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To: pgerassi who wrote (130006)	12/21/2000 2:16:09 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1570353

Pete, Over 200,000 died in the last nuclear attack. That wasn't the Iranians. It was us who dropped the bomb. North Korea has tested missiles with a range of 1800nm and have stated that they will test one that goes about twice that. That begins to get to Anchorage Alaska. There are many military bases and other prime targets in Alaska. Why on earth would North Korea want to attack Alaska? As for asteroid deaths one need only look to Siberia in 1908. The fact that only a few dozen died was only due to the low population density. The Tunguska event was a comet, not an asteroid. Nobody lived out there, and anyway have you ever calculated the kinetic energy of a 30 foot nickel iron meteorite traveling at 100,000 miles per hour? It is impossible to make any significant change in an asteroids path, assuming that you could even hit an object moving that fast. (Which of course you can't.) Reagan used to make up stories about welfare cheats stealing a few thousand dollars, and then go off and waste tens of billions on stupid projects like Star wars and the Ronnie Raygun/ Georgie Bush Superconducting Superporker outside of Dallas. (Now used to grow mushrooms.) Scumbria