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From: KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch")
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Subject: Re: Antimatter
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 16:58:39 EST
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    From: Paul Dietz <dietz%slb-doll.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>

    By the way, an explosion with
    the force of "trillions of H bombs" would require the annihillation
    of tens of millions of tons of antimatter.  Might we make it in
    gram quantities first?

  Not if you want to take a reasonable mass (1000 people plus all
resources needed to start a colony) to the stars in a reasonable time
(less than a century).

    Even at current prices, antimatter might be useful
    for triggering "clean" fusion weapons.

  Just what we need.  (Talk about hair trigger!)
								...Keith