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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot mount root during install? Date: 13 May 1995 20:17:09 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3p3445$6fe@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3o4lp2$b2i@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3ottl6$l7@park.uvsc.edu> <3ov1ba$93e@agate.berkeley.edu> <3p0kij$cf7@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3p0kij$cf7@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >Gimme a break! Like anyone would go to the expense of throwing >a single-use two beam K-alpha reflector cavity with little Pb >wires running out each end just to use the EMP to drive an X-Ray >laser that isn't as powerful as a thermal pumped free electron This thread has already gotten way too silly (not surprising in this group, I suppose! :) but just to correct a slight misconception: I wasn't talking about using or steering gamma. The X-ray laser you cook off in orbit is only to ionize the path down to the user, it's a one off. You have the relay sat slightly above and "behind" the X-ray nuke and you pump something else (pulsed ion laser pumped with Hfl?) down the ionized path. I originally suggested putting the multi-shot message laser further back and using a relay, but in retrospect perhaps that was lame. I think you could do it with the same satellite, assuming that you had decent steering control and enough Hydrazine to move it around during its operational lifetime. I dunno.. I think the whole issue of space-based weapons hasn't been taken to anything near its level of potential sophistication yet.. :-) Jordan