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Re: Capital vs. others Debate

From: If it's tourist season why can't we shoot them? <KOCHTE@s...>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 14:37:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Capital vs. others Debate

>@:) > For each device, the screened protection may be extended an
>@:) > additional 3" from the projecting ship.
>
>@:) According to some common opinions of the scale of FT, that's
>@:) something like 3000 kilometers of extended radius! You could land
>@:) your ship on Pluto and protect the entire surface! Or, with just a
>@:) bit more range, and you could bury it in the middle of Mars and
>@:) protect the entire planet.
>
>  Cool.  Let's do it.
>
>  Of course you'll have to find a miniature of Mars.  Let's see... at
>1/2400 scale that'd be....

111,204.2 inches.

Give or take.

;-)

Mk
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- 
"Well, you could do that. And I could nail your head to the table, set
fire
to it, and feed your charred remains to the Pak'ma'ra. But, it's an
imperfect
world, and we never get exactly what we want. So get used to it."

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