[time-nuts] Dumb Cs beam question: mechanical shock sensitivity?

[Rex]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 23:36:34 -0700, "Christopher Hoover"
<ch at murgatroid.com> wrote:

>(Those 16" guns were amazing, said to be equivalent to tossing a VW bug
>up to 23 miles.)
>

From a hill in Vietnam I watched the New Jersey firing one day. Puff of
smoke from the ship way out there on the water, then turn your head and
wait for the explosion way inland. Kind of like a giant tennis match. We
talked about that VW analogy that day.