Re: Blacker than Black
From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:47:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Blacker than Black
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 04:05:31PM -0700, Richard Bell wrote:
>Being all-angle stealthy in space is
>impossible and making yourself stealthy to certain observers is hard
>enough. If you intend to do more than hang in space, absent some kind
>of inertialess drive, stealth is impossible
As one U.S. General is reported to have said when trying to understand
why SDI wasn't going to be practicable on a large scale: "Whoever came
up with these laws of physics is some kinda god-damned commie!"
R