Re: Further thoughts on hitting with lasers

Christopher Pratt wrote:
> Or like fleet battles in the "Mote in Gods Eye" by Niven and Pournell,
> I takes a while for laser fire to overload a ship's sheilds and score
a kill.
	
	This is described in some detail in Pournelle's book
	A STEP FARTHER OUT, in the article about "Building the Mote
	in God's Eye".	The Alderson drive and the Langston field
	were *specifically* designed to make interstellar combat
	possible.