltwater into NaOH. Dissolved Na in the salt is separted from the water and combined with OH made with a water decomposing enzyme. Oh, and does ethanol react explosively with chlorine like it does with gasoline?

it is not posebel NaCl will split in 2 ions Na+ and Cl- if the Na+ react wit the water (H2O =balanst= H3O+ + OH-) to NaOH
1. you can never get a cons to do enythine the osians are to vast
2. watte hell dos NaOH do whit steel!!!!!!!!!!!!! to react iron you need a acid not a loog.

and no ethanol react explosisvely ore im very lucky that im still alive

[kefke20]

Myself, I'd consider looking into a variation of the bacteria that causes strep throat and see if that could be made to take down Wraith ships - certainly not as something that'd take the ship down right away, but something that would give it a nasty, debilitating staph infection.

a bact do not do enything in space to cold for het enzyms to work there
if you can infect the hull hit a m.o you need to waith till it gos in a amosfeer
whit a nice temp. i think the ship will have a imunsystem to combat that.

[The Ori]

.... *sigh* You kids...

Acid doesn't work on all things. It's also easy to neutralize (especially in organic surfaces). So this method FAILS.

Most rounds are depleted uranium, which means it's radioactive. Radiation affects things much more profoundly than your "acid". It will radiate things through the hull. It does an area effect. Depleted uranium also punches through more armor than an acid round, and is much more stable. Acid rounds are prone to explosion before deployment.

True, but radiation could make the wraith even more powerful if.. TPTB... say ...so..

[The Prophet]

True, but radiation could make the wraith even more powerful if.. TPTB... say ...so..

SpiderWraith,
SpiderWraith,
Radioactive SpiderWraith,
Looks Like A Spider,
Actually a Wraith,
Radioactive SpiderWraith...
*Electric Guitar Solo*...

[kefke20]

True, but radiation could make the wraith even more powerful if.. TPTB... say ...so..

lol

but the radiation will mutat the wraith DNA
so the proteen sythese will be efectet (whit hummans the end resolt cancer is)
but wat the hailing power of the wraith will do is onknow.

[carcatcher]

I don't think that a shell built to carry a liquid could withstand the extreme acceleration of being launched from a gun, and if it could it might be able to survive the impact as well, making it useless.

Just my opinion.