oogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Martin Pratt
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 17:03
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fly me to the moon - by catapult
I like the idea, but I've got the one problem- aiming. What if the aim's
off by a ahlf-degree?
I like the idea, but I've got the one problem- aiming. What if the aim's off by
a ahlf-degree? One way, you miss your target entirely. The other, you hit the
wrong target, possibly causing massive destruction. Mister Optimism Junior,
signing off.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes the most cru
Sometimes the most crude and far-out seeming ideas may prove to be workable
after all.When I was college, Ed Teller--one of the major developers of the
H-bomb--spoke at my engineering society. He was a big advocate of the Star Wars
system. Teller advocated a system of giant, perpetually spinnin
