Re: Teeny Nukes

From: "Roger Burton West" <roger@firedrake.org>

> Gyrobombs!
> 
> With sufficient materials tech, you can get more energy per mass in a
> spinning gyroscope than in any current chemical explosive. 

But moving them would be a bitch due to gyroscopic effects.
You wouldn't want em to start precessing....

BTW I talked with an astronomer not so long ago: one of the more
exotic objects under study is a (suspected) black hole, with an
accretion disk showing a doppler of 1/3c on one side, -1/3c on the
other.

I *really* don't want to think about the tidal forces on something
 whose orbital velocity is 1/3c and whose period is in millisecs.
"It's matter, Jim, but not as we know it."