Re: colonial weapons

I thought I heard some deer hunters at work (I live in Texas where
EVERYBODY 
except me hunts deer it seems) talking about a "LASER sight" so-and-so 
bought last deer season.  Granted they were talking about a sporting
sight.	
But if it can done today for sport why not in a decade or two for the 
military (you know, the guys with the mult-million dollar budgets)?

Scott

>From: Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: colonial weapons
>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:59:51 -0500 (EST)
>
>On 29-Jan-02 at 19:26, John Atkinson (johnmatkinson@yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> > By 2015, we'll be doing pretty well to have a working
> > infantry weapon with a laser rangefinder on it.
>
>Really?  I thought the next generation weapon had a laser rangefinder
>to set where the grenades go off.  I would think 13 years would be
>enough time to get all the kinks out.	But then there is Roger's
>Rule of Thumb, "Nothing is ever easy."  This one is from many
>years of being a Unix Sysadmin, but it seems to apply elsewhere.
>
>Roger Books (A program to play FT via a web interface?  Easy.	DOH)

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