Re: Ada and the NMD

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <slrn9petoj.bl.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben
Randhol says...
>The problem with this Star Wars project is that it does not have a good
>reputation outside of USA. Neither do Mr Bush for that matter. One of

You seem to think things are different here...

>the new things I read is that the missiles, if shot down, will fall over
>Europe. Not something we are very happy about I might say...

My understanding is that most of the ICBMs that the US and Russia had were aimed
at each other over the North Pole. If it "lands" anywhere ("lands" /=
"explodes", btw), it would probably be in Canada. 

Some of the reactions I hear from abroad about this are almost as silly as the
Star Wars program itself. Almost. There *are* good reasons for being against it,
but no one seems very interested in those reasons. A lot of it reminds me of the
protests at Cape Kenedy when they were launching that nuclear powered space
probe. Everyone was worried that it might explode and contaminate things. Never
mind that they got exposed to more harmful radiation standing out in the Florida
sun with their plackards than anyone would ever see if it exploded in the air.
It seems like whenever someone mentions the word "nuclear", people just get
stupid.

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