Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Tesla Message-ID: <8887@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 15:28:47 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8887 Posted: Sun Mar 3 15:28:47 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:42:52 EST References: <131@azure.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 15 > I believe [Edison] finally settled on tungsten? Nope, carbon. I don't know who came up with tungsten. > Besides, can you imagine how the "Death Ray" device > would have been used? Yup, good thing we don't have one. > It would have been quite interesting to see Nuclear war > averted by a device that could vaporize any missile within > a 200+ MILE range. It isn't that easy. I would like to see a good missile defense, but I doubt that there is a perfect one.