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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: Reagon's Giant Tennis Racket in the sky . . .
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 16:44:36 EDT
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     Ken Perlow has commented that he doubts that the software to
make Star Wars effective can be made to work.  Those interested
in this topic should read an article about this in Science (26 July,
page 367).  It reports the views of David Parnas, a conservative,
who has resigned from RR's advisory panel on Star Wars.

     As for the hardware, I'm willing to believe that almost every
specific device mentioned so far can be built.  They are all
susceptible to effective countermeasures that can probably be built
for a fraction of the cost.  If this effort is designed to bankrupt
the Soviet Union, I suggest we get them to build Star Wars while
we build counter-measures.

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"Don't argue with a fool.      Ethan Vishniac
 Borrow his money."            {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                               Department of Astronomy
                               University of Texas