From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 19:49:16 +0800
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [NOISE] What is "laser material"?
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÷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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