Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!philmtl!philabs!gotham!ursa!jmd From: jmd@ursa.UUCP (Josh Diamond) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Soviet Shuttle Message-ID: <1863@ursa.UUCP> Date: 14 Sep 89 17:28:51 GMT References: <4821@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <31711@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: jmd@theodore.UUCP (Josh Diamond) Organization: Bear Stearns, New York Lines: 27 In article <31711@ames.arc.nasa.gov> watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson) writes: >In article <4821@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> doug@loihi.hig.hawaii.edu (Doug Myhre) writes: >>Wonder what the possibility of the Soviets using their shuttle down the >>line to retrieve one of our spy satellites for it's technology. I would >>hope our satellites have some sort of self-distruct mechanism on it to >>deter such action. > >Maybe we could endow our spy satellites with the ability to become >"parasitic" once it is swallowed by their space shuttle. > >Gee, I wish the CIA or NSA would hire me to read sci-fi and think up fun >senerios like this (and paying me lots of money). Are you guys listening? :-) Have you ever seen the movie _Three_Days_of_the_Condor_? Later... Josh Diamond AKA Spidey!!! -- /\ \ / /\ Josh Diamond {philabs.phillips.com, sun.com}!gotham!ursa!jmd //\\ .. //\\ AKA Spidey!!! ...!{sun, pwcmrd, philabs, pyrnj}!gotham!ursa!jmd //\(( ))/\\ / < `' > \ Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. -- Michaelangelo