RE: WAR: Alternative strategies

From: matus (matus@matus1976.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 21:37:18 MDT

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    >
    > At 05:20 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Robert Bradbury pointed us to:
    > >Gamma-ray weapons could trigger next arms race
    > >David Hambling, 13 August 2003
    > >NewScientist.com
    > >http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99994049
    >
    > Oh my Gawd. (Mouth hangs open for impolitely long period.)
    >
    > Within five years thousands of dollars per kilogram makes
    > material can suddenly release 50Kg of TNT worth of energy. So
    > that's less than a dollar for bullet that releases a truck
    > bomb worth of energy on impact? It really is a new millennium.
    >

    It would also make a phenomenal propulsion system, at an energy storage
    denstiy near that of fission, it could propel humanity into space.

    Michael Dickey



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