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Subject: Re: Space Race etc
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Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 21:19:27 EST
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 When I was 12 years old I read a book by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
and became "enlightened".  Of course, the answer to an arms race was to
expand into space!  We were at Engdahl's so-called critical point, where
we must either expand into space or blow our selves to smithereens.
Since then, I've had a lot of years to think about it.  Space is not how
you avert a nuclear war.  Space is what you do to divert your
technological itchiness *after* you're no longer building bombs.

But we have to get to that point first.
-- 
        -=< Lady Arwen >=-

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