At 04:56 PM 4/6/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >>A lot of these struck me as desparate attempts by the bomb designers to >>find *something* useful to do with the damned things besides pray that
>>they sit in their silos, rusting, and are never, never used. > >Yes, that's about right... > I think that is grossly unfair. They all-of-a-sudden had a several-order-of-magnitude change in the cost of explosions, and as applied scientists, looked for beneficial applications. Fact is, if the sheeple weren't so ignorant/afraid, peaceful, clean uses of nukes could benefit, e.g., excavating canals at a fraction of the cost/time of conventional work. This is economics & physics, with politics smothering the whole affair. --- "Of what use is a new borne babe?" -Faraday
