Re: [SG] meets [RL]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:20:15 +1000 , Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

>Do those things have to be "hardened" (or whatever you call it) so that
>someone couldn't fry them with an EM pulse? (I probably just showed my
>ignorance completely there sorry, but hopefully you get what I mean).

I thought someone (Oerjan, perhaps?) pointed out that it's incredibly
difficult to generate a strong enough EM pulse short of detonating a
nuke. EM
pulses as weapons in this manner are still the thing of sci-fi.

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