h a l f b a k e r y"It would work, if you can find alternatives to each of the steps involved in this process."
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" One thing I've found out, over the years, is that, anytime you think that you were the originator of some new idea, ' I was the first to do that, ' you'll find some old fellow who did it around 1895. Every darn time. " Edward Hamilton, 1904 - 1977, in "The Space Opera Renaissance", TOR Books, 2006 |
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For even the simplest of directed-energy
weapons, the disconnect here between the
minimum energy required and the actual
power input available, even integrated over
days and ignoring storage losses, is N orders
of magnitude, where N is any arbitrarily
large positive integer greater than, say, 6. |
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A scifi writer who croaked in 1977 was still handing out
snappy
quotes eight years ago?! That's one helluva futurist... |
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Join the club....or morning star if you prefer. |
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Thank you for the invitation, I think I shall! Is my
immediate death compulsory or do we let Nature take her
course? |
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I envision a bulb-topped tower leaning out over the castle gate, connected by various gears to an ox-powered wheel on the interior. When the party with the battering ram comes running up electrical arcs jump down and zap them. |
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Although maybe I got that from Connecticut Yankee. Yes, yes I did. He did not do the smoke-based particle beam though which is also very intriguing. |
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