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Re: Bridget
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lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space
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Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:26:23 GMT
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wubwub@wildlink.[SayNoToSpam]com
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"Karim Nassar" <knassar@etymon.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Paul Baulch writes:
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> > Anyway, I think laser beams would attenuate pretty quickly in a
> > not-very-transparent medium like seawater. A supercavitating bullet
> > travelling at Mach 3? No problem ;-)
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> Seawater is moreor-less transparent to a properly tuned blue/green lasers, so
> there would be little/no attenuation. No moving parts to corrode in the
> saltwater, and no ejection ports to get gummed up by oceanic detritus.
...Seawater may be transparent to it, but seems to me all the stuffe floating in the water
from plankton to detritus would cause a problem. the dispersion from all the detritus
would prolly use up a great deal of the energy put into the laser just to plow thru it
all.
--
...you can go back to ignoring me now...
wubwub
stephen f roberts
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