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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: where are the aliens headed??
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 05:20:24 EST
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In article <8603210822.AA02367@s1-b.arpa> REM%IMSSS@SU-AI.ARPA (Robert Elton Maas) writes:
>EV> In this paper Michael Harris points out that alien spacecraft using an
>EV> antimatter drive will have large proper motions and be quite conspicuous.
>
>You are omitting something very important. Hint: In military, if you
>see an artillery shell with zero proper motion? Answer, run like hell
>in any direction. Do I have to spell it out?

Oh.  Is THIS why we need to continue the shuttle program?  Understood.

>                                             (The proposed method will
>fail to detect any alien craft that is headed directly for Earth, such
>as an invading force, on its way to stamp out the society responsible
>for Howdy Doody and the McCarthy hearings as well as everybody
>involved in World War 2 on both sides.)

It will also fail to detect any alien craft LEAVING Earth, while trying to
maximize their distance between us and them.  You don't think it's anything
we said, do you?

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720