[117290] in Cypherpunks
RE: Orbital Weapons Platform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Mon Aug 30 22:59:18 1999
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:26:45 -0700
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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 6:22 PM -0700 1999-08-30, Petro wrote:
>>At 12:09 PM -0700 1999-08-30, J.A. Terranson wrote:
>>onboard computers--present in nearly all weapons, even ICBMs--with particle
>>beams having total beam fluences (particles per unit area, and hence a
>>measure of cumulative energy) several orders of magnitude less than what
>>Prof. Kosta Tsipis of MIT was vocally saying was the minimum overall beam
>>energy.
>>
>>Getting into this topic would require a lot more time than I have now, not
>>to mention motivation. Not to mention the problems when no blackboard or
>>the like is available.
>>
>>And most of you, though not necessarily any particular one of you, lack the
>>background to see a basic explanation. Too much background would have to be
>>provided.
>
> I don't see what's so tough to understand--at least at the
>"conceptual" level, you point your "particle beam" (basically
>targeted/directed Electromagnetic Radiation) at "Da Bomb", it causes
No, a particle beam weapon is NOT such an electromagnetic radiation weapon.
>at least one critical part of said urban renewal device not to
>function properly, and you have a InterContinental Ballistic Chunk Of
>Steel That Doesn't Go Boom. We (well most of us) understand HERF
>weapons, I'd imagine that your proposed or conceived device is
>somewhat similar. Yeah, the specifics and the math ma be beyond some
No, HERF has essentially nothing to do with either particle beam or laser
weapons.
>of us (me), but the basic theory gets us (me) all the information I
>need. I'm not going to go building one of the fuckers.
I didn't think so.
--Tim May
Don't tread on me.
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