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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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Subject: Re: Deep Question(s)
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 14:22:04 EDT
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Summary: Effects of new stars


In article <2867@topaz.ARPA> Miller.pasa@Xerox.ARPA writes:
>Two questions for all you deep thinkers and bibliophiles out there:
>
>First, I just saw 2010 for the first time the other night [...]
>  I left the theater with this one big, sort-of
>psychological question:  assuming everything happened just the way the
>movie said it did, how did people on Earth react?


This has been discussed before, but I didn't particularly agree with any
of the answers given, so I'll put my two cents worth in now.

There is an important difference between the short term and long term
effects of such an event.  As I remember, the U.S. and the Soviet Union
were about ready to go to war at that point.  I think the events in and
around Jupiter would be quite sufficient to prevent that war.  (Of course,
an outbreak of war was not certain; it never is, until it actually happens.)

In the long run, humans are humans, and politics as usual will resume.