Re: Fast speeds

On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> Yes. "No pre-measurement" is fine for historical (ancient/napoleonic/
> whatever) battles where there were no reliable way to measure
distances.
> For high-tech battles, however... well, if I can see you on my radar,
I
> know how far away you are, right? And I can keep track of the range
all
> the time, too. I strongly suspect the same would apply for other types
of 
> high-tech sensors or scanners too.

Still, nothing is easy as it seems, especially in the chaos and
confusion
of warfare. I find it hard to believe that computers, radar,
fire-control,
and all the futuristic high-tech sensors and scanners will make
everything
easy for the crew of a starship. After all, have computers really made
your life any easier? :)

--
Rick Rutherford ----- rickr@digex.net ----- The above opinions are mine.
"I've seen collisions on fire off the side of the ethernet LAN. 
I've seen the lights on the CSU/DSU glitter in the dark near the router.

All these things will be lost in time, like dropped packets. Time to
die."