From deletesoftware@yandex.ru Wed May 25 05:59:11 2005 Return-Path: Date: Wed May 25 05:59:11 2005 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> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:51:58 +0400 Organization: Delete Software Limited User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 213.180.200.14 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 From: "Aleksej R. Serdyukov" Subject: Re: railgun X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=209292576; y=rPA6kSjEwXrZiT6iPvQqLvdI2kdSIjTC9Pjd9TTLUOrxxtd8wq5_ODc X-Yahoo-Profile: deletesoftware X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 24416 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.