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Re: Bridget
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Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:46:00 GMT
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Karim Nassar wrote in message ...
> 
> 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.


Well, the feasibility of each method may or may not be superior to the
other, but I think that my supercavitating-bullets idea was a whole lot
sexier. Lasers? Whoopee-doo ;-)

Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/



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  Re: Bridget
 
Bah. Bullets are so Last Century. ~M (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)

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  Re: Bridget
 
(...) 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. --Karim (26 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)

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