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From: karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Beamed Power
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 12:56:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 11 12:56:22 1985
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> AWST (Dec. 9, page 18) reports that SDIO is claiming "incredible
> progress" in developing free-electron lasers at Livermore.  The

I'm glad SDIO is able to make "incredible progress". That way they'll soon
run out of toys to play with and run headlong into the fundamental issues,
like the speed of light and the optical diffraction limit.

Next thing we know, Abrahamson and Weinberger will announce an intensive
research program into circumventing these two minor inconveniences.  After
all, they'll claim, nobody gave Einstein, who wasn't even an American for
chrissake, the right to pass laws that true-blue Americans have to obey.
"If we can land a man on the moon, why can't we travel faster than the speed
of light?" I can hear it now.

Phil