[extropy-chat] ray gun

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/2/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> > bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> > Subject: [extropy-chat] ray gun
> >
> http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/laser.htm
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> Some futurey person please comment on this.  I can imagine
> a future war being fought in one night, with few if any
> actual human casualties, where the guys with the laser fly
> over and quietly knock out all the other guy's tanks, planes
> and missiles.
>
>
OTOH a good laser system would render air power obsolete.
No more 'bloodless wars' for the US - back to bayonets in the trenches.

Dirk
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