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|    eripe to Mr Anderson    |
|    Re: Interstellar Mutual Assured Destruct    |
|    07 May 17 18:49:33    |
      From: eripe.dk@gmail.com              On Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 6:38:20 AM UTC+7, Mr Anderson wrote:       > Ok, so I had a brake from science fiction related topics, but today a       thouhgt came to me: If we have a two planets, in two solar systems, a few       lightyears apart from each other, and they have specialized relativistic speed       spacecrafts serving as        interstellar RKVs, and they are precise enough to hit the enemy planet in       enemy's system, could this mean a MAD but on truly space scale?       > Also, what could be a countermeasure to dense objects travelling at 0.95 c?       Because if there is such thing, it's not MAD anymore. An, at last, how could       the attacked system detect incoming missiles, when there are many possible       angles of attack? Could        there be a plausible justification for spies that observe the situation and       send signal to mothersystem if they see launch, so they can launch their       missiles?              Charles Stross had this scenario in either Singularity Sky or Iron Sunrise.       A world would keep weapons like this as a deterrent, hidden in the kupier belt.              Also need to mention the old prisoners dilemma.       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma              And you *must* read "Remembrance of Earth's Past" triology       Start with "The three body problem"              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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