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Subject: Reagon's Giant Tennis Racket in the sky . . .
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Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 23:24:00 EDT
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Say, guys (and dolls) how about a little jaw jaw on 'Star Wars' from the
point of view of will/can it work.  Ken Perlow contrasts it with the English
radar net of WWII fame and says the opinion was that the radar would work
- not a true statement by the way, it was thought by many as useless and took
an uphill fight (like many new ideas in peace or in war) to produce - and 
that somehow the Star Wars Defense is something that there is a consensus on
to the effect that it won't work or can't be built.  Also not true - got to
stop reading only those Commie Front rags Ken - the growing consensus is that
it CAN be built and WILL be effective ( that it, or anything, will not be
100% effective is a red herring) especially now that the (Commie) Concerned
Scientists for Peace have been shown to be lying in their figures put about
to dispute the concept - they keep revising downward certain key figures that
make their case.  Where are the 'scientists' who said lasers in space couldn't
be built???  I mean those not recalled to Russia.

Arndt' you glad boobs rule in the Worker's Paradise?  I mean we all like boobs
here, except for a certain minority of a minority who think I don't like them,
but if the Krem Vax guys were really on the ball they'd be a lot further along
the road to happyness.  All they'd have to do is be nicy, nicy for a little
while - but they just can't.  Keep shootin' down civilian airliners, etc.
Just can't fool all the people some of the time.  Only some of them.  And
we know who THEY are.  

I view Usenet as a sort of extended school paper.  It attracts the maladjusted
loudmouths - tee hee, not me of course.  The rest of the people are off trying
to make a livin' or learn something - those to whom the world OWES a livin'
a la Great Society and those who ALREADY know it all tend to be mind melding
across the ether "we are a great people and it must be so because we all say so"and can afford to look reality in the eye and deny it.

On second thought, let's not talk about it.  Let's just watch it be built!

Keep chargin'

Ken Arndt