RE: Sandcasters, was [FT] Vector...

>Nor does *anything* moving fast through such a cloud
>including hyper velocity projectiles from railguns. A dense
>enough cloud to attenuate beams would also ablate anthying
>moving through it at a high velocity.

This is why I favor the ADAF type mechanic for sand, close in to the
"casting" vessel, as opposed to the launched vesion.

Schoon