[117692] in Cypherpunks
Orbital Weapons Platform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Sep 9 00:04:08 1999
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 05:40:24 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199909090340.FAA07328@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
>In the 80's there was some sort of initative to create "Star Wars" an
>orbital defense initative to destroy potential nuclear warheads before
>they were launched or during launch in the upper atmosphere. Persuing a
>collection of old X-files episodes I found one dealing with the use of
>high intensity particle beams fired from said satellites. I think just
>from the power consumption needs this would fail due to limitations of
>solar power cells. Is there such a system in place? Is the current power
>technology sophisticated enough?
>
>---terminal
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