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Re: How big is a troopship? [DS/FT/SG2] (and what it all means)

From: "I-95. It's not just a road. It's a state of mind." <KOCHTE@s...>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:48:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: How big is a troopship? [DS/FT/SG2] (and what it all means)

>> Ok picture this scene. Said Yahoo with shoulder fired launcher (oh by
the way a
>> nuke warhead right now weighs in at under 60lbs so lets half that or
quarter it
>> for a little micro nuke seeing we're talking 200 years from now  lets
fly and
>> vaporizes the back half of the lander a 1000 feet up.
>
>Nukes don't get any smaller due to physics. Also your guy fires a nuke 
>1000 feet up. How much lead is he carring around? I do not want to be 
>anywhere close to 1000 feet from any nuclear detonation. 

I'd imagine that one of the more radical IF might not worry about that
too
much.

;-)

Mk
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