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caseymoz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-26-09 02:56 PM
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39. As I say below, I just think they just went down a blind alley.
Edited on Sun Apr-26-09 03:01 PM by caseymoz
They tried to use lasers for the compression-- that is now demonstrated to be ineffective. Lasers were gee-whiz cool at the time, very thrilling, so much so that when it failed, scientists spent incredibly amounts of money trying to solve the problems, but they never re-examined the basic approach. Did anybody ever ask, why lasers would work?

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