Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: We need the arms race Message-ID: <222@talcott.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 18:23:42 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.222 Posted: Thu Jan 10 18:23:42 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 00:36:54 EST References: <734@loral.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 21 From the anonymous poster at loral.uucp: > Who cares about the arms race? I was born in 1947 and we had the bomb. > Since 1953 both the Soviets and the US have had the bomb. No one has > ever pushed the button. > > When I was going to school we had weekly air raid drills and all > students had to get under their chairs. Both countries have had ICBM > missles since 1957 on land and sea. No one has pushed the button yet. This reminds me of a joke I heard: There was a guy who had terminal cancer. He was a really wild guy, so he decided to end it all with a bang: by jumping out of a plane without a parachute. He asked is good friend, who was a skydiver, to go with him (his friend was allowed a parachute). Anyway, on the climactic day, they went up in the plane and finally jumped out. About twenty seconds above the ground, the friend asked, "What's does it feel like to be commiting suicide?" To which the guy replied, "Well, it's pretty good so far!" --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk