[TML] A little tinkering with Lasers

[hal at buffnet.net]

At 08:04 PM 8/22/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't like the meson guns at all.  They work on a completely flawed
>premise: that the mesons will decay in a bunch at a preset distance.
>
>Actual particle decay occurs in half-lives, and would be totally useless as
>a weapon.  The decay would be spread out over the line of fire, and the bulk
>of it would happen just out of the barrel of the gun!

Frankly - I wonder just how different Traveller would have been had there
been no Meson Weapons or Meson Communications technologies