... And yet the control requirements for a lens are far short of what is required for portable plasma state fusion. So all I'm saying is that if you got to...
John, I wrote the book on orbital assaults in Ken Burnside's universe, with huge amounts of help from Mark Graves, Anthony Jackson, James Sterret and many...
My response to a heavy ground defense is a time on target Chicxulub times a few hundred. Hopefully they'll surrender while I still can divert the rocks. If...
My response to a heavy ground defense is a time on target Chicxulub times a few hundred. Hopefully they'll surrender while I still can divert the rocks. If...
... I doubt this non-uniform heating would have time to produce significant density variations on the nanosecond time scales of a pulse laser. By the time the...
... They are essentially nonexistent, which is my point. ... If depends on what timescale is relevant. For example, with a machinegun you typically need your...
I may not have been thinking far enough out of the box here. (Pun intended, see below.) My design has been for an all-plasma laser mounted in an open framework...
... times a few hundred. ... evacuees. ... it.) ... I suppose you were advocating turning Afghanistan into a below sea level depression of radioactive glass on...
C -- I appreciate you looking it over and offering advice. I'm really grateful to everyone on this forum for their thoughts, whether I agree or not. First,...
If you are talking surface-to-orbit missiles, sure; they might score some hits, and might not. And the launch may give away the position of the submarine. If...
... The big monkey wrench in this gear is clouds - powerful enough lasers can burn through clouds, and it is easier for a laser in orbit to burn through clouds...
... that can be finessed .. have the sub ejecting the whole launch tube - thus hovers slightly below the surface for a short time, giving the sub some time to...
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:26:07 +0100, Luke Campbell <lwcamp@...> wrote: [...] ... Good old fashioned cloud seeding should keep the clouds away from the ...
... Surface to orbit missiles can be fired from single-shot silos. Once it's fired, there's not much there worth killing any more. ... Actually, that's not...
... Eh. Assuming a wormhole does mass-balancing, all you're really doing is converting the mass of the wormhole into fuel, or possibly shoveling fuel into the...
... Which is to say, fairly ineffectual unless you have a quite good idea where the target actually is (human cross-section tends to run 0.2-0.6 square meters,...
... No, but said plasma has a very low energy density. If I was surrounded by a plasma emitting a gigawatt of energy, I'd be well done in no time flat....
... I agree that it doesn't. However, there's a logical progression you might want to make with military lasers that you don't try to make with industrial...
... This can plausibly be argued either way, so you're perfectly in your rights to assert sensor advantage in your setting. I think you have to iron out the...
... I am not a physicist, nor do I play one on TV. I did, however, work with PhD relativist who is now a naval analyst ("there are seven jobs in relativity --...
... Indeed, that's quite consistent with what I said. The chronology protection conjecture is just that -- a conjecture. It is not something predicted by...
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