Re: Laser as reactionless propulsion

Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:38:01 -0700 (PDT)

From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@lorrey.com>

Ishmael Abd-er-Rahman wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 02:28:19 Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>>b) There is a new power source that one of the Russian Institutes
>>just sold to the US military which uses a small charge of
>>conventional explosives to generate 1 megawatt for a tiny
>>fraction of a second. They are evaluating it now for space
>>defense weapons use. Don't know the technology behind it.

>> Is it Cold Fusion?

>"cold fusion" has absolutely nothing to do with explosives.
>According to what I read the only thing this device consumes is
>chemical explosives.

Maybe it's cold-war fusion....

heh,heh.

Actually we have (supposedly) some EMP bombs in the inventory that use a similiar effect, there were diagrams in Winn Schwartau's book Information Warfare

Brian
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