| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: thermographic vision-question |
| Date: | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:16:53 +0100 |
the street was...
> What about this situation: some guard hides behind a wall, as you hosed
> enough lead to his direction that he dived into cover. So he is, as I said
> before, behind a wall. Now, if he is in physical contact to him, eg not
> just standing there but leaning to that wall, would he reveal his position
> by changing its temperature? How long would this take?
Long enough to warm up the wall by something like 0.5 degrees (which,
IIRC, is about the sensitivity of modern military systems, and thus IMHO a
reasonable gauge for SR's tech). That would depend on the material the
wall is made of, as some materials heat up faster than others, and also
its thickness: to warm a 1 mm thick piece of plastic sheeting takes a lot
less energy than warming up a 10 cm thick concrete wall.
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