Re: Asteroid/Earth collision and SDI. A connection ?

"GatherNoMoss" <saints2060@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I wonder about SDI and how stubbornly it was pushed upon us by Reagan
and also
by the fact that subsequent Presidents, including Clinton, did not
try to cancel this expensive and
"controversial" project.

Clinton did far more than merely decline to cancel the program. He started
it back up again after it had previously been shut down. Which is difficult
to reconcile with the popular notion that SDI was nothing more than a
right-wing wet dream.

SDI technology is being developed primarily to enable us to destroy
or deflect this asteroid.

Put the idea of destroying the asteroid right out of your thinking. The
mass would remain, and simply would be distributed over a much broader area,
possibly setting half the world on fire. Deflection is really the only
option.

Quite clever as the
technology for both a missile
shield and a asteroid killing capability would closely overlap.

Actually, they would be quite different techologies, with little or no
overlap.

Now I wonder if our scientists are actually having their best ideas
being "beamed" into their brains
by the aliens.

?


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Regards,
Mike Combs
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By all that you hold dear on this good Earth
I bid you stand, Men of the West!
Aragorn


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