From: avatar (avatar@renegadeclothing.com.au)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 19:20:27 MST
Extropians log supplemental:
I guess if someone approached with a really really really thick shield it would be a good idea to have a couple of rings of tactical nuclear devices surrounding the perimeter of the mountain to blow away the shield and expose them to the beam.
[Also, less realistically, one can envisage space opera battleships bristling with beam weapons and antimatter bombs surrounded by "shield ships" who manoeuvre and change to allow for "vulnerability gaps" to arise for beam weapons, kinda like the "battleships" board game.]
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The suit ideas sounds like fun, Starship Troopers with MEMS backpacks will be next doubtless. Toys for the boys.
Placed against a computer-controlled beam weapon with a nice heavy power source and...
such a mountain/tower based beam weapon will fry everything from a satellite (without space tower or moon-linear-accelerator support) to a robotic plane to a supertank to a suited soldier. Humans and planes move like flies in glue.
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