>TML nightly Mon Nov 19 20:32:42 PST 1990 Volume 12 : Issue 5
>
>Jim Cheetham says...
>
>They developed a gravitational field effect that generated (I think)
>several thousand Gs on it's surface - the first time it was tried
>
>When the system became portable, they started using it for fighters,
>as a marvellous way of stopping laser and mass weapons (yes, photons
Gravity for stopping lasers? This would work for missles, maybe, via tidal
effects, but not lasers. The G-field would provide a doppler shift to the
shorter wavelengths, *INCREASING* the destructive energy applied to your hull.
This is exactly the opposite of what you want.
Unless I'm all wet, of course <drip, drip, drip> ;+)
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Paul Baughman [email removed]