Re: Nanomilitary policy

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 07:17:56 MST


Spike Jones wrote:

> > > With advancing antimissile missile technology you get MA$, which
> > > is mutual assured spending. Everyone gets to go home and ponder
> > > how pointlessly wasteful is war. spike
> >
> > MAS is nice, but you get a similar problem there. Piss someone off and
> > they will shoot down your satellites. Mike Lorrey
>
> Unless of course you have the appropriate technology to prevent
> this from happening. Theres no way around it: the meek will not
> inherit the earth, it will be inherited by the technologically most
> advanced. The meek are hosed. spike

Not necessarily. If the powerful move their conflicts off earth, and they are
themselves off earth, then they might eliminate each other and leave the
primitives alone.

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TANSTAAFL!!!
Michael S. Lorrey
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"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                  - General John Stark


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