<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">spike</b> <<a href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">spike66@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.extropy.org">bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] On Behalf Of Damien Broderick<br>> Subject: [extropy-chat] ray gun<br>><br><a href="http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/laser.htm">
http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/laser.htm</a><br><br><br>Some futurey person please comment on this. I can imagine<br>a future war being fought in one night, with few if any<br>actual human casualties, where the guys with the laser fly
<br>over and quietly knock out all the other guy's tanks, planes<br>and missiles.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
OTOH a good laser system would render air power obsolete.<br>
No more 'bloodless wars' for the US - back to bayonets in the trenches.<br>
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Dirk<br>