Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:TIGQC356%CUNYVM.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:TIGQC356%CUNYVM.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re:James P. Hogan's Genesis Machine Message-ID: <1867@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 2-May-85 11:17:26 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.1867 Posted: Thu May 2 11:17:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 3-May-85 05:24:57 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 30 From: Mark F. Rand I forget who wrote the letter I'm replying to(I left my printout at home), but here are the reasons why the Russians didn't build another Machine and why the Americans didn't just cut the power off.. 1)The Machine was set to destroy any other Genesis machine the instant the other machine was turned on. The machines effective range as a weopon was about the distance from the Earth to the Moon, so if a machine was built anywhere within the effective range and turned on, Kablooie!!! 2)The Machine had an internal power source that would give it just enough "juice" to explode the capitals of the U.S. and Russia if outside power were to be cut. And the Machine was in a bunker that was "safe" from being bombed(the Machine would not be damaged enough to keep it from exploding a city or two). Also if the machine detected anyone trying to force their way into its innards, another Kablooie!!! So, in effect, the Genesis Machine was "invulnerable"(or at least couldn't be put out of operation without a lot of people being put "out of opertion"). And of course since ICBM's(Inter-continental Ballistic Missles) would not be of any use(because they couldn't reach their targets), and the "defensive" missles had been left alone, attacking another country would be very "un- economical"(ground-to-air missles would get most enemy planes before those planes could do any damage). So what do we have??? An enforced peace, that apparently after 200 yrs gives everyone a chance to forget any hatred to one another...(thought seems to me, we are a very innovative race; we would find someway of fighting one another. But, there's always hope). See ya Mark Rand (Queens College, New York City) Bitnet- Tigqc356@Cunyvm Compuserve I.D. - 75615,1712 Acknowledge-To: Mark F. Rand