From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 2/17/18 9:58 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha  schrieb:   
   >> Thomas Koenig  wrote in news:p67d2b$n5h$1   
   >> @newsreader4.netcologne.de:   
   >>   
   >>> Damien Valentine  schrieb:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Also, because everybody's moving around at kilometers-per-second   
   >>>> speeds, your ammunition doesn't actually need to be all that   
   >>>> heavy.  See the Atomic Rockets website, where -- I believe on   
   >>>> the "conventional weapons" page -- the author proposes using   
   >>>> kitty-litter as ammunition.   
   >>>   
   >>> That has to be a joke.   
   >>>   
   >>> In order to be useful as a ballistic weapon, and unless your enemy   
   >>> obliges you by not dodging, you'll have to accelerate your   
   >>> "bullets", probably with a fairly high acceleration.  Kitty   
   >>> litter doesn't have the mechanical strength for this.   
   >>>   
   >> Even if it disintegrated into a gas, I don't think I'd want to fly   
   >> into it at relativistic speeds.   
   >   
   > How would you acclerate kitty litter to relativistic speeds?   
      
   	Put it in a capsule. Accelerate capsule to speed. Have capsule detonate   
   (mildly) scattering kitty litter across an ever-widening area, like a   
   relativistic shotgun blast.   
      
      
      
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