Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Laser Pulse Speed Enforcing Message-ID: <565@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 18:55:59 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.565 Posted: Wed Mar 12 18:55:59 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 07:09:46 EST References: <378@ur-tut.UUCP> <843@kitty.UUCP> <442@utastro.UUCP> <861@kitty.UUCP> <252@noscvax.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Distribution: na Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 29 In article <252@noscvax.UUCP> jordan@cod.UUCP (Martin C. Jordan) writes: >little to the returned signal. In short, the laser device is like shooting >pool, where the cue ball comes right back at you no matter what the >angle of your bank shot. > Any counters to this hypothesis? If not, I shall sleep easier >knowing Buford T. Justice will be denied his cut of the Star Wars' pie. > > Martin Jordan Hear that, Buford? Them new-fangled laser things you bought in town don' work 'tall...they's jist gonna bounce up an' hit some bird or somethin. I guess we gotta get rid of these laser sights you bought fer our guns, they won't work too well either. I'd better get on the horn and tell the boys over at the fort the bad news, b'fore Uncle Sam buys any more of the durned things. How y'all ah? -dave ;-) -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu ARPA n. [acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency.] An agency of the U.S. Department of Defense established in 1968 to test its defenses against misuse and piracy in the large-scale distributed processing environment. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"