paranoia implies ineptness (was: Re: SPACE: SIRTF survey)

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 21:10:25 MDT

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    At 03:48 PM 8/24/03 -0700, Robert wrote:

    >Of interest to me will be whether an "accident" happens. A very
    >unusual "accident" took place with the previous WIRE mission which
    >was supposed to do a complete IR survey. So one working hypothesis
    >is whether or not missions may be "sabotaged" to prevent an increase
    >in our IR radiation knowledge.

    This strikes me as almost self-refuting. A system so ubiquitous would
    hardly use so blunt an instrument as *destruction* of probes, when it isn't
    that much harder to send us back misleading and soothing false data.

    Damien Broderick

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