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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Who can launch antisats? (was Re: DoD launcher use)
- Message-ID: <C0Js9I.87@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:20:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.144135.14439@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec14.221347.3359@iti.org> <1992Dec16.092029.27518@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec16.202219.2063@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec17.110426.8596@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec17.1 <1992Dec21.164114.1@fnala.fnal.gov> <1992Dec24.022440.27944@ke4zv.u <1993Jan05.172440.14403@eng.umd.edu> <1993Jan06.212430.15120@eng.umd.edu> <1993Jan07.203533.10511@eng.umd.edu> <ewright.726514832@convex.convex.com>
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- In article <ewright.726514832@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >>It is not for nothing DARPA has a love with microsats and ways to get them
- >>quickly into orbit. And what DARPA is doing is in the sunshine.
- >
- >Microsats are incapable of replacing photorecon satellites. The
- >laws of physics prevent it. To get adequate resolution, you need
- >a large mirror (or large radar)...
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- Define "adequate". Microsat levels of resolution should be adequate
- for many military requirements. Tactical commanders don't care about
- the license-plate numbers on the tanks...
-
- >>... We really didn't NEED to get the UN's blessing, did we?
- >
- >Of course we didn't. The United States has gone to war numerous
- >times in the past. It has never needed permission of the United
- >Nations before. It was George Bush who set that (dangerous) precendent.
-
- Careful here... I don't know exactly what legal maneuvers took place
- when the US formally joined the UN, but if the UN Charter has the status
- of a Senate-ratified treaty, that means it has the force of law in the
- US... and one of the clauses in there is a renunciation of war as an
- instrument of national policy.
-
- Of course, that just means everybody calls it a "police action" instead...
- --
- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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