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To: Skywatcher who wrote (161149)7/15/2001 9:43:35 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Respond to of 769667
 
dear cc, >>>> I wouldn't doubt they put some little homing device on the dummy

Well let's just say that as I've worked on this kind of stuff, One would not make it more complicated as you suggest. That's the nature of a ballistic problem and a ballistic solution. Where it is is not important. Only where it's going.

you all have a nice day now hear.

tom watson tosiwmee



To: Skywatcher who wrote (161149)7/15/2001 10:04:06 PM
From: Oak Tree  Respond to of 769667
 
I'm afraid you are right. It is so easy to make a weapon of destruction and so very hard to stop it. The problem is that the world assumes that what you are really doing is putting nukes in space -- since lasers to shoot them down won't actually work. That is how the cold war escalates.