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From: corwin@hope.UUCP (John Kempf)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Eggs in one basket...
Message-ID: <204@hope.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 00:32:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 00:32:47 1986
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> I've seen some comments about interstellar war being impossible due to
> the distances involved.  These comments strike me a optimistic.  Indeed,
> the technology needed for making starships can be adapted without
> difficulty to build interstellar weapons.
> 
[descriptions of intersteller weapons deleted]

While it is certainly possible to make intersteller war, the 
question is 'why bother?'

What possible motive could be concieved for making a war?
Conquest?  Kinda hard to adminisrate a planet when it takes 
several years to communicate with it.  Eventualy, it would revolt
successfully.
Idiological?  It is hard enough to get one country to agree on something,
let alone a planet.
Resources?  Seems kinda wasteful to attack one solar system when there 
are others at about the same distance (including your own)
-cory