[TML] A little tinkering with Lasers

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 23 Aug 2007 at 9:46, Glenn M. Goffin wrote:

> Meson communicators don't have much impact on communications in a
> star system.  Theoretically you could talk to a ship on the other
> side of a planet, but you have to know exactly where it is, so you
> need some kind of sensor link, so you might as well use laser or
> maser comm through the link.  You have the same time lag as laser or
> radio.

Uh, no. The lag time is a lot lower because the radio/laser link has 
to go "around" the planet (likely adding 50 to 100 percent to the lag 
time) while the mesons take the straight line path.


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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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