Re: Further thoughts on hitting with lasers

>> Radar is far more accurate for targetting/tracking than a telescope.
The narrow
>> field of vision inherent in telescope design make them unsuitable for
this sort
>> of application. Coupling the targetting/tracking system to the weapon
is
>> the more difficult task.
>>
>
>Oops, 
>
>What I meant was assume the telescope is analagous to the weapon,
>as its a big heavy  thing that focuses light, how good are current
technoogies 
>for getting a telescope on a target and tracking it? If you see the
target
>in the centre of the 'scope then you just shot it. Could a terresterial
'scope
>track MIR for instance.

Well, as I noted in another msg yesterday, I know amateur astronomers
who
*hand-track* on Mir...	;-)  And at the right orientations they have
reported
they can make out the rough shape (one of my co-workers even took a
blurry
photo of the Mir and shuttle docked a few years ago; you *can* make out
the
basic shapes)

>Anyway looks like this threads is way due to diediedie now anyway.

B'bye!

:-)

Mk
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During the run-and-fight-and-run-again battle through this forest of
horror,
she is finally cornered. Her weapons have been left deep in the bodies
of the
slain or broken against the granite-hard scales of these snakes that are
not
snakes. Her stand to the death must be fought here. Though her only
weapons
are her hands and her deep and wide knowledge of the slayers, she does
not
fear them. They will die. Of this she is sure.