Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekecs!shark!philb From: philb@shark.UUCP (Philip Biehl) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Space station? Message-ID: <1402@shark.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 13:01:08 EDT Article-I.D.: shark.1402 Posted: Mon Aug 1 13:01:08 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Aug-83 10:20:59 EDT Lines: 12 Able to knock down ICBMs screaming down at 20,000 mph, saving us from nuclear holocaust, eh?? Did you ever think what such space based lasers could do to ground targets such as cities? X-ray, ultrviolet (ultraviolent), and infrared lasers can do just as terrible, if not worse, things to the human body as nuclear weapons. Not to mention particle beams. I don't see that these kind of space based weapons are any better that anything we have come up with so far.......... Waiting, Phil Biehl