Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Fiction
Message-ID: <15351@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 11 Apr 90 07:11:13 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <9687@ingr.com> burnette@ingr.UUCP (Lesley Burnette) writes:
>I just finished reading a book ...  about a
>russian agent getting control of a space shuttle that has the final and most
>secret and important piece of the SDI platform.  

Well, that's how you can tell it's fiction.

Only a casual fictionsmith would even dare to suggest that SDI might ever
be permitted to have a "final" component.

To think of program completion is to misunderstand SDI altogether! :-)
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