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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
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Subject: Re: Thermonuclear Device
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 19:40:55 EST
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>I would like to see anybody's SDI knock out half a mole of billiard balls
>traveling at tens of kilometers per second.
>
Lets see, 1/2 mole ~= 1E23 = 4.6E7^3.  A billiard ball is about
3 inches in diameter.  This gives us a cube of billiard balls ~2000
miles on a side.  I don't think this is practical. :-)
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim