I'm pretty sure if they replace the F18s with Cessnas, no one would know the difference! :) would they?

Wouldn't it be easier to build a maglev accellerator?

I would live till the end of the universe...
Along the way I will amass infinite knowledge of the universe, and as the universe dies, I will clap my hands, and proclaim "Let there be light"

standards...

Mining Laser? But I don't want to retrofit my Cobra Mk3 again... I've got it just the way I like it... the Thargoids are no threat to me...

Thank god it wasn't Chuck Norris...

That's likely to be the case here for some time to come...

The facts of relativistic bombardment: A missile approaching at a speed close to that of light is hard to detect, leaves very little time to react, is next to impossible to intercept, and is utterly devastating on impact. In short, once a civilization has achieved the technological level necessary for relativistic bombardment it can erase a neighboring civilization in a single strike.

The Killing Star is a hard science fiction novel by Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski - it covers quite easily how to rid the galaxy of us human scum...

Relativistic kinetic weapons - stand back and watch the fireworks...

(Damn good, if hard reading SciFi)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Star

Why does Zimbardo look like the Master?

And Footfall... although they're not technically mammoths or elephants...

Maybe it's time the Dr Who script writers borrowed RAH's "All you Zombies" novella, and adapted it for the screen :) I'd love to see that!

Why not curve it up the side of a mountain - extend it to 4 miles long... strap a shuttle to it...(accelerate at 3g the whole way) ... zoom!

Also - make a 4 mile long version - going up the side of a mountain... - strap a shuttle to it... at the end of the 4 miles it's doing Mach 6...