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From: brucec@orca.UUCP (Bruce Cohen)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: space station killing
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Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 17:44:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 25 17:44:58 1984
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>>   The true Bedouin never poisons his neighbor's well,
>>   no matter how he feels about the creep.  
>>   

Very true, Lance, but somehow I don't see the combatants in an orbital combat
as Bedouins.  Note that neither the U.S.  nor the USSR seems very concerned
about the effect on central Europe of a major tank/tactical nuclear battle.
And not too many people in the government or the military listened to the
protests against Operations Argus and Starfish (they detonated nuclear bombs
on LEO to see the effect on the ionosphere) or Operation Haystack (this one
dumped a few kilos of metal needles into orbit to see if they would reflect
radio waves).  The moral seems to be that those who don't live there don't
care what their actions do to the habitability or usability of a place.

				Bruce Cohen
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