Why Ion cannons in Star Wars and Stargate recoil?

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:09 am

ILikeDeathNote wrote:Yeah I would say that the Stargate Ion Cannon is just a big-ass particle cannon of some type, that probably spews a bunch of ions.

That's probably why they call it an Ion Cannon ;)

I guess the ions in that one are really big as well. :D

ILikeDeathNote · Post by **ILikeDeathNote** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:06 am

No, just a really big crapload of them :)

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:06 pm

ILikeDeathNote wrote:No, just a really big crapload of them :)

I guess you've never seen fist sized ions.

PunkMaister · Post by **PunkMaister** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:15 pm

Mr. Oragahn wrote:
ILikeDeathNote wrote:No, just a really big crapload of them :)
I guess you've never seen fist sized ions.

Umm... Have you? Where?

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:17 pm

PunkMaister wrote:
Mr. Oragahn wrote:
ILikeDeathNote wrote:No, just a really big crapload of them :)
I guess you've never seen fist sized ions.
Umm... Have you? Where?

In a good number of places, but you need special glasses to see them. Sometimes, an ion can be as big as a basket ball, and is called an ion ball, or an ion cannon ball. Such ions are very dangerous but occur rarely.
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PunkMaister · Post by **PunkMaister** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:16 pm

Mr. Oragahn wrote:
PunkMaister wrote:
Mr. Oragahn wrote: I guess you've never seen fist sized ions.
Umm... Have you? Where?
In a good number of places, but you need special glasses to see them. Sometimes, an ion can be as big as a basket ball, and is called an ion ball, or an ion cannon ball. Such ions are very dangerous but occur rarely.
_\.|./_

Ah common Mr O you are making that up! If not please do provide at least a link or 2?

ILikeDeathNote · Post by **ILikeDeathNote** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:42 pm

Mr. Oragahn wrote:
PunkMaister wrote:
Mr. Oragahn wrote: I guess you've never seen fist sized ions.
Umm... Have you? Where?
In a good number of places, but you need special glasses to see them. Sometimes, an ion can be as big as a basket ball, and is called an ion ball, or an ion cannon ball. Such ions are very dangerous but occur rarely.
_\.|./_

I was under the impression that an "ion" was just an atom that was stripped of its outer shell electrons or "valence" electrons, and thus either it would be a really big-ass atom or a whole buttload of atoms :)

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:05 pm

ILikeDeathNote wrote:
Mr. Oragahn wrote:
PunkMaister wrote: Umm... Have you? Where?
In a good number of places, but you need special glasses to see them. Sometimes, an ion can be as big as a basket ball, and is called an ion ball, or an ion cannon ball. Such ions are very dangerous but occur rarely.
_\.|./_
I was under the impression that an "ion" was just an atom that was stripped of its outer shell electrons or "valence" electrons, and thus either it would be a really big-ass atom or a whole buttload of atoms :)

These big ass atoms look like Skittles. This is the exceptionally huge ions. They're so heavy that even if I were to throw one, I'd recoil. Of course I can't, because they are ions after all.

ILikeDeathNote · Post by **ILikeDeathNote** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:43 pm

So we can conclude that...Mr. Oragahn is on acid? :p

PunkMaister · Post by **PunkMaister** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:26 pm

ILikeDeathNote wrote:So we can conclude that...Mr. Oragahn is on acid? :p

Either that or tons of Ecstassy....