Re: Colonists and Weapons

>There are experimental gauss weapons, they were developed as part of
>the SDI project.

And there are REAL, practical LASERs in use today that can burn a hole 
through a soldier.  Granted, they are not man-portable on a battlefield,

etc., etc... but the fact that they exist in commercial (i.e.
economically 
feasible) applications makes LASERs decades closer than their gauss 
equivalents (at least).

Scott

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