re: Think of the military applications

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Success_Machine — 12/30/2003 3:11:37 AM (archived)

A shield that converts all incoming matter into neutrinos. It would be like projecting a 'sphere of invincibility' around tanks, aircraft, personel carriers, soldiers. And think of all the money that could go into researching this idea!!! I'm just revelling in my own creativity... :-)

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Relativistic Nuclear Diffraction Shield for starships and interstellar torpedos - Success_Machine - 12/29/2003 1:58:35 PM
- Instead of directing the protons away... - Scott Evil - 12/30/2003 4:45:41 PM
  - re: Well, that idea has been proposed before - Success_Machine - 12/30/2003 5:05:39 PM
    - The Anti-matter ramscoop? Where and by whom? (n/t) - et - 12/30/2003 7:49:45 PM
      - re: Here we go again, the Anti-matter ramscoop - Success_Machine - 12/30/2003 8:10:30 PM
        
        My questions were... - et - 12/30/2003 8:32:05 PM
        
        Dr. Robert W. Brussard. Nevermind SM.... (n/t) - et - 12/30/2003 9:11:09 PM
        
        re: The major problem with the Interstellar Ramscoop idea - Success_Machine - 12/31/2003 2:22:45 AM
        
        Well then: do both... N/T (n/t) - Scott Evil - 12/31/2003 6:00:20 AM
        
        Well, the neutrino carries spin and a teensy weensy bit of mass, right? - et - 12/31/2003 6:41:07 AM
        
        Draw up a paper. Go ahead and put Scott Evil as one of the names on it as well as the rest of the regulars here. - Scott Evil - 12/31/2003 3:34:29 PM
- Cherenekov radiation? - Nick Hoffman - 12/30/2003 3:02:00 AM
  - re: Think of the military applications - Success_Machine - 12/30/2003 3:11:37 AM
- Waving aside the assertion that the only thing in space you might run into would be lonely protons... - alcaray - 12/30/2003 12:13:05 AM
  - re: A proton diameter = 1 millionth of a nanometer - Success_Machine - 12/30/2003 1:29:04 AM
- re: Relativistic Nuclear Diffraction Shield for starships and interstellar torpedos - Success_Machine - 12/29/2003 7:02:53 PM
  - Wow... SM you are a true lateral thinker... - Adam - 12/29/2003 10:41:09 PM
    - re: Thanks! Recipe for lateral thinking: a box of chocolates and 18 hrs sleep. - Success_Machine - 12/29/2003 11:05:26 PM

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