Space Mirrors

> When the Strategic Defense Initiative(Star Wars) was
> being researched, one of the consequences was the
> realization that particle beam weapons wouldn't work
> for beans in atmosphere, as the beam interacts with
> the atmosphere and degrades to quickly to be useful in
> knocking down incoming missles. So we're stuck with
> anti-missle missles.

Wasn't most of SDI planned around hitting missiles while they were
still above the atmosphere?

> Score one for atmosphere. By itself it limits our
> options to make war,,,
>
> GAry 7

But not to make love. ^_^