Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!julian From: julian@osu-eddie.UUCP (Julian Gomez) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: target of September's ASAT test Message-ID: <639@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 19:11:27 EDT Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.639 Posted: Fri Oct 4 19:11:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 08:02:11 EDT References: <121@bambi.UUCP> Organization: Ohio State Univ., CIS Dept., Cols, Oh. Lines: 18 > In all fairness, the target of the September ASAT test, P78-1, was > an Air Force-launched, DARPA-funded satellite with a number of > armed forces experiments on board, and I would have to say that > the government had a perfect right to shoot it down, if you > believe that the government owns the things it funds. Any argument > against the choice of target would have to hinge on whether it > was in the public interest to destroy this particular satellite. >... They own the Denver Mint and the Federal Building here in Columbus, so they can shoot those down if they feel like it? Come to think of it, that might be in the public interest {:-) -- "If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?" Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez Computer Graphics Research Group, The Ohio State University {ucbvax,decvax}!cbosg!osu-eddie!julian Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com