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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: "suicides" of SDI scientists
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 01:01:04 GMT
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- -From: dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein)
- -Subject: ques about earlier "suicides" of SDI scientists
- -Date: 19 Jan 93 08:51:42 GMT
- -Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- -About five years ago, there were quite a few suicides by scientists in
- -Europe who were asociated with the US led "strategic defense initiative."
-
- -Quite a few of these seemed to be suspicious, and the gross numbers were
- -quite a bit higher than would be expected in a group of this size.
-
- -I haven't heard anything lately about this nor have I been able to track
- -down the results of any investigations. The only stuff I've found has
- -been news articles simply describing the venets.
-
- -Does anybody out there in greater NETLAND have any further info? Or can
- -you direct me to better sources?
-
- Since this corresponds extremely closely to the classic 1951 short story
- "Breeds there a Man...?", written by Isaac Asimov, and available in the
- collections "Nightfall and Other Stories" and "Nightfall One", I'd say
- there's a significant chance that you read either this story or a reference
- to this story, and now you remember it as an historical event.
-
- Or, maybe, [lowers voice to ominous tone]
- it...wasn't...just...a...story!!! [eerie music plays in background]
-
- :-)
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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