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   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   Tim Bruening wrote:   
   >   
   > Merrick Baldelli wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:08:13 -0800, Tim Bruening   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> But surely there would be enough asteroids and bombs of the right type to   
   >>> allow Sheridan's trick to be attempted again.   
   >>         Once something of this nature is used in battle, you can't   
   >> guarantee that you're going to get the same results twice.   
   >   
   > However, the Minbari were kicking the Earth Alliance's butt!  Sheridan's   
   > tactic of exploding concealed nukes was the only one that had   
   > succeeded!  I   
   > would therefore have expected it to be used again and again by a   
   > desperate   
   > Earth Alliance military, even if success couldn't be guaranteed.  After   
   > all,   
   > the Earth Alliance had nothing to lose, since it was already losing.   
      
      
   	They may well have tried it many times. It didn't work a second time   
   (since he didn't JUST "explode concealed nukes", he "lured them in with   
   a fake distress call" and THEN nuked them) because they probably simply   
   ignored distress calls from anywhere near Earth territory.   
      
      
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