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On Fri, 7/17/15, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Better situational awareness
 To: "tml" <tml@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, July 17, 2015, 11:20 PM

 On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at
 5:44 PM, Anthony Jackson <ajackson@iii.com>
 wrote:
 If you do
 it right, you may even get a donut-shaped cloud of gas, but
 even if you don't, blowing something up at the 100d
 limit will turn it into a cloud three times the size of the
 planet by the time it hits.
 Maybe an attacker counts on that. Or
 possibly even rigs his near-c rock to explode so as to
 create a VERY precise doughnut. He might do so in order to
 sweep the 100D volume clear of all defence
 installations/ships (and incidentally everything and
 everyone else . . . an "Orbital Napoleon
 Omelette," don't ya know . . . ).
 This would leave only those defences
 on/in the target world itself plus any placed outside easy
 initial engagement range to oppose his invasion
 fleet.
 NOTE: I had a
 thought on meson guns, BTW. It might be that they're
 called "meson guns" because an odd quirk of jump
 physics makes it possible to project that *particular*
 subatomic particle through local jump space to re-emerge
 nearly-instantenously at precise coordinates in [relatively]
 nearby real space.
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Ah yes, the breakthru discovery in physics by the famed terran physicist 'whats-is-name'.
Which greatly  facilitated the conquest of the 1st Imp by the upstart terrans, as every student learns in elementary school.

;-P
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