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|    johnny1a.again@gmail.com to Mr Anderson    |
|    Re: Interstellar Mutual Assured Destruct    |
|    03 Nov 17 20:37:24    |
      On Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 6:38:20 PM UTC-5, 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?              You don't need the super-super-superweapons.              Depending on your tech assumptions, two inhabited planets can knock each other       out with nothing more sophisticated than plain old nuclear bombs, in large       numbers. The issue is your delivery system, which in turn depends, as I said,       on your tech        assumptions for the setting.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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