Tim Atkinson wrote:
> Indestructable Gun Barrels?
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> Also not strictly within in the scope of this question but I wonder what
> would happen if you set off a nuke inside a GP Hull?

"The strengthened molecular bonds are proof against any kind of impact,
and heat into the hundreds of thousands of degrees." ("Flatlander",
/Neutron Star/ p. 170).

Scrith has the tensile strength of intra-atomic bonds, and GP hull
material is apparently even stronger-- or at least harder, as when the
shadow square wire was used to tow the /Liar/ it didn't abrade the hull.

However, it seems unlikely that whatever covers or fills the various
holes in a GP hull (airlock, etc) would be able to contain the
explosion. And can't fusion points reach millions of degrees? A nuke
may well exceed a GP hull's temperature limit.

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