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From: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler)
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Subject: Re: Aviation Week on Star Wars
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 11:26:22 EST
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In article <1149@lll-crg.ARpA> medin@lll-crg.ARpA (Milo Medin) writes:
>First off, if you speak with people who work in the SDIO, they
>make no claims other than that this system is being built to
>protect our military assets primarily, and damage limitation
>to the population on a secondary basis.  The hype that some people
>(not the SDIO) are using to sell the system as a total inpenetrable
>defense is misleading.  
>
>With regards to having 10-20 million dead, contrast that to 150
>million dead.  That is a big difference.  At a recent SDI

It is the difference between believing a nuclear war is acceptable
and the absolute conviction that it is not. You sound an awful
lot like General Buck Turgidson here. Also I would point out that
10-20 million is the most optimistic estimate based on no real
life experience. We in the software business know 2 things about
such estimates - everybody likes to believe them, and they are
rarely (never?) achieved.