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- From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Space, the final frontier
- Message-ID: <gJgRXB2w164w@tweekco.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:19:39 PST
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- a_weitz@pavo.concordia.ca (WEITZMAN, ANDREW) writes:
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- > The questions about the military use of railguns is quite appropriate.
- > One of the first SF book to include the idea of a railgun--or magnetic
- > catapult, as it is called--was Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
- > Among the concepts proposed there was the military use of a railgun
- > from the moon; the rebels who sought to throw off Earth domination
- > newsgroups.
- >
- > Andrew the Wandering Jew (and SF fan)
-
- Remember that the INTENDED use of the catapult described in the Heinlein
- book was to deliver cargo in the form of wheat to Earth. Almost ANYTHING
- can be used as a weapon, regardless of original intention...
-
- As for moving the thread, given its relevance to long term human survival
- and to preserving and reclaiming the eco-system of planet Earth and other
- goals that pagans are at least nominally interested in, I started the
- thread and I'm not interested in moving it anywhere. However, I have
- no objection to crossposting it into the sci.space and other related
- newsgroups...
- Blessed Be,
- A.Lizard
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