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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Re: Debris from Upcomming ASAT Test
Message-ID: <2386@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 17:05:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 17:05:54 1985
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Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

In article <6024@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) quotes:
>> ... shooting one of these [Soviet ocean-surveillance satellites] down
>> with our ASAT would guarantee that its radioactive remains re-enter the
>> atmosphere within a pretty short time...
>
>A good point.  One wonders why this has not been brought up before.

[I suppose you also wonder why the sea is boiling hot...]

In any conceivable situation in which we would be shooting down Soviet
satellites, a few stray reactors would be the LEAST of our worries.

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall

P.S. I'd rather see a pig with wings, than the sea boiling hot...
     Did someone say those were OCEAN-surveillance satellites?           oh oh