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Re the space gun idea, didn't that idea come up back in the 80s wrt beam weapons under Reagan's Star Wars program? A laser ionizes a path to the target, and th
by mcswell 6y ago
Re the space gun idea, didn't that idea come up back in the 80s wrt beam weapons under Reagan's Star Wars program? A laser ionizes a path to the target, and the particle weapon fires along that pre-ionized path.
- trhway 6y agoStar Wars had a lot of great tech ideas. Too bad the Cold War ended so soon - we'd have by now a nuclear propulsion, Moon and Mars bases and a lot of other great stuff ... as long as nobody pressed the button activating the pointy stuff :)