> >Oops! "Accidentally" hit Tim May's house!"
Probably not an accident.
At 11:39 PM -0700 7/26/01, Alan Olsen wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Tim May wrote:
>> > A lot of the calculations being sketched out here, of watts/cm^2,
>> > dwell times, gold coatings, etc. are slightly off-base. We've known
>> > for 20+ years that the
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Tim May wrote:
>
> > A lot of the calculations being sketched out here, of watts/cm^2,
> > dwell times, gold coatings, etc. are slightly off-base. We've known
> > for 20+ years that the kill method is to use a short pulse to "push"
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Tim May wrote:
> A lot of the calculations being sketched out here, of watts/cm^2,
> dwell times, gold coatings, etc. are slightly off-base. We've known
> for 20+ years that the kill method is to use a short pulse to "push"
> (not from the photons' momentum) in the thin wall
Being older than most of you, I remember doing some of these
calculations about burn times, laser intensities, etc. more than 20
years ago. (Although Reagan did not announce SDI until around 1983,
the topic was widely discussed in the late '70s. "Scientific
American" published articles by Prof
