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From: pagiven@drutx.UUCP (GivenP)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: RE: Space burial
Message-ID: <2057@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 14:39:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 14:39:24 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Feb-85 03:26:19 EST
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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Has SSI considered the possibility that they could be starting  our
first inter-stellar war?  I, for one, would consider it a very hos-
tile act if someone were to fire little  ash-filled  titanium  cap-
sules  at  me.   Such bullets propelled by light-sails, as at least
one netter proposed, could  reach  their  victims  at  .999c  given
enough  time.  Even if launched only with enough velocity to escape
the solar system, those little bullets would pack  quite  a  wallop
when  impacting  a  target  at  some  great differential speed.  An
angry, intelligent civilization so threatened could  easily  calcu-
late the trajectories and figure out where they came from.

ZAP! we're history!

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