za16ao@sdccsu3.UUCP (12/02/83)
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When I was 12 years old I read a book by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
and became "enlightened". Of course, the answer to an arms race was to
expand into space! We were at Engdahl's so-called critical point, where
we must either expand into space or blow our selves to smithereens.
Since then, I've had a lot of years to think about it. Space is not how
you avert a nuclear war. Space is what you do to divert your
technological itchiness *after* you're no longer building bombs.
But we have to get to that point first.
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