Re: [erm] space mirrors

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Thomas Barclay wrote:
> Thomas spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
> Easy to target and fire back at if you can fire earth-to-orbit 
> ordinance....
> > i read in the latest Nature (v395 p833) that the russians are to
deploy a
> > 2.5-metre mirror from the Mir space station

the point is that you deploy a thousand of them as scrunched-up balls of
film, and then when you need light, you expand and employ them. the
enemy
knocks them out, and you get another one.

Tom