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Subject: Re: Psychic Warfare - an informed opinion
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Date: Sun, 15-Jan-84 00:20:54 EST
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Like I said. Better that the Russians waste their time and money on it
than us.

The nature of the excuses given by psychics as to why they can't perform
when competent skeptics are present gives me a great idea.  All we would
have to do to protect a military computer from commie sabotage is to put
the text of a net.misc article from Jeff Mayhew or myself into excess ROM
space of the machine; better yet, have the idle task periodically copy it
around spare RAM.  The resulting "bad vibes" would almost certainly
neutralize the Russkies' ability to crash the machine; not only that, it
would probably retroactively "un-do" all of the past "positive" test results!

I hope NOVA does as good a job on ESP in the upcoming show as they did
demolishing the "Bermuda Triangle" and "UFOs".  I can't wait to see a
certain net.misc ESP proponent made to look like an idiot.

Sorry for the dripping sarcasm, but I've had enough.

Phil