Re: Drifting to DSII (was Re: New Fighter Types (drifting OT....))

There were actual RL plans for building these weapons?	Were these
connected with Star Wars or something?

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Even the engineers are not *this* depraved.  This must be the work of
the
Med. students.

						- A friend of mine

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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Brad Holden wrote:

> 
>    Actually...yes.  But I was thinking that the THOR system (a real
project, 
>    never developed, AFAIK...) was more along the lines of a crowbar,
or 
>    something.  Fired from OWP (Orbital Weapons Platforms).  We never
made the 
>    good stuff (Orion, Thor, etc.).
> 
> Well, Orion and Thor kinda expensive (though from a military/power
> projection standpoint Thor would be an awesome replacement for Nukes.)
> 
> A prototype for Orion was built using high-explosives, see John
McPhee's
> The Curve of Binding Energy for details.
> 
> 7.2e15 Joules of energy is a bit steep for a battlefield weapon, thats
> more a city destroyer.  Maybe the original poster got the units wrong?
> The Thor I read about was more like 1m long an 0.5 cm in diameter,
something
> small enough to survive reentry and not leave an enormous crater.  It
has
> the added bonus of not killing the poor slob ordering the fire
mission....
> 
> 
> cheers
> brad
>