Re: breaching 101

----- Original Message -----
From: Barclay, Tom <tomb@bitheads.com>
To: Gzg Digest (E-mail) <GZG-L@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:48 PM
Subject: breaching 101

> 1: Bob - I had in mind that the nanites would eat plaster or whatever,
but
> not like eating cloth/metal/humans.... so you could go through without
risk
> (and yes, a limited lifespan is just good sense). As for the release
of
CQB
> 2183, it'll be shortly after my new website comes on-line with Adrian
-
give
> it a month or two. ;)

Did you guys read Moonwar...nanites...scary.

>
> 2: Los spake sagely:
>
> Of course then there can be other specialist sci-fi cutting devices of
the
> laser - plasma type. Potentially PA mounted.
>
> --> Or, perhaps something like a tube charge you just lay against the
wall
> in the pattern you want (a big door) and which, when activated, cuts
through
> the wall like a laser cutter or via a burst of plasma. Or perhaps some
nasty
> explosive polarized in a direction we want and controlled by a small
> microcomputer to only detonate in the direction we want it to go (once
you
> have contra-grav, lots of odd things are possible) - or maybe the
cutting
> agent is a grav pulse... just rip you a door sized hole without a huge
> shockwave... so you could follow it in immediately....

It could store its energy in a single capacitor.

Los