by IsaacKuo <mechdan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Feb 14, 2008 at 12:57 PM
On Feb 14, 12:38=A0pm, jdnic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(James Nicoll) wrote:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 General situation: nicked from one of my old scenarios,
> the plucky Jovians [1] have cunningly got the largest economy in the
> Solar System pissed off at them and can reasonably expect
> a fairly massive invasion fleet to start taking the outer moons
> any day now (And because stealth is impossible, they know
> exactly when the fleet will arrive).
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 No doubt they will apply any number of defensive
measures
> but the one I am curious about is if it's worth trying to make
> Jupiter's Van Allen Belts even more unfriendly than they are [2].
Given the stupendous volume of space involved, I can't imagine
any more cost effective method of making the Van Allen Belts
any more unfriendly than mass producing guided missiles or
other weapon systems to attack the invaders directly.
Dumb unguided obstacles of any sort can only be effective if
there's a sufficiently small bottleneck involved. Of course,
"sufficiently small" is also a "how high is up" question.
Isaac Kuo
