Re: rooting for the Americans

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Jan 18 2003 - 14:15:05 MST


D. Broderick stated:
<<Just so. On the second point, Heinlein was clearly out of order; this was
not a matter for USians alone, it had the capability of capsizing the whole
international balance of power. I believe Clarke `apologized' to calm
Heinlein down, but not because he felt he'd been wrong in making this
important point on Homeland soil.
Damien Broderick>>

Clarke was and is wrong about "over-unity" engines working as energy
producing machinery; Heinlein was wrong about SDI at the time. I am speaking
of the star wars aspect-lasers and particle beams. Last year, even physicists
Postel and and Tsipis acknowledged in a paper, that destroying ICBM's in
Boost-Phase was technically doable. These guys were the original opponents of
Star Wars at MIT, and the founding fathers of the Nuclear Winter hypothesis.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Jan 21 2003 - 17:10:21 MST