Re: Pentagon to Shoot down Spy Sat

Sylvia Else <sylvia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:> Sylvia Else <sylvia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> :
:> :So I'll accept that most of the material won't become a long term
:> :threat, but some of it can.
:> :
:>
:> Yes, and when you let go of a pencil all the molecules in it might
:> coincidentally be moving in the same direction and it might fall up.
:>
:
:I don't think that's possible unless you're thinking in terms of the QM
:uncertainty in a pencil's momentum attribute.
:

If they're all heading in random directions, there is some small but
finite possibility that they could all head in the same direction.

:> Pretty unlikely, though...
:
:The probability levels are, to use an Irishism, incomparably different.
:

Not so much, no.

That's sort of the point...

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