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- From: james@cs.UAlberta.CA (James Borynec; AGT Researcher)
- Subject: Re: Justification for the Space Program
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:14:53 GMT
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- henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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- >How? Earth-based antisatellite weapons are simple and cheap; anything
- >in Earth orbit can easily be destroyed from Earth. Unless you assume
-
- Ok, I'll take that bet, blow up the moon. It's certainly in Earth orbit.
- By your argument it should be "easily destroyed". I'll even let you
- break a small sweat in your efforts.
-
- I do not grant that current ASAT weapons would be effective against
- "hardened" satelites. We have never gotten into that kind of arms race
- in any serious fashion.
-
- I do know that transportation from the moon to LEO is about 25 times
- easier than transportation from Earth to LEO.
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- The military tends to follow ther merchants. A powerful moon colony
- would have MUCH more at stake in the orbital sweepstakes than the
- mother planet (with all of her unruly children).
-
- j.b.
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