Re: Snaps

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 02:23:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce) wrote:

>In sci.physics
>Eric Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>Two words:  micro meteores
>>
>>Why do you think I said make a sandwich of it with the image to the
>>inside?
>
>I give up?  Ignorance of the kinetic energy contained in a mm diameter ball
>of nickel, iron or silica moving at 50 miles per second?  Why even expose
>them to this onslaught?

Nope. Knowledge of the size of the craters made by micro-meteors. Of
course there is always a chance of a really big one coming along but,
apatr from that 10mm of Titanium will stop a lot. You can improve the
odds considerably by putting up multiole copies.



Eric Stevens