Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ucbvax!space From: bilbo.niket@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU ("Niket K. Patwardhan") Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V6 #65 Message-ID: <8601032026.AA26913@s1-b.arpa> Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 14:44:53 EST Article-I.D.: s1-b.8601032026.AA26913 Posted: Fri Jan 3 14:44:53 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jan-86 05:46:29 EST References: , <8601031112.AA Sender: dillon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 9 I suspect the real reason Orion died was the nuclear test ban treaty. It would have polluted the air just as much as the tests would have and then there would have been no logical reason for banning the tests...... As for how many deaths one would accept, a priori, to achieve a goal, the answer should be NONE! The only time you accept death as necessary is when you fight a war. But after the fact, when you evaluate whether a task was worth the effort, you can count the deaths and the benefits and say "Yes.. it was worth it" or "No, it wasn't".