Re: [NOISE] What is "laser material"?

[Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>]

�On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
> >...
> >   Nautilus would be beamed from a truck capable of firing 50
> >   shots before requiring more laser material. 
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what "more laser material" means?

I think it's something nasty like a flouride of some kind (I seem to 
remember reading that the biggest problem with anti-missile lasers has 
been stopping them frm disolving the pongos firing it. 

Definitely sounds nice if it works. I've had scuds fired at me and I 
didn't enjoy it :)

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