yessss!!!!

that would be so awesome

in real life objects dont clip through eachother.

well real jumpdrives also dont't work like that because they don't exist

point taken XD

Nuclear reactor wouldn't make that big a boom, at best it would blow out that part of the ship and throw your ships balance off.

This would be more in-line with less stable reactor types like antimatter, hypermatter, maybe fusion(???), etc...

reactors that produce more 'pure' forms of energy than heat and radiation made by fission

more forms of energy wouldnt be bad either. all with there own advantages and disadvantages.

i think the reacter used in SE is a fusion reactor. aka the ones that tend to esplode in sci-fi

fusion is not a chain reaction, therefore it cannot explode in an uncontrolled manner, it will just dump plasma out of the hole. Fission relies on this chain reaction, causing a massive explosion/meltdown. SE uses a fission reactor as it uses uranium. Fusion is hydrogen mainly and can work with all elements up to iron on the periodic table

Well I mean superheated plasma isn't exactly a good thing to have around...

If you found a way to get a fusion rector to explode, then you'd be dealing with some form of voodoo, fusion reactions dont work like that. they have to be forced to happen, and cant force eachother to happen. As to fission reactor not exploding... yes, they can explode. Violently. Destructively. Not as big as nukes or anything, as nukes use highly purified uranium/plutonium, where as reactor use rather low concetrations of fissionable uranium. Fission reactors may seem to only melt down because melting point is usually reached before exploding, and molten uranium doesnt tend to explode to well. As in antimatter, hyppermater and all those fun sci-fi reactors, seeing as we dont even neccesarily know these things to begin with one can only assume that they would even make power to that we can use, as to explosions caused by these things, who knows. Anyway, just figured i'd point these things out as to avoid further confusion. Sorry for the long comment...

i wish the exploding power was at least 5 times stronger

Originally posted by dRuPpI:

well real jumpdrives also dont't work like that because they don't exist

yet, so that point is dumb

Originally posted by ScoutingJ:

i think the reacter used in SE is a fusion reactor. aka the ones that tend to esplode in sci-fi

Fusion reactors don't use uranium. This is the Grayson LAC reactor. Now waiting to see if anyone knows what I'm talking about.

i wish the exploding power was at least 50 times stronger