At 04:15 PM 10/13/00 -0700, you wrote: >Darn... maybe I was thinking MW hour. Assuming 1 >shot/hour at 1 sec duration. That should give u the >gigajoules =). Shot once and recharge for a hour. If >not, look like science didn't advance that much in a >1000 years...in the LoGH universe. Or that beam isn't >good for heating frozen dinners. Propulsion seems to have advanced. You have ships accelerating and moving tens of light seconds in a matter of hours while people sip tea on board in normal seats perpendicular to the direction of thrust instead of being smeared against walls from the acceleration. So the pseudo-scientific BS field of gravity manipulation seems to be alive and well also.