Re: Teeny Nukes

Blish's Cities in Flight series, iirc.

A pretty cool invention. The engineering applications are pretty wide, 
although after a bout with calculus I go in for more of John A's type of

engineering these days.

ShldWulf@aol.com wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:23:47 +0000, Roger Burton West 
> <roger@firedrake.org>
> wrote:
>
> >Side effect: the fragments come out more or less in a disc, rather
than
> >in a sphere. Depending on what you're doing, this can be a lot more
> >efficient than a normal explosion. Great for bounding landmines, for
> >example.
>
> Ohhh.. Reminds me of "TDX," gravity polarized explosive. I remember it

> from a Traveller's Journal article.. can't recall the Sci-Fi they got 
> it from though...
>
> Exploded parallel with gravity....
>
> Cut the legs off you... literally
>
> Randy