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Re: Bridget
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lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space
Date: 
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 (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)

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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. --Karim (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)

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