David Fontaine wrote:
> 
> > yer right in theory, however if the object was spinning it would form the disk
> > due to some nice physics
> 
> Yep. I forgot about the "coliding particle spin factor". But sci-fi explosions
> should be spherical and they aren't! Hrmph!

Why ? Assuming an object at rest with a uniform shell, and a way to ignite
the exploives it contained in a uniform manner perhaps it might appear as
a spherical blast. Given that the container may have different thicknesses
and the explosives my ignite non-unifomrly, and the whole container may
not be at rest, then it is safe to assume that you will not get a spherical
detonation.

It's all in the engineering - as a previous employeer of mine was fond of
saying.

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