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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>… Behalf Of </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>John Clark<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Power sats as weapons<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>> I don't think we need to watch power sats closely for one being turned into a laser weapon.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I agree, we already have an excellent method for instantly vaporizing cities and I don't see what additional advantage a laser would provide in accomplishing that task<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It wouldn’t be used for accomplishing that task. A laser wouldn’t need to nuke the whole city, but rather just punch holes in the engine compartments of the battle tanks, cook the missile batteries, slice wings off of fighter planes, that sort of thing. The war would be over, the people in that town would read about it the next day in the press. Then we get to retire those methods for vaporizing cities, as that system is expensive to maintain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>A disadvantage I can see is that a space based laser might not be effective in maintaining the old paradigm of mutual assured destruction. With Iran getting nukes soon, I don’t know how to map the future of that notion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>