[ExI] EP, lasers and power satellites

[The Avantguardian]

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> Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2012 8:39 AM
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> As the number of nations with nuclear missiles proliferates, we transition
> from the no-longer-practical notion of mutual assured destruction to the
> more comfortable and far cheaper era of mutual assured survival.  As more
> nations get THAAD, it becomes pointless for nations to develop nuclear
> missiles, sooo...  We take them apart and make power plants out of the
> now-useless warheads.  

Something tells me that era and this era were the same era: The era of caculated risk. Nothing is ever assured in life, not even death nor taxes, despite urban myth to the contrary.

> 
> Along with this is the delightful mutual assured making a buttload of money
> for controls engineers.  Then warfare transitions once again, to nations
> attacking each other by sending viruses to infest the other guy's computers.
> Deal!

You can't squeeze the fat future through the narrow now without crushing a lot of hopes. There will always be work for those who specialize in crushing hope.
 
Stuart LaForge


"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." -Thucydides.