From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 25 05:59:17 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 25 May 2005 05:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DavTL-0005W4-8Z for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 05:58:55 -0700 Received: from n2a.bulk.scd.yahoo.com ([66.94.237.36]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DavTE-0005Uf-Ml for lojban-in@lojban.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 05:58:54 -0700 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lima; d=yahoogroups.com; b=PS9Ajzj1m/lpw6hOUKe3AtTcND7NmAymTzy4uIPEHgrvnSu5eeaTzzR2+Z5SXJ25eS4kR9AkLEhMDNh1LgB4+EO6e5RdjQsX3uRDFOouAKmX6ykR7u47xzbGEJtaarOY; Received: from [66.218.69.3] by n2.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 May 2005 12:59:14 -0000 Received: from [66.218.66.31] by mailer3.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 May 2005 12:59:14 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-email X-Sender: deletesoftware@yandex.ru X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 68265 invoked from network); 25 May 2005 12:59:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m25.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 May 2005 12:59:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx14.yandex.ru) (213.180.200.14) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 May 2005 12:59:10 -0000 Received: from h115.keldysh.ru ([194.226.57.115]:48908 "EHLO [194.226.57.115]" smtp-auth: "deletesoftware" TLS-CIPHER: "RC4-MD5 keybits 128/128 version TLSv1/SSLv3" TLS-PEER-CN1: ) by mail.yandex.ru with ESMTP id S1785572AbVEYM62 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2005 16:58:28 +0400 X-Comment: RFC 2476 MSA function at mx14.yandex.ru logged sender identity as: deletesoftware Message-ID: <429369BE.8010105@yandex.ru> Organization: Delete Software Limited User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Robin Lee Powell References: <4290E499.5040504@yandex.ru> <20050523191355.GQ2534@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <4293094A.5070907@yandex.ru> <20050524150634.GH2534@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20050524150634.GH2534@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-Originating-IP: 213.180.200.14 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 From: "Aleksej R. Serdyukov" X-Yahoo-Profile: deletesoftware MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:51:58 +0400 Subject: [lojban] Re: railgun Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) X-archive-position: 10044 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: deletesoftware@yandex.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell wrote: >>>Using a similar construct for railgun gives makyjimcelxa'i, with >>>a place structure something like: >>I think, {makce'a} is enough... >>For railgun/coilgun used as weapon, it would be {makcelxa'i}. > > Ah, good point; forgot you might want a non-weapon version. Well, ... as J.E.C. said, as of now, every railgun is supposed to destroy something... > I like having the material of the slugs specified, but I suppose > it's hard to magnetically launch non-metal things. Yep... It may make sense, though, for a plasma railgun (see http://www.powerlabs.org/), which has more power and uses special projectile materials and forms. >>Is there a word for coil or gauss? > > Not for the Gauss; you'd have to come up with a Lujvo for kg * s^-2 > * A^-1. :-) .u'i > For "coil" there is clupe, djine and sarlu, depending on what you > mean, exactly. The coil is made of a wire around the barrel. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/TzSHvD/SOnJAA/79vVAA/GSaulB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lojban/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: lojban-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/