Potassium for a nuke ?

[webxro]

ok i was seeing some episodes from season 1 and it comes to my mind that naquada + potassium make a huge boom , and let me quote a episode

CARTER: I'm about to do an experiment to find out. One side of the object is made up of iron and potassium. The other is made up of the element that makes up the Stargate. [...]

CARTER: Now potassium can be one of the most volatile alkali metals on earth. Combined with even a small concentration of naquada and...
[...]
CARTER: The room your looking at is in the sub-basement floor of this complex. (Well look into the computer screen and see a table with two robot arms going towards each other.) It's led sealed. Let's see what happens when we put the two objects together.

JACKSON: Where are the samples?

CARTER: I'm only using a microscopic particle of each. (The two arms go together and a bright flash of light, a boom and the camera is dead. We can only see snow as a picture.)

FRAISER: The readings off the scale, Gamma and particle radiation.

JACKSON: Are we safe?

CARTER: Yeah. But we have a big problem.

JACKSON: Well if two microscopic particle could cause that...

CARTER: Then the object inside Cassandra could cause a nuclear reaction a million times bigger.

so if something that small can cause that big blast , why don't they use it on warheads ?
or do they have a bigger method to go KABOOM

[SaberBlade]

Well it's hard for them to make a weapon as small as Cassandra's chest bomb without knowing how to make one. It's not just an issue of sticking the components together, but making the device. Cassandra's was probably nanotech based since it grew from nothing and could kill her if removed.

Besides, nuke + naquadah = planetary fireball. In s9 of SG1, one was used by a Prior to help make a black hole. Can't beat that.

[lordofseas]

Sometimes smaller is better. If they really wanted a smaller blast, they could use a potassium/naquadah bomb. Though I'd like to see a francium/naquadah or a cesium/naquadah bomb.

[escyos]

id wager that the volatile nature of the two materials means that you cant really control it, once its ready to blow thats it. while an overload caused in a reaction can be controlled a lot easier.

[lordofseas]

id wager that the volatile nature of the two materials means that you cant really control it, once its ready to blow thats it. while an overload caused in a reaction can be controlled a lot easier.

Oh I agree. I'm just saying that if it's a choice between a Mark IX and a Potassium/Naquadah bomb, and you want a smaller yield explosion, go with the K/Naq bomb.

[webxro]

well i was thinking that a mark IX would be totally left behind by it's equivalent in size made of naquadria/cesium

[lordofseas]

well i was thinking that a mark IX would be totally left behind by it's equivalent in size made of naquadria/cesium

It's really all up to the writers. No doubt they forgot all about that little tidbit.

[webxro]

Yeap and some tiny bits also why don't goa'ulds use nukes ?

[lordofseas]

Because they want to rule worlds, not obliterate them. If they have an enemy, most likely that enemy would be behind energy shields which the nuke would annoy them as much as the enemy due to the interfering radiation.

[colbmista]

they rely on advance plasma weapons

[webxro]

well on orbital bombardment , that would be very good , also gate nuking would be even better

[escyos]

well i was thinking that a mark IX would be totally left behind by it's equivalent in size made of naquadria/cesium

i think the reaction of naquadah and potassium has to do with potassiums natural reaction to oxygen, and the magnification with the naquadah, essentially what your doing is making fire, while a nuclear reaction is a lot more powerful. imagine it like mixing fire with petrol, yes it burns better but what happens when you throw in some napalm and watch it go release more energy.

ii think a naquadah bomb is more about destruction than explosions.

[webxro]

well i think you don't need a oxygen in Cassandra's blood well except that inside the hemoglobin but still , think about cesium + water , i think that it's the reaction of naq whit of a reactive metal , and making napalm it's not that hard

[escyos]

well i think you don't need a oxygen in Cassandra's blood well except that inside the hemoglobin but still , think about cesium + water , i think that it's the reaction of naq whit of a reactive metal , and making napalm it's not that hard

that was an analogy. and no i dont think anyone else thinks that a cesium/naq mix could make a bigger explosion that a naq bomb.

[webxro]

cesium is much more reactive , it goes boom whit water , imagine that whit naq or naquadria