Fashionably late as ever ...
Fission or fusion devices will never be any more obsolete than a knife. They may well be superceded in terms of destructive power (pray to whichever god) but will always have their place. They kill people. Anything that does so will be as eternally usful as the bunched fist. Unfortunately.
I cannot buy stock in "a good right hander".
A few brief comments on anti-matter:
It can be stored. The do-dahs are either a Paul or Penning trap. Density distinguishes the two.
Anti-matter is incredibly expensive. So would petrol be if some chain smoker had to suck it out of the ground using a bendy straw.
The (for example) positrons created at Cern are not the specifacally designated aim of the facility. Hence, the piss-pooor efficiency and thus cost.
A dedicated device i.e. a Heavy ion collider (most likely a lineac) can produce the stuff economically.
As OoE astutely mentioned, los will soon be beam dominated. Indirect fire will, I risk, always be kinetic..
For the interested/baffled etc. I recommended some lit. in old posts somewhere. :)
Fission or fusion devices will never be any more obsolete than a knife. They may well be superceded in terms of destructive power (pray to whichever god) but will always have their place. They kill people. Anything that does so will be as eternally usful as the bunched fist. Unfortunately.
I cannot buy stock in "a good right hander".
A few brief comments on anti-matter:
It can be stored. The do-dahs are either a Paul or Penning trap. Density distinguishes the two.
Anti-matter is incredibly expensive. So would petrol be if some chain smoker had to suck it out of the ground using a bendy straw.
The (for example) positrons created at Cern are not the specifacally designated aim of the facility. Hence, the piss-pooor efficiency and thus cost.
A dedicated device i.e. a Heavy ion collider (most likely a lineac) can produce the stuff economically.
As OoE astutely mentioned, los will soon be beam dominated. Indirect fire will, I risk, always be kinetic..
For the interested/baffled etc. I recommended some lit. in old posts somewhere. :)
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