From: | Starjammer <starjammer@**********.COM> |
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Subject: | Re: Demolish or Recycle |
Date: | Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:08:34 -0500 |
<snip rationale for demolition>
>So, would a triple-A megacorp have the same ammount of red-tape
>mentality?
>
>What I'm getting at, is... Might we see at one point, Renraku, make
>the decision to stop throwing good money after bad, and just demolish
>the arcology from the outside?
Very possibly, although I kinda wonder if old Ineki would be willing to see
his baby go down without a fight. Could shake things up inside Renraku...
>This raises an interesting question: how would you go about
>demolishing a huge hardened building in the middle of downtown, from
>the outside, without damaging the surrounding area?
Most likely, given the defenses of the Arcology, precision-guided
high-kinetic-energy projectiles. That's the US Army's current tank-killing
weapon of choice. No messy explosives or chemicals, just a piece of shaped
metal or composite travelling at a few hundred meters a second. It'll blow
right through almost anything.
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