Re: Why big ships are too good...

Samuel Penn <sam@bifrost.demon.co.uk> said...
[heavy editing]
>And then there are EMP missiles, which can _really_ cripple big ships
>(and exactly how is an EMP missile supposed to work in the vacuum of
>space??? EMP is caused by an atmospheric effect after all).
>
>-- 
>Be seeing you,
>Sam.

Umm.  EMP = Electro Magnetic Pulse.  Nothing in there has anything to
do with an atmosphere.	This is just radiation: Light, Gamma waves,
radio waves, etc.  Travels just fine in a vacuum.  In fact, it does
better there than in the atmosphere, no pesky molecules to scatter and
absorbe it.

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