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From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Advanced Weapons Research
Message-ID: <302@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 22:01:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 22:01:49 1985
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In article <1569@trwrba.UUCP> heins@trwrba.UUCP (Michael T. Heins) writes:
>
> Many people are not aware of the following interesting fact:
>
>	If you accelerate an ordinary cotton ball to 0.75 the speed
>	of light in a vacuum, it is capable of completely vaporizing
>	a normal size human head in less than 50 milliseconds.

This doesn't surpise me in the least.  What *I* want to know is...
"Can you accelerate a cotton ball to any significant velocity and punch
a nice clean hole through a human being's head?"

The answer to this question will no doubt have great military
significance.  If your machine was paid for out of a DoD research grant
then your findings will no doubt be classified and your news feed will
be terminated.

Anyone seen the ALV (Autonomous Land Vehicle) with it's gaudy racing stripes?
Jeeze!  You know how they're going to use this thing as a weapon?  They'll
simply drive it into a communist city and park it in the middle of the
busiest intersection in town.