[ExI] Power sats as weapons

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 03:00:41 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:36 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's true, you do need to deliver thermonuclear bombs. If you want to send
> a package from Korea to New York City one way to do it is to strap the
> package to the top of a rocket and blast it on a 10,000 mile ballistic
> trajectory to that city, another much cheaper way to deliver your package is
> to use UPS or Federal Express. There is another advantage, its anonymous. If
> I launch a rocket with a nuclear warhead it's obvious that I sent it, but if
> New York were to just blow up one day, well who knows how it happened.

I was curious to know if you were aware that you wrote this on 9/11.

I don't know if it's irony or synchronicity, but I thought it was noteworthy.



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