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From: brooke@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Robert Heinlein and SDI
Message-ID: <420@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 18:09:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 18:09:17 1985
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Reply-To: brooke@nmtvax.UUCP (J. Brooke King)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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In article <> ph@wudma.UUCP writes:
>> > The article
>> > said that Isaac Asimov had come out against the initiative and
>> > Robert Heinlein for it.
>> 
>> Great.  Advice on space defense from people who refuse to set foot
>> in an airplane.
>> 
>> Okay, okay, in Asimov's case "refuse" might be a bit strong... how
>> about "goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid"?
>
>	And in Heinlein's case it is at least a byte strong--in fact,
>	I've never heard ANY evidence that he has any technophobic fear
>	of flying; I thought he had done it many times.  In any case
>	wouldn't such a fear be pretty silly in a man who hopes to live
>	long enough to buy a commercial ticket to the moon?
>
>						--pH

This is getting old.  Either one respects Asimov's opinions or not.  (I
am not telling you mine!)  A man's nonpreferred or preferred mode of
transportation -- rumored, inferred or factual, even if it's horse and
buggy -- has no bearing on whether or not one should respect or even
reject or accept his opinions about SDI.  These are two disjoint
subjects.
-- 

                    J. Brooke King in Socorro Funland
                     ... ucbvax!unmvax!nmtvax!brooke

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